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Night Vision Need some help from really smart thermal guys

falcom

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I have acquired several 640x480 BAE thermal cores and Focal Plane Arrays that are in varying degrees of not working.
I have the Electrical Interface Document but the problems are deeper at the circuit board level.
By swapping boards around and testing with known good microbolometers I have narrowed the problems down to a single source of failure. At least I think I have.
It seems that the processor board needs be calibrated to the FPA.
I have: One board that does not boot.
One board that NUCs but the Shutter is not activated.
And another board needs the video aligned.
I am looking for any help in finding someone who can do this.
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I think that BAE is the only place that is technically capable of helping you. Even people who developed their own cores using BAE's FPA do not have a way to run calibration on BAE's system.
 
Anyone have contact or experience dealing with BAE technical support?
 
Still no luck.
Any leads on contact info for BAE tech repair will be appreciated.
 
Had a few private responses from members but the consensus is that BAE support is non existent.
Some where there must be a tech lurking that has the expertise to help me out.
Some more pics.
First is 640x480 and the secon is the central portion which is about 320x240
I have working cores so I know the distortion is not in the FPA but in the processor circuitry.


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