I've been meaning to get a more modern VGA format high resolution thermal core for years at this point but the $2K starting price is a hard pill to swallow.
Eventually my gut feeling about the demand spike and crash of the thermal monitoring market due to the coronavirus and kiosk temperature checks would eventually lead to a mass sell off of systems at bargain basement prices.
This was one such system, a I snagged for well under $1k.
RIPPIN good deal on its own, but diving inside the deal became even better(These things retail for around $20K according to manufacturer).
A quick removal of the cover and it's pretty much exactly what I expected inside, Core block style IR (with a normal COTS ribbon cable data bus), board level EO, and a Hisilicon based IP camera board(though it does have an intriguing dedicated AI processor SOC daughterboard connected over I think PCIE).
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Quick power up shows the BNC on pigtails is non-output, disabled in software sadly, but it spits out two RTSP ONVIF streams(EO/IR) and IR is in 1:1 format, VGA 25Hz. Quality of thermal video is excellent, no overdone digital enhancement or weird amplification in default rainbow color map.
Pulling core out shows it's a standard type, M34 format lens attachment (HOORAY!) and a normal mezzanine connector on the back to a carrier board to ribbon. More investigation has this camera positively ID'd as a Dali D8X3C camera which is even better news because a quick email over to their support line and I got the documentation on the core, video format and command/control interfaces.
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Attached at end of post are some sample captures off the RTSP stream as I haven't made an interface board or teamed up with the friends to make a better video interface over USB or similar.
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