"Roy J. Tellason" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (06 Nov 02  20:06:36)
 --- on the topic of "BIRDBOX"

 RJT> sometimes they'd get hot enough to burn ya!  So eventually I found a
 RJT> PTC thermistor in my junk box and wired it into a probe that'd fit my
 RJT> meter (dual banana plug & all).  And used _it_ to check those chips
 RJT> first,  before I'd put my finger on them.
 RJT> Not as elegant as an IR camera,  but one hell of a lot cheaper!   :-)

I think most electronic cameras are sensitive to IR to some extent...
(with the lights off of course) since to a CCD a photon of any colour is
still a photon. I think a cheap alternative may be those simple camera
modules used to wire into a circuit.

 Mike
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