Show and Tell Time

Its not a reflection. what you see is what is going on…

For the most part you need an IR Camera to see this.

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Ron

I don’t have an IR camera, and can not see what you keep babbling on about.

Or, who cares?

**OK:mrgreen: **I have a very nice FLIR B2 Camera I can sell you for $ 3,500:mrgreen:

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Ron

So Ron, after two days and no correct guesses, do you think maybe you could fill us all in as to what that is?

No kidding.

Maybe its a ghost.

If it isn’t water , it is probally a rat fart

Nope.

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Ron

He wants to sell you a camera…

OK:mrgreen: I have a very nice FLIR B2 Camera I can sell you for $ 3,500:mrgreen:

Now do you understand??

Ok lets have answer ,if not water or leaking air from a duct or reflection from outside or a ghost not much left is there. Unless a tree branch but then it would be a reflection .

Ron, you’ve taken this to the point its not fun any more. Tell us what it is.

Careful Mark, Ron will come back and say you have a smirk on your face :wink:

It’s really amazing how much sh!t you try to stir. So that’s the one thing you do well…lol

Kudos! :smiley:

OK…You guys are great. As I stated in the first post this is out of the norm for most of you.
[size=2]Rick Maday[/size] you were very close in Post # 14.
What is this?
I was doing a DRY-WOOD termite treatment job on a hard wood floor the other day.
I injected the termite hole with A blast of compressed air. 100 percent moisture-free liquid air. This stuff is very cold… If you turn the can upside down it comes out liquid air…
The void in the hard wood flooring that the termites had excavated was now full of liquid air and under pressure. [size=2]Robert Elliott[/size] You were onto something in post # 15 You saw the outer areas of the hard wood floor filling up with the liquid air…
When I pulled the injector out of the hole the liquid air started to come back out of this little tiny hole 1/16 of an inch. the pressure from the void was blowing out termites. That was funny to see these termites being ejected out of the hole from the pressure. In Robert Elliott’s Re-post of the IR Image # 15. You can see a small dot in the upper left. One very cold Dry-wood Termite. I use the IR Camera and the liquid air to see just how far the termites have excavated the interior of a board. The compressed cold liquid air provides a great DELTA.T
Thanks for looking guys this was fun…

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Ron

Haven’t looked at replies - remember your post a while back about pressurized water in termite infestations. So that would be my guess.

Great info. Ron!! :slight_smile:

Which illustrates why examining all the evidence, including the regular view is important when trying to interpret a thermal scan.

Since you say it isn’t water that removes plumbing/radient heat.

So we need something else that could display fluid behavior. Which based on just the four images I’d say an air leak in an under floor plenum. Probably A/C given the temperature differential. But this is just a guess.

PS. Now that I’ve read the answer I can see the light. Or the cold air as it were. Interesting shots.

LOL your right that was a good one

Really? An IR camera can not see air infiltration? HVAC Duct leakage? I’m intrigued. As you say, explain why an IR camera can see cold compressed air and NOT an AC air leak? Thermal is thermal isn’t it?

pdoane,

He turned the can upside down so it blew out the** liquid** from the can into the termite tract not the air like you would use to blow dirt off your camera lense. What he showed was the cold liquid blowing out the hole .

Infrared will show the effects of HVAC air leakage due to the cooling/heating of the exposed insulation surface, wall or whatever is near by.

**What you see With an air leak is not the air. but you see the effects the moving cold air has on the materials it moves accross. **
Like a door jam. You see the areas of the door jam and an out line of the air moving across the jams.

**To see air or a vapor gas you would need one of FLIR other cameras. **
**like the GF Series](http://www.flir.com/thermography/APAC/en/content/?id=13954) Imager. **

What we see in the images i posted is liquid air. key is ( liquid ).

**As the liquid air in my images turns from liquid to vapor you can see the little eruption. **

**Hope this helps. **

Best

Ron

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