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After making sure the battery is charged using the external wall charger, hold the power button for ~3 seconds to power up.  Open the lens caps and press the center button (#3 in Fig. 1) to bring up the Main menu toolbar.  Here you will choose the settings to identity cold spots in the core. 

Figure 1:

a) 1 - camera screen, 2 - Archive button (opens recorded images), 3 - Navigation pad (up, down, left, right, centering button), 4 - Cancel/Return, 5 - On/Off (quick push to sleep, hold 3sec to power on/off),

b) 1 - digital lens, 2 - Infrared lens, 3 - Switch to open/close lens cap, 4 - Trigger to take photo, 5 - Battery,

c) 1 - Main menu toolbar, 2 - Submenu toolbar, 3 - Spot Meter, 4 - Temperature reading, 5 - Battery/Memory meter, 6 - Temperature scale.

Main Menu Tabs

The far left tab is “Settings,” and contains three sub menus: 

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Emissivity should be set to “Semi-glossy (0.60),” Reflected     temperature to 20C20 C, and Distance to 1 meter.

Save options

Photo as separate JPEG to “On”.

Device settings

Can stay at default.

Second from the left is “Image Mode,” and should stay at the default of “Thermal MSX,” which represents an infrared image with outlines of objects within the frame.  This helps to keep the core in the center of the frame while scanning.

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