UNI-T UTi730E Thermal Imaging User Manual

User Manual

UTi720E/ UTi730E
Professional Thermal Imager
User Manual

Preface

Dear user：
Thank you for selecting the brand new UNI-T E Series Infrared Thermal Imaging Device. In order to use this product correctly, please read the full text of this manual carefully before using it, especially the part about “Safety Precautions”.
If you have read the full text of this manual, it is recommended to keep this manual properly with the accessories of the thermal imaging device or in a place where you can refer to it at any time for future use.

Limited warranty and limited liability

Our company guarantees that the product is free from defects in material and workmanship for one year from the date you purchase it. The warranty does not cover the damage caused by accident, negligence, misuse, modification, contamination or abnormal operation or handling, etc. The Distributor shall not be entitled to give any other guarantee in the name of the Company. If you need warranty service during the warranty period, please contact the authorized service center nearby to obtain the product returning authorization information; and then send the product to the service center with the product problem description.

This guarantee is the only compensation you can get. Otherwise, the Company does not provide any warranty, express or implied, like the implied warranty for a particular purpose. Meanwhile, the Company shall not be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damage or loss arising out of any cause or conjecture whatsoever. If some states or countries do not allow limitations on implied warranties and incidental or consequential damages, the above limitations and requirements may not apply to you.

Performance indicators

UTi720E:

Mode| Low-temperature scale (-20℃~ 150℃)
High-temperature scale (0℃~ 550℃ (manual selecting scale)
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Thermal imaging pixel| 256*192（49152）
ILFOV| 3.8mrad
Focal length| 3.2mm
Sensitivity| <50mK @25℃
Frame frequency| <25Hz
Precision| -10℃~550℃, room temperature of 25℃, and ±2℃/±2% to take the maximum value
Temperature measurement scale| – 20℃ ~ 550℃ (-4℉~1022℉)

UTi730E:

value
Temperature measurement scale| -40℃~400℃（-40℉~752℉）

**UTi720E/UTi730E** ：

contrast rainbow
Infrared spectral bandwidth| 8~14μm
Field of view| HFOV 56°
Focusing mode| Free Focus
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Digital zoom| 2x,4x
Temperature Sweep| 5 points,3 rectangles,3 circles, and1 a line (add up to 6)
Vitta tool| Automatic isothermal, proportional isothermal, downward isothermal, upward isothermal, interval isothermal, and manual isothermal
Temperature display| Center point temperature, and high/low-temperature tracking
Temperature measurement

unit

| ℃(default)、℉、K
High and low temperature

alarm

| Yes (LED lighting alarm, and LCD animation alarm)
Image mode| Thermal imaging, visible light, fusion, and picture in picture
Image capture mode| Take pictures, and automatically take pictures
Image save format| JPG
Image browse| Temperature analysis, changing switches, and remarks
QR code scanning| Yes
USB communication| Type-c USB (Charging, real-time image, and USB disk storage)
WIFI| Yes
PC projection screen| Yes
PC analysis software| Yes (live image, photo download, and analysis)
Mobile phone APP| Yes (Photo download and analysis)
LED lighting| Yes
Language| English/French/German/Spanish/Russian
Authentication| CE FCC UKCA ROHS
Operation temperature| 0℃~ 50℃ (32℉~ 122℉)
Storage temperature| -10℃~ 60℃ (14℉~ 140℉)
Operation humidity| 10%~95%RH（Non – Condensing）
Battery| 5200mAh(Detachable battery pack)
Auto Power -Off| Yes
Service duration| More than 3 h
Charging period| Less than 4h
Charging voltage/current| 5V/ 1.5a 9V/1A 12V/1A (supported only with standard USB charging below QC2.0)
Image saving| The microSD card supports 32 GB for maximum
IP level| IP54 ( IEC 60529:1989+A1:1999+A2:2013 )
Drop height| 2m

 Structure

Display instructions

• Display resolution: 640×480

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Power on-off

Long press the “Power button” for 5 seconds to start up the thermal imaging device (if the start up the device just now, the device is not being used for a long time or after the measurement environment changes, it will take up 30 minutes for starting up the device to measure the temperature). Long press the “Power button” for 5 seconds to turn off the thermal imaging device. When the thermal imaging device is in low power mode, the remainder of the low power will pop up. At this time, the thermal imaging device needs to be turned off to charge. When the thermal imaging device is in low power mode all the time, the thermal imaging device will automatically shut down.

