English – Milwaukee M12 TI User Manual

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button. The figure shows a thermal image with some SPOT

METER and IMAGE NOTE annotations added.

ANALYZE IMAGES TOOLS

Each tool is described next. You can move back to the ANALYZE

IMAGES step at any time to make further adjustments, even after

you have created a report.
NOTE: You can delete any notation you make on an image by

selecting it with the mouse and clicking the x to delete it.
Image Selection Toolbar:
Thumbnail images are located on the left side of the screen.

Choose an image to analyze by clicking on a thumbnail image

here, or by clicking the < BACK or > NEXT button.

Analyze Tools:

SHOW EDITS: Toggles between displaying and hiding the edit

notes you have applied to images. When you hide them, they are

still there for the report, but they are just temporarily hidden from

view. You might want to hide edits momentarily in order to see

what is under a note.
SPOT METER: Use this tool and move the mouse to read the

temperature at any point in a thermal image. Left-click to insert a

SPOT METER mark and its associated temperature reading on an

image.
AREA METER: Use this tool to detect and show the average

temperature in an area. Move the mouse to a corner of the area

you want to select, then click and hold down the left mouse button

while you draw a box around the desired area. The Average, High

and Low temperatures in the selected area inside the box appear

in the Notes Area to the lower right. The ^ mark indicates the

highest temperature in the area. The

mark indicates the lowest

temperature in the area.

See figure

PUSH PIN: Use the PUSH PIN to mark a spot and make a

comment about the spot. The comment appears in the notes area

below the image, and is included in the report. An example is in

figure below:

where it says “Daniel’s hand in the thermal image.” It is easy to see

the arm and hand in the visual image, but hard to find the arm and

hand in the thermal image. The user made this note to help the

person receiving the report find the arm and hand pointing to a

specific pipe.
IMAGE NOTE: Use this tool to write a very short note on an

image. These notes do appear in the report.

Method 2:
Remove the SD card from the Thermal Imager and load images

from the SD card directly into the computer using the USB SD

Card Reader or an SD socket if your computer has one.

The following figure shows what the computer screen looks like

when you use LOAD FROM THERMAL IMAGER. The only time

you use LOAD FROM ANOTHER SOURCE is if you are loading

images that are already on your computer’s main storage drive, on

a CD-ROM, or a USB thumb drive.

The following figure shows a typical Windows file browsing screen

you see when you use with LOAD FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.

NOTE: When you manually load images using LOAD FROM

ANOTHER SOURCE, you must make sure to always load both the

thermal and visual image to get a complete image set, or the

Software will not work properly.
When the Software finds images, you then use the check boxes to

select either all images or individual images. To choose just a few

images for a job, proceed as follows:
1. Click on Include All once or twice as needed to un-check all

images. Include All toggles between all-checked and

all-unchecked. Verify that all the check marks are gone.

2. Click on the image check-boxes to put a check mark in the ones

you want.

3. Click on SAVE on the bottom taskbar.
NOTE: The recommended practice is to first load all images from

the Thermal Imager or SD card that have not already been loaded

into the Software. Later, you can choose which images you want to

include in a Job and Report.
NOTE: The Software auto-saves your work every 2 minutes by

default. You can change the File Saving setting in the top-level File

menu under Settings.

PREPARING TO ANALYZE IMAGES

Before you can start analyzing thermal images you have loaded

into the Software, you must first start a new Job, or open an

existing Job. Previously saved Jobs are listed in the gray area on

the left panel of the screen. The most convenient way to start a

new Job is to start downloading images from the Thermal Imager,

and follow the prompts to start a new Customer and a new Job. If

there are existing Customers and Jobs, you will be prompted to

select one of those, or start a new one.
NOTE: The term “Job” means a package of images that you have

selected, annotated and adjusted. The Software automatically

formats the job into a report. For later Software work sessions, you

can open a previous Job and resume work on it, or you can start a

new Job.
NOTE: The term “Customer” means an entry in the Software’s

internal database for the name of a customer.

To start a new Job, proceed as follows:
1. You can start a new Job under an existing Customer name, or

you can create a new Customer first. To start at the beginning

with a new Customer, move the mouse over

and

click on it to start entering the name of the New Customer, then

click on Create New Customer.

2. Click on New Job. Type in the name you want for the new Job

and click on Create New Job.

3. Click on All Image Sets to choose images from all the images

saved so far. This selection is located in the lower left side of the

screen, just under the list of Jobs.

4. Choose images for your report by Group (if there have been

some Groups saved), by “all,” or individually using the check

boxes on each image you want to include. Images are saved in

a new Group in the Thermal Imager when more than 12 hours

have passed since saving a new image. This is for your

convenience for when you load images onto a computer.

ANALYZING A THERMAL IMAGE

In this step you prepare your images for the report.

Using the ANALYZE IMAGES tools, you can direct attention to

something in an image and explain in your own words the

significance of the temperatures detected and displayed in the

image. You can mark spot temperatures, change the color palette,

and insert various tags and remarks. Click on ANALYZE IMAGES

on the bottom menu bar or, if you are in the MANAGE IMAGES

step, click on the > NEXT button to move to this step.
Choose an image to analyze by clicking on a thumbnail image on

the left side of the screen, or by clicking the < BACK or > NEXT

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BACKGROUND ATTRIBUTES: Use this tool to apply a correction

factor to temperature readings to compensate for reflected infrared

energy that is radiated from adjacent objects outside the image

area. See below for an example setting.

NOTE: You need this feature only in extreme cases where you

need the very best possible accuracy in temperature readings. It

does not help in revealing differences in temperatures, which is

mainly what is required for troubleshooting.
SEVERITY: Use this tool to place an icon on an image indicating

the importance of the thermal image in three levels: LOW

CAUTION

and ALERT .

Notes Bar:

This part of the screen shows all the IMAGE NOTES and SPOT

METERs you have inserted, as well as the optional descriptions for

the image. You can hide the notes bar by clicking on the

expand-contract toggle icon located above and to the right of the

notes bar. Click it again to bring back the notes bar. Hiding the

notes bar gives you a bigger workspace for analyzing images.

The following figure shows a thermal image that has been

annotated using all the tools.

Range and Color Palette Adjustments: Change the Range and

the color palette if desired using the tools at the bottom of the

thermal image display. You can safely experiment with different

settings. The data stored in the files from the Thermal Imager are

not erased when you make adjustments to images.