OWON TI332 Handheld Thermal Imaging Camera User Manual

TI332 Handheld Thermal Imaging Camera

TI332 Handheld Thermal Imaging Camera User Manual

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Product Information

The TI332 Handheld Thermal Imaging Camera is a portable device that allows users to detect and visualize temperature differences in real-time. It has a high-resolution thermal sensor and can display thermal images on its LCD screen. The device also has various color palettes and image modes, as well as the ability to measure temperature and set temperature alarms. The camera can be charged via USB and can export pictures for further analysis.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Power On/Off: To turn on the camera, press and hold the power button until the LCD screen lights up. To turn off the camera, press and hold the power button again until the screen turns off.
2. Quick Measurement: To take a quick temperature measurement, point the camera at the object of interest and press the trigger button. The temperature reading will be displayed on the LCD screen.
3. Save, Delete and View Infrared Thermal Image: To save or delete an infrared thermal image, navigate to the “Save/Delete” option in the main menu and select the appropriate option. To view saved images, navigate to the “Gallery” option in the main menu.
4. Main Page: The main page displays the thermal image and various settings. Users can navigate the settings using the control buttons.
5. Control and Trigger Keys: The control buttons allow users to navigate the menus and adjust settings. The trigger button allows users to take temperature measurements and capture images.
6. Charge and Export Pictures: The camera can be charged via USB by connecting it to a computer or power adapter. To export pictures, connect the camera to a computer via USB and transfer the files.
7. Settings: The settings menu allows users to adjust various parameters, including language, emissivity, temperature alarm, WIFI, and LED.

Overview

Appearance
TI332 handheld thermal imaging camera appearance is shown below,

The front of TI332 handheld thermal imaging camera has 6 buttons, as shown below,

• OK & Homepage
• Up arrow
• Down arrow
• Left arrow
• Right arrow
• Return & Power

The back of TI332 handheld thermal imaging camera has 1 button,

• Trigger

Power On/Off

• Press “Return & Power” key >1 second to power on TI332 handheld thermal imaging camera, the thermal imaging will display later.
• Press “Return & Power” key >3 seconds to power off TI332 handheld thermal imaging camera
• If TI332 handheld thermal imaging camera has any abnormal issue, Press “Return & Power” key >8 seconds to force shutdown the camera.

Quick Measurement

• Power on the thermal imaging camera, press and hold the “Return & Power” reuse key> 1 second as shown in the below figure, wait for the thermal imaging camera to start up, and the main page appears.
• Point the lens at the measured object as shown in the figure below, and the infrared image of the measured object will be displayed on the screen.
• If the temperature value is not displayed on the screen, press “OK & Homepage”, then select the “Measurement” icon , and then select “Center Spot”, “Hot Spot” and “Cold Spot” in the figure below to display the temperature,
• Press the trigger button will freeze the image as the figure below,
• As shown in the figure below, you can save the thermal image and visible light image by pressing the “trigger button” or “OK & Homepage”, and press the “Return & Power” to cancel saving.

Save, Delete and View Infrared Thermal Image

• Power on the thermal camera.
• Point the lens to the object.
• Press the “trigger” to freeze the thermal image and visible light image, continue to press the “trigger” or “OK & Homepage” to save the thermal image and visible light image, press the “Return & Power” cancel saving.
• Press Return will view the saved thermal images and visible images.
• Every time take pictures will save 3 frames into 1 picture,
  • 1st frame: the image frame of what you see is what you get
  • 2nd frame: the raw image frame of thermal image
  • 3rd frame: the raw image frame of visible light image
• In the album, press “OK & Homepage” to preview the image in full screen. You can view the 3 frames of each picture by using the up and down arrow keys. The left and right arrow keys select the previous or next picture.
• When previewing the picture in full screen, press “OK & Homepage” to choose deleting the picture, press “Return & Power” to return to the album.

Main Page

1. Current Emissivity
2. Hot spot, cold spot and central spot
3. Time
4. WIFI
5. Battery
6. Color bar
7. Second level menu
8. First level menu

Control and trigger keys
According to the below description to operate control and trigger keys,

• OK & Homepage” is only used as the homepage key to open the menu when the main page interface is turned on, other times as the Ok key.
• Use the arrow keys to select the direction of the scroll menu and settings.
• “Return & Power” short press as the return key, press> 3 seconds to power off the camera. If the camera works abnormally, press “Return & Power”> 8 seconds to force turn off the camera.
• The “trigger key” trigger key is taking picture and storing picture confirmation key.