Instruction of configuration menu

Configuration options for the main menu

The main page of the thermal imaging device

1. Press the “SET key” on the home page to display the main menu
2. Press the “Left/right key” to select sub-menu
3. Press the “SET key” to enter the corresponding sub-menu
4. Press the “Left/right key” to select the sub-menu Settings
5. Press the “SET key” to select Settings
6. Press the “Back key” to return to the previous level and save the Settings
7. Press the “Back key” again to return to the home page of thermal imaging

Main menu:

Sub-menu:

 Marking tool

If you need to use the center point/high/low-temperature tracking/temperature display function, press the “SET key” to pop up the main menu options, select “Marking tool”  by using the left/right key, and then press the “SET key” to enter the marking tool sub-menu options and make a selection by using left/right key. (For example Press the “SET  key” to select “Center point”. When cross collimation appears, it means that the center point cursor is opened. Press the “SET key” again, and the cross collimation disappears, indicating that the function of the center point cursor is closed.

Image mode

Press the “SET key” to pop up the main menu, select “Image mode” by using the “Left/right key”, and then press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu options of image mode.  You can make a selection using the left/right key. For example, press the”SET key” to select “Thermal imaging” to switch the image to thermal imaging mode. (In the fusion mode, you can adjust the fusion ratio by using the “Left/right key” and adjust the fusion distance by using”Up/down key”. In the picture in picture mode, you can change the position and size of the picture in the picture by selecting Move or Stretch by using the “Left/right key”. Press the “SET key” to select “QR code”, you can manually enter the QR code or can the code to obtain the QR code, and select “Cancel” to return to the main page).

Swatches switching

Press the “SET key” to pop up the main menu options, and select “Swatches Switch” by using the “Left/right key”, select the required swatches by using the “Left/right key”, and there are seven swatches available: white hot, red hot, iron red, black hot, high rainbow, lava, and rainbow.

Temperature measuring tool

Press the “SET key” to pop up the main menu options, and select “Temperature measuring tool” by using the “Left/right key”. By using the “Left/right key”, select the analysis object type (including point temperature measurement, line temperature measurement, rectangle, and circle) and select the target (this function can be used only when the analysis object is added to the home page). Clear all and preset tools.

Press the” SET key” to add a point, line, rectangle, and circle temperature measurement analysis object, and the sub-menu bar of “Select the target” will pop up automatically. Select the required functions by using the “Left/right key”, including the following functions: select, move, stretch (for the point temperature measurement analysis object, it cannot be stretched), comparing (for the point temperature measurement analysis object, it can only be compared with point temperature measurement analysis object, and corresponding comparison information will be displayed on the right after comparison), and delete (only the currently selected temperature measurement analysis object can be deleted). After adding the temperature measurement analysis object, the corresponding temperature information will be displayed on the left side. When selecting the line temperature measurement analysis object, the temperature curve of the line area will be displayed in the lower left corner.

After pressing the “SET key” to clear all functions, all temperature measurement analysis objects on the current page will be cleared. If there is a temperature measurement analysis object on the home page, press the “SET key” to select the preset tool, and the “Save Tool” prompt box will pop up. If you select OK, the current analysis object will be saved and the preset tool can be used next time. If there is no temperature analysis object on the home page, press the” SET key” to select the preset tool, and the Read Tool dialog box will be displayed. If you select OK, the preset tool saved last time will be added to the home page.

N o te: The maximum of five-point temperature measurement analysis objects can be added. For line temperature analysis objects, it can be added only one. A maximum of three rectangular and circular temperature analysis objects can be added. The total number of temperature measurement analysis objects cannot exceed six. If the number of analysis objects exceeds the threshold, will not add any analysis objects and will display the message” Outnumber”.

Vitta tool

Press the “SET key” to pop up the main menu, and select “Vitta Tool” by using the “Left/right key”. Select the desired vitta tool by using the “Left/right key”. Six isothermal modes can be selected: Auto isothermal, Proportional isothermal, Down isothermal, Up isothermal, Interval isothermal, and Manual isothermal.

Photo view and edit

On the main page, press the “Photo view key” to enter the multimedia view. Press the “Up/Down key” to select all photos/videos or other folders, and press the “SET key” to enter. Press the “Up/Down/Left/Right key” to select the picture you want to view, press the”SET key” to view the picture, and switch the picture using the “Left/right key”.

