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Surface temperature may vary widely from internal temperature. Also, if an IR camera is to detect hot spots, you'd need some intelligence to analyze the image.
by allears 6y ago
Surface temperature may vary widely from internal temperature. Also, if an IR camera is to detect hot spots, you'd need some intelligence to analyze the image. Sounds like the development of such a gadget wouldn't be so simple.
- crazygringo 6y agoThanks. You'd absolutely need to digitally process the image, so it's absolutely not as simple as just hooking up a sensor, but it seems like a basic chip should be able to handle it. It's really ultimately just some basic statistical processing of a histogram of temperatures I think. And I don't think surface temperature is a problem -- I read a source (can't find it now) which claimed that once the entire outer temperature of something in the microwave has reached the desired level (no cold spots), that's the moment that the inside has too. I'm not sure if that's accurate, but simply "holding" the surface temperature there for a couple or a few minutes would seem to solve that as heat penetrates from conduction, I think?