Charge and Export Pictures
Charge

Open the charging and data interface silicone plug then can see the USB interface. You can use the accessory’s USB data cable to charge the camera at any time. The camera can still be used during the charging process.
The transformer chooses a universal USB interface 5V 2A or larger charger.
If the camera is power on and charging, please return to the homepage and press the “OK & Homepage”. You can view the current power in the upper right corner of the screen, and the battery will have a green charging mark inside.

If the camera is power off and charging, the display is always show the current battery level as shown below,

Export Picture
There are several methods to export camera pictures,

• When the thermal imaging camera is power on, connect the camera USB interface to the computer with the accessory’s USB cable. A USB drive letter will appear on the computer. You can select the pictures to copy to the computer.
• When the thermal imaging camera is power on, turn on WiFi, and copy the pictures of interest to the computer through the analysis software.

Operation and Settings

Main Page Operation

Quick Operation
Quick Switch Color Palettes

When there is no menu on the main page, you can press the left and right arrow keys to quickly switch between 8 types of color palettes. For details about color palettes, see 2.1.3.4 Color palette. (If the main page displaying visible light image, you cannot switch color palette)

Quickly Switch Image Modes
When no menu appears on the main page, you can press the up and down arrow keys to quickly switch between image modes. For details about the image mode, see 2.1.3.2 Image Mode.

First Level Menu
Power on the camera, press the “OK & Homepage” to display the first-level menu and the status bar on the top. In this state, press the “Return & Power” to close the first-level menu and status bar. The icon selected in the menu is the current operable function, and there is a text prompt on the top of icon.

Viewing Pictures

3| Measurement|

| Temperature measurement options, such as displaying the highest and lowest temperature.
4| Image Mode|

|

Select the image display mode, such as picture-in-picture, outline fusion etc.

5| Thermal AGC| |

Select the effect of the image, such as high contrast, gentle and so on.

6| Color palette|

|

Select the infrared thermal imaging palette, such as iron, white hot, etc.

Second Level Menu
When the first-level menu is display, press “OK & Homepage” to enter the second-level menu or setting interface, and in the second level menu state or setting interface, press “Return & Power” Return to the first-level menu. The icon selected in the second-level menu is the current operable function, and there is a text prompt on the top of the icon.

Measurement The function is shown below,

1

| No

measurements

| | Cancel all measurement

2

|

Center spot

| | Measure the center point temperature of the

thermal imaging camera

3

|

Hot spot

| | Track and measure the highest temperature

points imaged by the camera

4

|

Cold spot

| | Track and measure the lowest temperature

point imaged by the camera

5

|

Zone

| | Select part of the area for temperature

measurement

6

|

Edit Zone

| | Zoom in or out the zone.

Image Mode

The function is shown below,

1

|

Outline Fusion

| | Fusion of visible edge lines and infrared thermal

imaging

2

|

Overlay fusion

| | Infrared thermal imaging and visible light overlay

display

3

| Picture in

Picture

| | Infrared thermal imaging as a picture-in-picture

display in the center of visible light

4

|

Thermal

| | Only display infrared thermal image

5

|

Visible

| | Only display visible light

6

| Fusion

adjustment

| | Adjust the fusion percentage of overlay fusion
7| Fusion offset adjustment|

| When the visible light and thermal image is not 100% coincide based on different distance of the object, then you may use this function to adjust the visible image to coincide the thermal image.

Thermal AGC

The function is shown below,

1

|

High contrast

| | Choose high contract mode to view infrared

thermal image

2

|

Legacy

| | Choose legacy mode to view infrared thermal

image

3

|

Gentle

| | Choose gentle mode to view infrared thermal

image

Color Palette

The function is shown below,

1

|

Tyrian

| |

2

|

White Hot

| |

3

|

Black Hot

| |

4

|

Rainbow

| |

5

|

Glory

| |

6

|

Iron

| |

7

|

Hottest

| |

8

|

Coldest

| |

Settings

The settings interface is shown below,

Language
Select the language in the setting interface, click “OK & Homepage” to select the following different languages,

Emissivity
Select the emissivity in the setting interface, and press “OK & Homepage” to set different emissivity of the object, or you can manually edit the emissivity.

Temperature alarm
Select the temperature alarm in the setting interface, and press “OK & Homepage” to alert the temperature above or below the threshold on the screen.
When the temperature in the screen meets above or below one of the thresholds, an alarm will pop up. When the zone temperature measurement is selected, the alarm icon will only be displayed when the temperature in the zone is above or below the threshold temperature.

