6  Introduction

The main function of the FLIR A500f/FLIR A700f series camera is, through adding the housing, to increase the environmental specification of the standard FLIR A400/A500/A700 series camera to IP 66 without affecting any of the features available in the camera itself.

When delivered, these cameras are already mounted into a environmental housing device from VIDEOTEC. The device is based on model HOV Hi-PoE IPM with special FLIR front with support for visual and thermal camera.

There is no active cooling, such as a cooling fan. However, the camera is mounted on FLIR custom made cooling plates and there are also extra cooling plates connecting the camera to the housing.

There is a heater which will control the powering of the camera. When it is started in cold environments, it will wait until the internal heater has increased the temperature inside of the camera, before the camera is powered up.

For more information on the environmental housing device, refer to the Instruction manual from the supplier of the device: https://www.videotec.com/ .

Typical applications where the cameras of the FLIR A500f/FLIR A700f series can be used are:

For system application examples, refer to the User’s manual of the FLIR A400/A500/A700 series.