This is quite a discovery regarding the core in the Eagle 2 !
So the claims made by Scott on their documentation for this camera and what the sales reps told potential customers is not really accurate/true. FLIR claimed to have engineered the Eagle 2 using one of their cores. The truth would appear to be that FLIR engineered a thermal camera design that uses a BAE core. I apologise to ‘Arseniodev’ for doubting his comment
Just thinking about this for a minute, it does make sense. Before FLIR bought Indigo they did not have the OMEGA or Photon series of cores. I thought they may have bought in an OMEGA core for this project but they clearly opted for the BAE product. This camera is from an era prior to when FLIR had its own selection of compact imaging cores and, unlike now, they bought in the parts that they needed from core OEM’s. It is easy to forget that FLIR only became the manufacturer of a vast array of camera types by the purchase of other companies that had the skills and experience to build such. FLIR could be considered a sort of ‘Management Company’ that ‘Borged’ what it needed to become the company that we see today. A case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts as Aristotle would say.
The BAE core will be nice quality and can be configured using a PC connected to its serial communications port. I would need to check whether it is RS232, RS422 or RS485. I think it is RS422.
The X380 configuration menu is indeed accessed through a button sequence. From memory you have to hold the two outer buttons down whilst switching the camera on with the middle button. I would need to check though. The X380 uses a core and firmware completely designed in-house by ISG. Sadly there is little chance that they will share the configuration password with you but you can ask them and see what they say.
The password challenge is a nightmare design that uses a vertical column of both Alphanumeric and symbol characters with selection using the two function buttons for each character followed by selecting a ‘return’ symbol. It is a bit of a nightmare process as button debouncing appears to be lacking ! You cannot easily brute force or guess the password
I do not have the “X380” password in my archives. I think you are stuck with the Fahrenheit scale.
Fraser
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