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The Settings tab is shown below: 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Settings tab, it is possible to: 

Figure 38: Settings Tab

 

 

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Select either ˚F, ˚C or K 

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Adjust the reflected temperature correction 

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Adjust the target object emissivity 

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Adjust the required capture time and date 

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Add comments to the image 

 

The Properties tab is shown below: 

 

 

 

Figure 43: Properties Tab

 

 

This tab displays important file information. 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Summary of Contents for HSI3000 Series

Page 1: ...d of view Caution use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified in this document may result in hazardous laser radiation exposure Class 2 laser product Complies with IEC EN 60825 1 2001 Conforms to USA 21 CFR 1040 10 and 1040 11 except for deviations pursuant to laser notice No 50 dated July 26 2001 Wahl Instruments Inc 234 Old Weaverville Road Asheville NC...

Page 2: ...age Adjustment 10 3 4 6 1 Level and Span Definitions 10 3 4 7 Menu Operation and Functions 11 3 4 7 1 Measurement Settings 11 3 4 7 2 Camera Settings 12 3 4 7 3 Image Browser Menu 12 3 4 7 4 Clock Calendar Settings 12 3 4 8 Using the Laser Pointer 13 3 4 9 Advanced User Functions 13 3 4 9 1 Brightness Contrast Definitions 13 3 5 TECHNICAL 15 3 5 1 Field Of View 15 4 THERMAL IMAGE TRANSFER FROM HSI...

Page 3: ...se you will find the standard items as shown in figure 1 Carrying Case USB SD Card Reader and USB Extender Cable Rechargeable Battery Regional Mains Adapters HSI3000 Thermal Imager 128 MB SD Card inside 12V Power Supply CD Rom Lens Cap USB Cable for Connection to a PC Figure 1 Contents of the HSI3000 Multi Purpose Thermal Imager Inspect all the items If any item is damaged or missing please notify...

Page 4: ...4 hours The battery indicator appears on the screen when the imager is switched on It has the following four stages and each stage corresponds to approximately one hour of operation 4 hours 3 hours 2 hours 1 hour Figure 3 Battery Indicator Levels CAUTION If the HSI3000 s battery indicator flashes the battery power is running low and it needs to be charged or replaced within 10 minutes 2 2 2 Using ...

Page 5: ...s AC Power Supply 3 Operating the HSI3000 Series Thermal Imager 3 1 Hardware The HSI3000 system is designed for use as a handheld thermal imager Thermal images stored on the supplied memory card can be transferred to a PC or laptop computer using the supplied memory card reader PC software is supplied for viewing and analysis of saved thermal images Laser Pointer Aperture Power Button Lens Laser P...

Page 6: ... the calibration procedure After start up these clicks continue but become much less frequent For best measurement results the imager should be switched on at least 5 minutes before use Figure 6 Switching on the HSI3000 3 3 Information Splash Screen The HSI3000 s splash screen appears for approximately 20 seconds when the imager is switched on It displays the time and date so the user can check th...

Page 7: ... not be accurate Rotating the lens in a clockwise direction from front view focuses the imager at longer distances up to infinity Rotating the lens in the opposite direction focuses the imager at shorter distances down to a minimum of 30cm Rotate the lens until the image has the best definition and has the sharpest contrast Focused 129 F 54 C measured Not focused 114 8 F 46 C measured The and shap...

Page 8: ... 4 for more information The directional buttons are used to 1 move the position of the measurement cursors 2 adjust the level span brightness and contrast 3 navigate around the menus See Section 3 4 5 for more information about the directional buttons and see Section 3 4 6 1 for definitions of level and span and Section 3 4 9 1 for definitions of brightness and contrast The menu button opens the m...

Page 9: ...to save an image direct to a PC via the USB cable 3 4 4 3 Hot Button 3 Direction Buttons Control Hot button 3 selects either the SP or SPX temperature measurement cursor or either B C thermal image brightness contrast when in auto mode or L S temperature level and span when in manual mode The 4 direction buttons are then used to adjust the position of the selected cursor the level span or the brig...

Page 10: ...rectional buttons control the movement of the highlighted cursor and adjustment of the highlighted option See Section 3 4 7 Up Left Right Right Down Figure 13 Directional Buttons 3 4 6 Image Adjustment 3 4 6 1 Level and Span Definitions When hot button 4 is set to manual the HSI3000 s image settings can be manually controlled by adjusting the level and span When hot button 3 shows L S the right an...

Page 11: ... available to take you back one menu sub level while Hot button 4 is always available to exit the menus completely Figure 16 shows an example screenshot form the Measurement Settings menu with the highlighted cursor on the emissivity adjustor 3 4 7 1 Measurement Settings Figure 16 Menu Operation Emissivity The user can select the emissivity for the material being imaged To achieve correct temperat...

Page 12: ...an select one of four possible color options Rainbow Ironbow Grayscale monochrome and HC Rainbow high contrast Auto Power Turns the imager off if it has been left on without a button press for 20 minutes Factory Settings For the convenience of the user many settings are persistent i e the settings and values are remembered when the HSI3000 is switched off Selecting the factory settings function re...

Page 13: ...ow green color see Figure 18 Note that the brightness of the image does not refer to the brightness of the screen For a grayscale image brighter means whiter and for a rainbow image yellow is brighter than blue and red is brighter than yellow The contrast is the amount of the color bar that the image uses and it uses the whole color bar by default Figure 18 Brightness Contrast Definitions The targ...

Page 14: ...and yellow in the rainbow example Decreasing the thermal brightness uses more of the lower half See the examples in Figure 18 for more information Figure 19 These 6 figures show the effect of increasing and decreasing the auto mode s brightness and contrast The practical advantage of this is that the user can completely control the appearance of the image without having to adjust the level and spa...

Page 15: ... Field of View The HSI3000 and HSI3002 have a 20 x 15 Field of View and a 160 x 120 19200 pixel detector Figure 20 Field of View Figure 21 19200 Pixel Array The HSI3003 has a 9 1 x 6 8 Field of View and a 160 x 120 19200 pixel detector ...

Page 16: ...ader into a USB port on the Windows 2000 XP PC using the extender USB cable if required 5 Follow the card reader device driver s installation instructions if prompted by Windows 6 Either open My Computer and copy the iri files from the SD card to the PC recommended or leave the SD card in place while the Wahl HSI3000 Series Imager PC software is running and open the files directly from the SD card...

Page 17: ...be installed into the following path C Program Files Wahl Wahl HSI3000 Series Imager The above path and name can be changed during the installation but it is advisable to leave it as the default The installation will also put a Shortcut Icon onto your PC s desktop to allow quick and easy start up of the software 5 3 Operating Wahl HSI3000 Series Imager PC Software Launch the Wahl HSI3000 Series Im...

Page 18: ...miliar Windows menu items such as File Edit View Tools and Help 5 3 1 1 Menus 5 3 1 1 1 File The File menu allows the following Open Save Save As Revert Excel Output Recent Files Exit Figure 27 The Menu Exit 1 Open Uses Windows Explorer see Figure 28 to open a iri file from your computer ...

Page 19: ...window the image the color bar and the thermal histogram Overlaid on the histogram is the movable span selector which adjusts the level and span of the thermal image The span selector can be moved by clicking in the middle of the histogram and dragging left or right The span can be increased and decreased by clicking towards the ends of the span selector where the max and min values of the span ar...

Page 20: ...the application window or the thermal image into the Windows clipboard This picture can then be pasted into a picture editor or Microsoft office document 2 Copy to Bitmap This saves a screen capture of the application window or the thermal image as a bitmap image using a dialog box similar to Figure 28 above 5 3 1 1 3 View The View menu allows the following features most of which are also availabl...

Page 21: ...ng in the location that the cursor is required When the mouse cursor is moved over a measurement cursor the mouse cursor appears as a hand When this happens the measurement cursors can be moved around by dragging them and can be removed by double clicking them 4 Measurement Cursors This toggles the display of the measurement cursors on the thermal image This does not delete the cursors it temporar...

