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Ircon’s new Stinger thermal imaging camera is designed to deliver the highest quality real-time video temperature representation of your process. By combining the latest in digital camera technology with uncooled Focal Plane Array sensor technology and heavy-duty enclosures, the IRCON Stinger performs exceptionally – and survives long-term – in any industrial process control application.
The Stinger thermal imaging camera is highly intuitive and can be easily integrated into your process control system. Mount the IRCON Stinger anywhere you need it to capture on-line process temperature measurements.
The Stinger thermal imaging system is packaged for industrial applications and includes: the Stinger infrared camera with focusing lens and auto-switching power supply, a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 based computer and digital frame grabber, application software, connection cables and operators manual.
The Stinger Thermal Imaging Software
Whether you're running the video output directly from the thermal imager to a control room for continuous monitoring, or sending data through the digital interface to either the Stinger Image Analysis Thermal Imaging Software or one of our digital interface toolkits (to allow you to interface with programs such as National Instruments Labview), the system will allow for flexibility for your application. IRCON produces various application specific thermal imaging software for certain industries.
Fully user-configurable, the Stinger thermal imaging software lets you set up, display, and archive thermal images. And because the software was written for the familiar Windows® platform, you will have all your favourite tools readily available, including those for drawing, zooming, printing and changing colour palettes.
Simply begin your image capture, position the cursor to your area of interest, and customize your view on the fly. Optimize your display using 5 standard colour palettes (including grayscale). Or draw circles, rectangles, or free-form shapes around target zones to monitor hot or cold spots in your process – and then “show all” or highlight only select zones for analysis in real-time. These areas of interest (AOI’s) can be keyed to alarms and can ultimately be used as outputs for process control purposes. The Stinger also supports continuous archiving of data from ROI’s for displaying offline or for exporting to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft® Excel. Average, maximum and minimum temperatures can be continuously archived into the trend file.
Saving and retrieving your thermal image data is easy too. Each saved file contains both setup data for the sensor/processor and image data so that when you load a file, PC settings are loaded too. This makes reconfiguration of previously saved setup information (regions of interest, calibration information, palette selection, and temperature range) automatic. This function is ideal for applications where two or more different processes are running on the same line since it eliminates downtime.
Cool – even where it is hot.
The Stinger thermal imager looks impressive in any environment and its robust design enables performance under any industrial hazard. Install the Stinger with confidence for the following applications and more:
• Automotive: engine testing and surface defect detection
• Glass: automotive and architectural glass, LCD fabrication, and fibre-optic applications
• Plastic Films: bag sealing, blown film and film processes
• Plastic Thermoforming: appliance extrusion
• Steel: Ladle/torpedo car monitoring
• Semiconductors: on-line metrology and setup/diagnostics for machine
