Not necessarily the warmest - you have to allow for the emissivity
of objects. I don't know a figure for air, but polished metal and
glass can vary a lot - a dab of paint of white correction fluid
provides a more reliable target (assuming your thermometer can
target a small enough area).
Steve
> I think the generic IR thermometer/gun is going to respond to the warmest
> temp
> item in the lens field because that's going to be the
> black body generating the most heat. And that warmest source is going to be
> the anode for ceramics looking down, or perhaps the
> body adjacent the anode for something like a horizontal tube with a big anode
> cooler on it.
>
> 73, Jeff ACØC
> www.ac0c.com
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