can Infrared get through a Mylar tent?
yes it can, but fortunately the only time LEO would use infrared on your house is if they already have strong suspicions.!!
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@Ravenna no infrared cannot go through your tent.
FLIR can sense heat, and would see it, but your home would show more heat than your tent would, unless it was in the middle of a field.
I worked in Aerospace for many years designing and building Infrared imagers for the military and some commercial applications like firefighters. Certain infrared frequencies will pass through plastic, wood, glass, drywall etc. You could watch people walking on the other side of an interior wall of two courses of drywall. High end detectors can discriminate .1 degree Kelvin.
That said; it’s unlikely something of that caliber would be aimed in our directions.
M1 Abrams Thermal Weapon Sight
Helicopter Night Vision System
Maverick Missile
Clementine BMDO collaboration with NASA
TOW missile
NLOS (later Hellfire)
HEDI (High Exo-atmospheric Defense Interceptor)
A6 FLIR
B52 FLIR
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I think @Myfriendis410 has great examples. The only correct answer would depend on who is looking and what they’re looking with. The technology exists to see it for sure. I believe it’s unlikely your local pd has the technology though.
Unfortunately they don’t need to see into your tent to bust you. If they’re looking at your place with any grade of flir, there’s a reason. To my knowledge the whole purpose of them looking with flir would be to attain evidence to secure a warrant. A cheap unit similar to what we use checking electrical connections is enough to show an unnatural heat signature within a home. Coupled with other evidence could be enough for a judge to issue a warrant. Chances are if this is happening your trash is being tossed and you/your home are under surveillance.
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As the two responses above stated great information.
Ultimately it depends, but in our case no.
That being said if you YouTube thermal grow op you’ll see some examples. Another down side of non LED’s haha well even LED’s pump out heat but can keep it under control better.
You could tie the exhaust into your furnace vent =p
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That is how mine is. I’m using the space behind my gas fireplace. Piping my tent exhaust through the fireplace exhaust
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I have mine right beside my hot water heater but… It’s electric Hahaha so jokes on me no vent! Haha ughhh
Dude that is fucking rad
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