Page 22: ...n on the zoom pan control see Figure 40 Figure 36 Area Select 7 8 Isotherms This toggles the two isotherms which can be used to highlight areas of the same temperature in the image A red and or blue semi transparent block appears on the histogram which can be moved and adjusted in the same way as the image span selector Every object in the image with a temperature within the range of the isotherms...

Page 23: ...ndependently or by dragging the intersection The short green intensity plot lines on the thermal intensity plots can be moved to analyze temperatures in the plots Double click an intensity plot line to make the corresponding cross section line up with it 10 Options This toggles the display of the options window The options window has four tabs across the top and it can be embedded in the applicati...

Page 24: ...area of the image to zoom by dragging the green box in the pan control using a mouse The Cursors tab is shown below In the Cursors tab it is possible to Figure 41 Cursors Tab View the temperature values of the measurement cursors and also their pixel numbers from the origin bottom left of image and the emissivity value associated with the cursors Delete cursors from the image by selecting them in ...

Page 25: ... 38 Settings Tab Select either F C or K Adjust the reflected temperature correction Adjust the target object emissivity Adjust the required capture time and date Add comments to the image The Properties tab is shown below Figure 43 Properties Tab This tab displays important file information ...

Page 26: ...er Comms Config to open the window in Figure 44 below Select the USB Serial Port COM X from the list click Test Port and then click OK Figure 44 Port Selection 2 Capture from imager After setting up the Imager Comms Config select this to take a new image from the imager The HSI3000 imager must be switched on and connected via the USB cable provided to a USB port on your computer The file transfer ...

Page 27: ... 43 Toolbar 1 Open See Section 5 3 1 1 1 2 Save See Section 5 3 1 1 1 3 Capture from Imager See Section 5 3 1 1 4 4 View Options See Section 5 3 1 1 3 5 Toggle Measurement Cursor list See Section 5 3 1 1 3 6 Toggle Measurement Cursors See Section 5 3 1 1 3 7 Toggle Hot Cold Cursors See Section 5 3 1 1 3 8 Toggle Area Select See Section 5 3 1 1 3 9 Toggle Blue Isotherm See Section 5 3 1 1 3 10 Togg...

Page 28: ...mber of captured images e Totally manually control the process 1 0 Items required 1 1 1 x HSI3000 Thermal imaging camera 1 2 1 x USB cable 1 3 1 x PC with Wahl imager software installed 2 0 Set up instructions 2 1 Connect the cable to the PC and the thermal imaging camera 2 2 Turn on the PC and the thermal imaging camera 2 3 Click on the 3000 series imager icon on the PC 3 0 Sequence recording set...

Page 29: ...hieved by entering the required minutes seconds in their respective boxes For example in this case 10 seconds 3 3 2 For capturing images over a specific Capture Period of time enter the required period in hrs minutes and seconds For example in this case 10 minutes Please also remember to tick the Capture Period H M S box 3 4 0 Sequence selection Chose the sequence recording required by ticking and...

Page 30: ... soot 0 940000 Glass polished plate 0 940000 Paint oil 0 930000 Brick red 0 930000 Paper white bond 0 920000 Concrete 0 920000 Soil dry 0 910000 Plaster rough coat 0 900000 Wood planed oak 0 900000 Glazed earthenware 0 890000 Snow granular 0 880000 Glazed Silica 0 870000 Cuprous Oxide at 38 C 0 860000 Emery Corundum 0 850000 Snow 0 850000 Stainless oxidized at 800 C 0 840000 Oxidized Iron at 500 C...

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Page 32: ...y Name and address Contact Details HSI3000 Series Thermal Imager Serial Number This can be found printed under the slots sockets cover Imager and PC Software Version installed Software version number can be found while software is running from PC Help About Wahl HSI3000 Series Imager Description of Technical Fault 234 Old Weaverville Road Asheville NC 28804 800 421 2853 828 658 3131 828 658 0728 w...

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