#Flir breach full

If you calculate and compare the Breach PTQ136 run time of 90 mins per single CR123, then six batteries will give you a whopping 9 hours of run time!! Sure, you have to swap out the battery every 90 minutes but to get double the run time than the Scion for half the size? That is not a terrible compromise.

#Flir breach full

The Scion’s size is partially due to the giant battery tray and the fact it needs six CR123s to get a full 4.5 hours of run time. At first glance, it seems like the Scion is better than the Breach right? Not quite.

The Scion OTM boats a 4.5 hour run time versus the Breach’s minuscule 90-minute run time. The 18mm germanium lens on the OTM266 is twice as big as the puny 9mm lens on the Breach. It has a 640×480 detector compared to the Breach’s meager 320 × 256 VOx Microbolometer. Overall length is not the only difference. As you can see in the photo above and at the top, the green Scion OTM is twice as long as the Breach PTQ136. Let us take a closer look at the Scion OTM compared to the Breach PTQ136. However the SCION OTM is their latest handheld thermal imager and the Breach is one of the smallest of its class and price range. FLIR and various other companies have come out with a wide array of thermal imaging devices in the past. Thermal handheld imagers are not something new. We will take a look at the SCION OTM and see how it compares to the Breach PTQ136. Was it worth the 2.5-year wait? We shall find out in this FLIR thermal showdown. I remember drooling over the FLIR Q14B when they debuted it at SHOT Show 2017. As an owner of a FLIR T50 ACTS, I was excited to check out FLIR’s latest offering in handheld thermal imagers.