1. Introduction
Thank you for choosing the X320 or X640 Thermal Imaging
Camera. With its small size, rugged design, and simplicity, you can
now focus on the job at hand, rather than the camera in your hand.
Before using this camera, please read these instructions carefully,
and retain them for future reference.
Welcome to Infrared
L-3 EOTech has long been a leader in the production and
development of militaryproducts based on infrared thermal imaging.
In an effort to make this technology more widely available, L-3
EOTech's engineers and scientists developed many unique ways of
translating infrared energy into visible imagery. Now L-3 EOTech is
providing affordable thermal imaging solutions for fire, law
enforcement, marine, security, and other commercial uses.
Infrared energy often referred to as “infrared” or “IR”, is
electromagnetic radiation that travels in a straight line through space,
similar to visible light. Although infrared shares some of the
properties of visible light, its different wavelength has several unique
characteristics. For instance, materials that are opaque to visible light
may be transparent to infrared, and vice–versa. Also, unlike visible
light, which is given off by ordinary objects only at very high
temperatures (e.g. light bulbs), long wavelength infrared (7–14 m)
is emitted by all objects at ordinary temperatures. This means
infrared is all around us all the time, even in the dark. Different
objects give off varying amounts of infrared, depending on the
temperature of the object.