Press the “SET key”, and the picture interface sub-menu will appear, press the “Left/right key” to select the photo message (for UTi720E, you can view the picture shooting time, modify time, emissivity, infrared resolution, ambient temperature, humidity, reflection distance and QR code, remarks and other information. For UTi730E, you can view the photo shooting time, modify time, emissivity, infrared resolution, QR code, remarks, and other information), modify remarks (after adding remarks, you can view them in the photo message), and state editing (it can be used for second editing of the marking tool, image mode, swatches switch, temperature measurement tool, vitta tool and other functions on the original picture, and the function are basically the same as the main page function), QR code (it can be added to the existing QR code for picture classification.  After classification, you can view the corresponding QR code classification pictures in different folders, and can also delete the QR code of the current picture or add a new QR  code. The new QR code is not added here for folder classification), and deleting photos.
Note: After editing on the status editing page, press the “SET key” to open the status editing submenu, select Recovery by using the “Up key”, and press the “SET key” to restore the picture to the initial state. After editing, press the “Back key”. The message Exit or Not will be displayed. If you select Exit, the editing page is directly exited. If you select Save, the message”Cover or not?” will be displayed. If you select Cover, change the original image and save it, then back to the view page. If you select New, the original image will not be changed, one new image will be added and back to the view page.

After adding the QR code, press the “Back key” and the message”Save and exit” will pop up to confirm, then the added QR code will be saved. If you select Cancel, the QR code will not be saved, and exit the QR code editing page. The QR code added here, it will not be saved to the existing QR code category. If you need to modify the existing QR code, just modify it in the Settings.

Digital amplification & fusion ratio adjustment

On the home page, press the “Up key” to enlarge the screen, and the corresponding magnification factor will be displayed in the upper right corner of the screen. The switch of magnification factor is switched with the cycle of 1X, 2X, 4X, and 1X.
On the home page, press the “Left and right keys” to adjust the degree of fusion. The degree of fusion adjustment is 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% respectively.

System setup

Press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu, and select different Settings by using the “Up/Down key”.Press the “SET key” to enter the secondary page for settings, including camera mode, units, parameters, alarm, QR CODE, language, date, time, Wi-Fi, USB mode, brightness, automatic shutdown, factory reset, and about Settings. Click “Back key”  to return to the first-level menu on the setting page, and click the “Back key” again to return to the main menu.
13.1 Camera mode
After entering the first level menu on the Setting page, select the “Camera mode” option, press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Camera Mode”, and use the  “Up/Down key” to select Photo/Auto photo. If you select automatic photo taking, press the “Up/Down key” to set the automatic photo taking interval (10s- 1000s is optional). 

13.2 Units
After entering the first-level menu on the Settings page, select the “Units” option and press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Units”. Use the “Up/Down key” to select the temperature/distance. When selecting a temperature, press the “Up/Down key” to select the temperature unit (℃/K/℉). Distance units, cannot be changed.

13.3 Parameters
UTi720E：
After entering the first-level menu of the Settings page, select the “Parameter” option and press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Parameter”. Select emissivity/ambient  temperature/reflected temperature/relative humidity/object distance/Temperature scale through the “Up/Down key”. Press the”SET key” to select the parameter you want to change, and press the “Up/Down key” to select the value for the parameter. When setting the object distance parameter, press the “SET key” to enter the “Object distance” sub-menu, and then use the “SET key” and the “Up/Down key” to modify the parameter.
Low temperature scale：-20℃~150℃
High temperature scale：0~550℃
Note: It takes about 20 seconds to switch the temperature scale. Wait until the switch is stable before performing other operations or measuring the temperature.

1. Please refer to the 18 Emissivity table;
2. If you cannot determine which value to use, it is recommended to use the following default values:
   Emissivity 0.95
   Ambient temperature 25℃
   Reflected temperature 25℃
   Relative humidity 55%RH
   Object distance 0.25m

Note: Emissivity and reflected temperature are the two most important parameters that need to be set correctly. If you are in doubt, please use the default values.
UTi730E：
After entering the first-level menu of the Settings page, select the “Parameter” option and press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Parameter”. Select emissivity/object distance through the “Up/Down key” and press the “SET key” to select parameters to be changed. Press the “Up/Down key” to select the value for the parameter. When setting the object distance parameter, press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Object distance”, and then use the “SET key” and the “Up/Down key” to modify the parameters.