Alarm above threshold
Edit the upper limit alarm value, and then turn on the upper limit alarm switch (these two steps are in no particular order). If the temperature value in the screen area is higher than the set threshold temperature, an alarm icon will pop up on the screen. When the temperature value in the screen area is lower than the set threshold temperature, the alarm icon will disappear.

Alarm below threshold
Edit the lower limit alarm value, and then turn on the lower limit alarm switch (these two steps are in no particular order). If the temperature value in the screen area is higher than the set threshold temperature, an alarm icon will pop up on the screen. When the temperature value in the screen area is lower than the set threshold temperature, the alarm icon will disappear.

WiFi
Enable and Disable WIFI
Select WiFi settings in the settings interface. After turning on the WiFi switch, the WiFi icon will be displayed on the status bar of the home page.

When the WiFi switch is turned off, the WiFi icon in the status bar will not be displayed

WiFi Configuration
Select the WiFi setting in the setting interface, and press “OK & Homepage” to set the WiFi. The SSID of the WiFi is the same as the serial number on the side of the handheld thermal imaging camera. The initial password is 12345678. When the WiFi is off, select refresh password to randomly change the WiFi password and display it. When the WiFi is on, the WiFi password cannot be changed. If you forget the WiFi password, you can view the current WiFi password on this interface.

LED
Select the LED in the setting interface, and press “OK & Homepage” to turn the LED on or off.

More
Select More in the setting interface, and press “OK & Homepage” to set more settings. Temperature Unit Temperature unit support below,

• Celsius
• Fahrenheit
• Kelvin

Storage
In the storage option, you can view the current and used capacity of the internal storage memory, and you can choose to format the storage memory.

Date
Date setting can set the current date and time.

Automatic Power Off

Automatic power off can be selected for the following duration if without operating the camera

• 5 minutes
• 10 minutes
• 30 minutes
• 60 minutes
• Never

Temperature Bar
This option can display or not display temperature bar in the home page.

Brightness
This option can adjust the brightness of the screen.

Restore factory settings
Restore factory settings will perform default factory settings on the handheld thermal imaging camera. Please proceed with caution.

About
In the about option can view the basic information of the thermal imaging camera.

Maintenance

Battery Service and Replacement
If the battery cannot be charged and needs to be replaced, please contact your local distributor for repair and replacement.

Calibration
The camera is calibrated in the factory. If calibration is required, please contact your local distributor.

Clean
If necessary, wipe the case with a damp cloth. Use high-quality lens cleaning products to wipe off the dust or stains on the instrument lens and display. Do not use abrasives or solvents to clean the case, lens or display.

Specification

The specification of TI332 is below,   Image analysis Windows platform analysis software Interface Data and charging interface

temperature measurement
Color palette| Tyrian, white hot, black hot, iron, rainbow, glory, Hottest, coldest.

Visible

| Resolution| 640×480
Frame rate| 25Hz
LED light| Support
Display| Display Resolution| 320×240
Display Size| 3.5 inch
Image mode| Outline fusion, overlay fusion, picture-in-picture, infrared thermal imaging, visible light

General

| Working time| 5000mah battery, >4 hours in 25°C (77°F)

Battery Charge

| Built-in battery, it is recommended to use +5V & ≥2A universal USB charger
WIFI| Support App and PC software data transmission
Operating temperature| -20°C~+60°C (-4°F ~ 140°F)
Storage temperature| -40°C~+85°C (-40°F ~185°F)
Waterproof and dustproof| IP54
Camera Dimension| 230mm x 100mm x 90mm
Net weight| 420g
Package dimension| 270mm x 150mm x 120mm
Gross weight| 970g
Storage| Capacity| Built-in memory, about 6.6G available, can store more than 20,000 pictures
Picture storage mode| Simultaneous storage of infrared thermal imaging, visible light and fusion images
File format| TIFF format, support full frame pictures temperature analysis
Provide professional analysis functions to analyze

full pixels temperature analysis

Android platform analysis

software

| Provide professional analysis functions to analyze full pixels temperature analysis
USB Type-C (Support battery charging and data

transmission）

Appendix

Emissivity
The emissivity of common materials is as follows,

0.78 – 0.82

Stucco| 0.89 – 0.91| textile| 0.9
brick| 0.93 – 0.96| |

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