[RFI] UV vs IR binoculars for arc's on utility poles

[Charles Plunk]

Does everyone agree with this, that UV vision will work better than IR 
for possibly seeing tiny arc's on utility poles?

There are a lot of options out there, in a consumer price range, for IR 
such as the Creative Night Owl binocular/camera for 189 bucks targeted 
to mainly hunters. But for UV binoculars it seems more limited. There 
are binoculars that specify UV and not pricey at all but few that have a 
camera. Don't really need a camera but would be neat for my webpage :-).

My main source is still gone and fairly high confidence that it is 
repaired. But a much weaker intermittent source remains and at this time 
think its on the same pole. If I cannot see it also with my current 
binoculars may consider one of the above.

73

Chuck
AF4O

Update webpage; 
https://www.qsl.net/af4o/Powerline%20RFI%20QSL.net%20Webpage/Arc%20Webpage.html



On 4/16/21 10:51 PM, AA5CT via RFI wrote:
> UV will show up corona; Infrared will show 'hot' hardware, but
> not sparking or arcing as UV does.
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> There was an article on this some years back. It was quite informative.
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> Maybe search for same?
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> de AA5CT Jim
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