Quick Start Guide; Detecting A Temperature; Procedure - FLIR GF300 User Manual

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Quick Start Guide

9.1 Detecting a temperature

CAUTION
In furnace and other high-temperature applications, you must mount the heatshield on the camera. Using
the camera in furnace and other high-temperature applications without the heatshield can cause damage
to the camera.
For instructions on how to mount the heatshield, see 16.12 Mounting the heatshield, page 54.

9.1.1 Procedure

Follow this procedure to get started right away:
1. Charge the battery for four hours, or until the green battery condition LED glows contin-
uously, before starting the camera for the first time.
Note Do this at room temperature, with the camera turned off.
2. Insert an SD Memory Card into a card slot
3. To turn on the camera, push the
Note When you turn on the camera, a mechanical cooler will begin cooling down the
infrared detector. The cooler has a sound that resembles a subdued motor. This sound
is normal. The cooling procedure will typically take 7 minutes for FLIR GF300, FLIR
GF309, FLIR GF320, and 10 minutes for FLIR GF306. In high ambient temperatures
the cooling times may increase 30% or more.
4. Turn the mode wheel to
5. For furnace and other high-temperature applications, mount the heatshield on the
camera. You must also enter the correct external optics transmission value of the heat-
shield into the camera. The external optics transmission value is printed on a label on
the inside of the heatshield. You enter the external optics transmission value in the ob-
ject parameters dialog on the Edit tab.
When you remove the heatshield you must reset the external optics transmission to
1.0.
6. Push the temperature range button, then do the following:
6.1. Move the joystick up/down to choose a suitable temperature range for your
object.
6.2. Push the temperature range button to confirm and leave the setup mode.
7. Aim the camera towards the object of interest.
8. Autofocus the camera by pushing the center of the
9. Push the button.
10. Move the joystick left/right to the Edit tab.
11. Move the joystick up/down to Add spot.
12. Push the joystick. A spotmeter is now displayed in the middle of the screen. The tem-
perature is displayed in the result table in the top left corner of the screen.
13. To save an image directly, push and hold the
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button.
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button for more than one second.
button.
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