There are two different types of night vision. Light amplification and
thermal imaging. Since the power company used IR to find the problem,
the devices used were likely thermal imaging devices. Light amplifiers
must have some light to work, and I don't believe they pick up thermal
emissions. Many consumer devices are light amplifiers.
David Wilburn
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Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote:
Fred,
Was this at night? Do you think consumer grade ones would work?
Tnx es 73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:58 am, Fred Jensen wrote:
Night vision goggles work quite well in some cases. I mentioned it to
a friend in the Guard and the 1st Sgt at the local armory decided to
have a short training session. The troops spotted the two perpetrator
insulators within 2 mins just by looking around. PG&E came out with
their IR device in about a week, and it was fixed tFred K6DGW
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