13.4 Alarm
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select the “Alarm” option, press the”SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Alarm”, and select the high-temperature alarm/low-temperature alarm /LEDalarm by using the “Up/Down key”. When selecting a high-temperature alarm/low-temperature alarm, select the high/low-temperature alarm value by using”Up/Down key”, press the “SET key” to select, and set the required value by using”Up/Down key” (UTi720E: -20℃-550℃ optional, and UTi730E:  -40℃~400℃ optional).

When the temperature of the measured object exceeds the high-temperature alarm temperature value, the red positive triangle will pop up. When the temperature of the measured object is lower than the low-temperature alarm temperature value, the green inverted triangle will pop up.

13.5 QR CODE
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select the “QR CODE” option and press the “SET key” to enter the QR CODE sub-menu. Select different QR Codes by using the “Up/Down key” and pressing the “SET key” to enter the change page for QR CODE name /CODE.

13.6 Language
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select the “Language” option and select English, French, German, Spanish, or Russian by using the “Up/Down key”.

13.7 Date and time
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select Date and Time and press the” SET key” to enter the submenu of Date and Time. Press the “SET key” to change the time system/date/time, and change the value by using the “Up/Down key”. For example, if you want to change the date, select the change of year/month/day by using the “Left/Right key”, and select the specified date by using the “Up/Down key”.

13.8 Wi-Fi
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select the Wi-Fi option and press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu. Press the “SET key” to open the hotspot, press the “Down key” to select the Hotspot ID and password, and set up by using the “SET key”.

13.9 USB mode
After entering the first-level menu on the Settings page, select the “USB mode” option and press the “SET key” to enter the Sub-menu of “USB mode”. Select “USB storage /USB  Projection” by using the “Up/Down key” and press the” SET key” to select.

13.10 Brightness
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select the “Brightness” option, and select the intensity of brightness (1-100) by using the “Up/Down key”.

13.11 Automatic Shutdown
After entering the first-level menu on the Setting page, select the “Automatic Shutdown” option, and select Off /5 /10 /20 /30 /45 /60 /90 by using the “Up/Down key”.

13.12 Factory reset
After entering the first-level menu on the Settings page, select the option of “Factory reset” option, press the “SET key”, and the prompt “Shutdown and factory reset” will pop up.  If you select Yes, the device will automatically shut down, and the instrument will restore factory settings after manual startup. 13.13 Formatting
After entering the first-level menu on the Settings page, select the “Formatting” option and press the “SET key”. If there is an SD card, the message “format SD card” will pop up?  If you select Yes, will format the SD card. If there is no SD card, the message “Unknown” will be displayed.

13.14 About
After entering the first-level menu on the Settings page, select the “About” option and press the “SET key” to enter the sub-menu of “Product Information”. Then you can view the product model, infrared resolution, hardware version, system version, SN, SD capacity, and other related product information.   14. SD Card
The device supports microSD cards to store images. In order to prevent excessive image data from affecting the operating speed, should periodically copy backup data and clear the data in the card. In order to avoid data abnormalities caused by a hot swap, do not remove or insert the SD card repeatedly. Try to remove or insert the SD card when it is powered off. If you remove the SD card when viewing or operating an image, the message “SD card is lost” will be displayed.

Maintain

Clean the structural housing with a damp cloth or weak soapy solution. Do not use the grinder, isopropyl alcohol, or solvent to clean the lens/window of the instrument housing.

Safety precautions

In order to guarantee accurate measurement results, please read the instructions carefully.
Please be sure to use the product according to the instructions, otherwise, the product will not be free of warranty after damage. Do not use the instrument in an inflammable,  explosive, humid, or corrosive environment. Do not continue to use the instrument when it is damaged, broken, or corrected, which will cause wrong test results. Obtain the actual temperature by referring to the radiation coefficient information; otherwise, the measured temperature may be inaccurate.
Do not aim the lens at the hot light source, like the sun, so as to avoid damage to the lens or thermal imaging detector. Do not use the product in an extremely hot, cold, dusty, or high-humidity environment. For specific requirements on temperature and humidity, please see the product parameter table.
The system supports a USB cable to charge the device but in order to improve charging efficiency, it is recommended to remove the battery pack and charge the battery pack separately.

FCC Compliance Statement

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1.  this device may not cause harmful interference, and
2. this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Common emissivity table

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