WTB Older MWIR systems - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: hyppo8
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: July 30, 2025, 04:09:51 am
content: Looking for medium wave thermal imaging systems from the early 2000's.Such as Indigo Phoenix, Merlin, Alpha, etc.Even if you have parts I would interested, feel free to reach out, thank you!

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2025, 11:09:30 am
content: Some reading for you before you buy a cooled MWIR camera….https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/thermal-camera-purchasing-the-perils-of-buying-a-cooled-camera/As to finding a MWIR camera at a good price….. sadly these cameras are not as common as LWIR cameras and so command high prices when they come onto the secondary market. A cheap “untested” MWIR camera can still be quite expensive and is no more than a paperweight if the cooler has failed.MWIR cameras are not a great choice when starting out in thermal imaging due to cost and life expectancy. Are you certain that LWIR would not be usable in your application ?Fraser

author: ArsenioDev
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2025, 01:45:26 pm
content: I'll echo what Fraser said, unless you ABSOLUTELY need the wavelength, don't even mess with it.Painfully expensive, annoying to get any sort of vendor help, god help you for debug. It's a headache and a half and not worth it unless absolutely necessary

author: hyppo8
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: July 31, 2025, 02:39:52 am
content: Maybe LWIR is all I need just really enjoyed the idea of having a decent older MWIR system.last night I read your nice breakdown on the perils of buying a cooled thermal.If I where to go the LWIR route and didn't want to use a Chinese core what might you recommend?

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2025, 11:25:15 am
content: You need to provide more detail of what you are wanting to do with a thermal camera as they come in several formats for different use scenarios. As a collector of thermal imaging systems I can advise that you will likely be looking for an older camera from FLIR who dominated the industrial thermal cameras market for many years. Fire fighting thermal cameras are an interest of mine and there are several manufacturers to choose from. They are normally auto configuring according to the thermal scene content so that may, or may not, suit your needs.

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2025, 12:07:56 pm
content: This thread may be of interest as it details a classic AGEMA/FLIR multi role camera design that is commonly found on eBay USA and eBay Canada. The cameras to look for are FLIR PM570, PM575, PM675 and PM695. It is one of the favourite camera designs in my collection and I own many of the models in the serieshttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/flir-pm570-professional-thermal-camera-teardown-and-design-commentary-by-fraser/

author: hyppo8
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 01, 2025, 02:18:51 am
content: I want to build a vehicle mounted unit to suction cup to the top of my vehicle and use a LAN to stream to some AR glasses so that I am able to have a fairly decent front facing thermal solution.Mainly because I want to have less of a chance of hitting animals in the middle of the nightMy only dealings with older thermals is when I owned a older Russian M605 Fusion unit, which was apparently uncooled medium wave.

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2025, 08:31:43 am
content: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/thermal-camera-affordable-raytheon-night-vision-thermal-camera-unit/https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/thermal-camera-teardown-raytheon-cadillac-deville-thermal-nightvision-camera/

author: ArsenioDev
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2025, 03:06:07 pm
content: Hyppo, I have several old Raytheon BST cores in the weather sealed versions, they're amazing for use in vehicles and fairly simple the mount. DM me if you're interested

author: R4ph43l
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 09, 2025, 08:42:22 pm
content: EBay?Phoenix for partshttps://www.ebay.com/itm/388948452788?itmmeta=01K4R3BME0E0G658PPG3SE527W&hash=item5a8f2265b4:g:ocMAAeSwAjJoesRJ$2300