Fluke TIR 32

[measter (Mark Easter, BSME, MSc)]

Chris,
You are right, I’m sure, about the total cost being more for the T300 if you get the software. And the lenses from FLIR were cut in price by about 60% as soon as the T32 was released/announced, so that tells you something about the margin and competition.
As far as price, I was comparing my best FLIR discount to the announced T32 price - so that’s not a fair comparison.

I can tell you that I looked at a T32 and the images and I am jealous compared to the equally priced camera that I bought 6 months ago
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Like I said, if I were looking to buy now, it would be a T300 or a T32.

I had no idea that anyone would actually put money down on a product that was being shipped yet.

Regards,
Mark

@topher

Instead of ignoring facts like $3,000 software charges and $2,000 lens calibration charges (FLIR) I was just attempting to put information out into the public so that those who purchased this camera in advance would feel better about its release.

The T300 is not the same price at the Ti32, it’s $1,000 more and the software (that’s worth anything) is considerably more on top of that, not to mention lenses. Fluke has gone out of their way to put $20K worth of camera into a $9K machine and all FLIR can do is repackage it’s old models and cut price. Even when FLIR lowers their price to compete, they have been found weighed, measured, and wanting.

(COMMERCIAL) ------->>> Fluke was started in 1948 by John Fluke Sr., a friend and roommate of David Packard, future co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, when both were employed at General Electric. Danaher Corporation bought Fluke on June 1, 1998 and since then have they’ve had three (3) recalls, including all product lines across all of Danaher’s acquisitions. That doesn’t come from releasing product that may be faulty. This delay is to make sure that this camera is perfect in every way. I know you wouldn’t want your IR camera less than that, right?

[dsorge (David Sorge)]

@measter

I had no idea that anyone would actually put money down on a product that was being shipped yet.

In my case, the distributer was told “a few weeks” when I put money down back in early September. I just cancelled my TIR32 a few days ago and I’m awaiting a refund.

After more than 500 IR inspections, I’ve yet to encounter a situation where a different lens would have saved the day OR a situation when I needed some magic software to do my job. In fact, having to open images in different software adds unnecessary time to the inspection process and I can count the times I needed to open mine on 1 hand. When my B60 spits out an image, its ready for the report with no need for tweaking. The cameras firmware is far more important than software. Quite frankly…a USB port and video capability (which Fluke lacks) is far more valuable. I’m sticking with FLIR.