What do you estimate is the finest image resolution you can resolve, in the sense of how small a part or zone can you see the hot spot of? The FLIR is good, but it's insanely expensive. It's variable focus, and you can just about touch a part with the lens and focus.
Here's a 1206 dissipating half a watt:
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and here are some MSOP-8s
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John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
Your images are much better than mine. I need to read the manual to learn how to focus it.
I have no place to post images. I have Dropbox, but it belongs to my client and, when I tried to create a personal Dropbox account, it somehow allowed them to look at my personal files. Not good.
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