Timeline for Can an infrared thermometer (IR gun) be used to measure the ambient room temperature?
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| S Sep 30, 2016 at 12:43 | history | suggested | user64795 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
typography corrected
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 12:06 | history | edited | Arsenal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added a paragraph about the measuring principle of the used sensor
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 11:00 | comment | added | Arsenal | @ViralEmbedded well after the specified range, you will still get a reading of the temperature of the surfaces in that direction, certainly not the ambient temperature. The sensor you linked actually works with a thermopile, which requires knowledge of the ambient temperature (of the sensor element, this is not necessarily the room temperature), so internally it measures it, don't know if it is accessible though. | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | Viral Embedded | Thanks @Arsenal for response. But What happens when the distance of object/Body is more then the specified distance in the datasheet of sensor ? I agree on emissivity of air is zero. Do i need extra thermocouple/Thermistor to sense the ambient temp ? | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 9:40 | history | edited | Arsenal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added the range of µm with respect to temperature
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 9:33 | history | answered | Arsenal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |