05 Nov 2002, 09:40, MIKE ROSS (1:167/133), wrote to Matt Mc_Carthy:

Hi MIKE.

 MM>> Shame you can't shine something inside a computer and have all 
 MM>> the "bad parts" light up for you...   :-))

 MR> Apparently with an IR camera, hot parts show up and cold parts 
 MR> show up. The theory being that cold parts are dead... well it works 
 MR> for humans!

Thanks, will have to do some 'research'!  
I'd completely forgotten the Heat aspect of IR.

I've been using my digital camera to 'view' remote control units to see if
they put out IR.  Works great for that.  

Now I've got four dead VCRs, at least one of which has some VERY hot
capacitors in the PS section.  Some non-flash pictures in the dark might
prove interesting!


     Thanks, M.

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