testo 885 - Thermal imager (320 x 240 pixels, focus manual/auto, laser, 1 SuperTele lens)

Overview of applications

Preventive maintenance

Ideal for the early identification of imminent malfunctions or defects on plants and machines: Reliably record temperature increases with a thermal imager.

• Fast detection of critical thermal status (so-called HotSpots) during continuing operation
• Avoid expensive damage, downtimes and fire risks on plants and machines

• Test switching cabinets, electrical conditions, photovoltaic plants
• Evaluate heat status in low, medium and high voltage plants

• Identify wear on machines
• Test motors, bearings, shafts

Detecting structural defects and ensuring construction quality

• Detect potential building defects, prove quality and the implementation of construction measures without contact – with the help of thermal images
• Test air-tightness of windows and doors
• Locate insulation errors and cold bridges in a building shell
• Detect and visualize mould-risk areas

Professional energy consultation

• Analyze building shells, evaluate energy efficiency, identify energy-saving potential with a thermal imager from Testo
• Easy recording and documentation of energy loss from buildings
• Prove faulty insulation and cold bridges without contact, and visualize them in an infrared image
• Localize untight spots in new buildings quickly and easily in combination with Blower Door

Present and analyze building shells in an image

• Detailed thermograohy of large buildings
• Visualize thermal irregularities in a building shell – in a thermal image: The panorama assistant stitches severla recordings together to one overall image

Preventing mould formation

• Localize mould-risk areas quickly and easily: These areas are presented in red in the imager display when the imager is in humidity mode

Easy checking of heating systems and installations

• test heating and air conditioning/ventilation systems: Use a thermal imager to identify irregularities in the temperature distribution quickly and easily
• Localization of the course of heating loops in underfloor heating systems
• Testo radiators for silting
• Measure flow and return temperatures

Localize pipe ruptures

• Reliably determine pipe ruptures with the help of a thermal imager – without unnecessarily opening walls and floors
• Precise localization of leakages in underfloor heating and other inaccessible pipe systems

Locating leaks in flat roofs

• Detection of damp in roofs: Based on temperature differences (such as occur mainly in flat roofs), thermal imagers show areas on the roof with sealed-in moisture or damaged insulation

More reliability in quality assurance and production monitoring

• A Testo thermal imager supports in process control and product quality asurance
• Identify foreign bodies in production processes and anomalies in the heat distribution of components quickly and without contact
• Fast and easy monitoring of filling level in closed liquid tanks

Safe high-temperature measurement

• Measure high temperatures safely from a distance: Some of the thermal imager models from Testo even measure up to 1200 °C with the high-temperature option
• Ideal for use in industrial maintenance
• Identify wear, insulation damage and coking in furnaces and smelters
• Thermography of large furnaces and machines on one thermal image – e.g. rotary kilns in cement production

Research and development

• Identify thermal anomalies and monitor cooling and heating processes in real time
• Precisely visualize critical temperatures on circuit boards: Thanks to the finest geometric resolution of the high-quality Testo thermal imagers
• Analyze heat occurrence and conduction in circuit boards, and optimize development processes: The process analysis package offers practical features such as video recording and image sequence storage for easy analysis of thermal processes

Energy supply (production and distribution)

• Thermographic testing of energy distribution plants: With thermal imagers, you can test thermal warming from a safe distance without contact, e.g. on high-voltage lines and in transformer stations
• Non-contact testing of photovoltaic plants: Using solar thermography, module defects and installation faults can be reliably detected