Uni-T UTi320E - Page 1
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author: Architector
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 09, 2023, 08:09:08 pm
content: Hello,I‘m Till and new to the forum. As an architect, i‘ve made hundreds of thermal inspections of houses - years ago. Meanwhile, I‘ve sold e-cigs online and now will go back to work in my professionWhen I did those thermals once upon a time, i‘ve rented professional, big Flirs. I always had good luck, as the temperatures had always been perfect (cold) for my timewindow. Now, 12 years later, the cold days are rare here in germany and so I need to be more flexible. I also want to inspect heatings etc.It seems, there has been some positive development in IR-cams. Such as a good old Flir E4 with the Mr. Bud‘s hackgrade to E8 f.e. And also some intresting devices on Alibaba. I found Uni-T and the UTi320E sounds nice. Does anybody already have some experience with this device? The pictures are worthless without a good software. With the Flir Software, I was able to analyse pictures and make an export into a text editing file. It was pain to format those reports to my needs and I hope, Flir has made some progress in the last decade. I wonder, if there is somethin useable for the pics out of those Uni-T devices. Does anybody know? Or is there a software out there, that can handle the files produced by Uni-T cams? Thanks for sharing knowledge here. I am willed ti do so, too - if I can…

author: markb1980
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2023, 08:04:59 pm
content: Quote from: Architector on January 09, 2023, 08:09:08 pmIf you need a good software for eporting you can use Flir, Hikmicro, Testo and Fluke. Guide is OK-ish but quite limited and everything else is a dessaster.Infiray change dates and timestamps on the images and do some other wired things and the software of Uni-T depend on the model but none is good as far as I know. If you need a cheap but well working camera I would suggest a Hikmicro B20, Pocket2, B10 (a friend of mine run a thermography business in serbia with that cameras quite successfully and without issues) and if you want higher resolution then have a look at a Hikmicro M30.The 256x192 resolution is aprox. 1/3 less then 320x240 but if you send me your email as PM I can share some orig. images with you so that you can play arround with them in the analysis software.Quote from: Architector on January 09, 2023, 08:09:08 pmUni-T does not build there cameras alone - the UTi260B is made by Infiray but the UTi320E is made by some other brand based on the 9Hz refresh rate. I have seen somewhere the software quite short but it looked more like a image organicer then a analysis tool. So reporting would be probably a big issue.Click throuh the russian reviews on youtube - one showed the software for 1 or 2 minutes. They even call the software picture viewer which should tell you all!Another interesting fact is that Hikmicro delivers even the low-end entry level models with a calibration cert. which could be for you important.

author: Architector
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 12, 2023, 03:21:45 pm
content: Oh! Maybe I pushed the trigger too quick. But I still can cancel, as UTI320e is out of stock at the moment. Did I understand right, I can not use Flir software to analyse UTI320e made pictures?I will check Hicmicro.Will send you PN for testing 256x192 res pics.Thank you very much!

author: Architector
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 12, 2023, 03:30:57 pm
content: Ups, Hikmicro M30 ist 4 x the price of UTi320e

author: markb1980
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2023, 04:14:23 pm
content: No you can't!You have to use Flir Thermal Studio for Flir images, Hikmicro Analyzer for Hikmicro Images and whatever other prop. software for the other brands. You have a P2 Pro, Guide PC210, Infiray C200, Cat S62 and Hikmicro Pocket 2 and none of the images I can edit with the software of another tool.Infiray manages even to make image-files of the P2 Pro incompatible with the images from the C200 so that I have to use 2 different tools for analysis from Infiray.So there is no way you can use Thermal Studio with any other brand then Flir cameras or the Cat phones.

author: markb1980
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2023, 04:27:57 pm
content: Quote from: Architector on January 12, 2023, 03:30:57 pmYes the M30 is a prof. tool with even higher resolution (384x288), manual focus and many other things. This is no cheap entry-level imager and more a professional tool. In terms of flir I would say it's between Ex and Exx series.If you want a good price / performance ratio I would stay with a B20, B10 or Pocket2.