Thermal Image resistance???

[smellybottom]

Can anyone tell me any good methods of thermal Image resistance?
I heard something about lining your grow room with rockwool and mylar?
Is this a load of bullshit or does it work??

smellybottom Reviewed by smellybottom on 08-21-2004. Thermal Image resistance??? Can anyone tell me any good methods of thermal Image resistance? I heard something about lining your grow room with rockwool and mylar? Is this a load of bullshit or does it work?? Rating: 5

[dylan]

don't know about that, but i have heard of some type of heat blocking foil to line your celing with. though i don't know where to get it. i saw it in a pot tv show.

[UserName AlphaNiner]

Thermal image?

Sorry, but can someone explain this to me?

I've heard of a system where the police can scan your house and see and large amount of light/heat being generated...but I honestly thought that was a loud of shit. It seems silly that they are even ALLOWED to do this. Invasion of privacy comes to my mind, I think.

[dylan]

they do not see light (unless you let it leak out), but they see heat. it's only sercemstancial(not shure how to spell that)evdence, and would not be used unless they knew or had a good idea what was going on.

[rnf232s]

First of all the cops dont go around searching for houses with high levels of heat randomly. They would have to have reason to. Also a small grow area wouldnt yield enough heat to really do anything anyways too. They couldnt come close to showing it was a grow room.

[UserName AlphaNiner]

Well, a large amount of heat concentrated in one closet sized area would give them a pretty good idea of what is going on.

I think it's bullshit, still. Invasion of privacy. They should not be able to search my house in ANY way without my consent. I don't grow, but I think it's utter garbage that a police officer can scan my house, without me knowing. I mean, heat is used for a lot of other things, too. X_X

I actually heard from a friend, originally, that someone in my city got busted for having a couple of houses full of weed....but he got caught because of this thermal thing. I didn't believe it at first, though.



So, tell me more about this....will they do anything for 1 closet full of plants? Get a warrent to search your house or something?

[UserName AlphaNiner]

"First of all the cops dont go around searching for houses with high levels of heat randomly. They would have to have reason to. Also a small grow area wouldnt yield enough heat to really do anything anyways too. They couldnt come close to showing it was a grow room."

Thanks...pretty much solves my questions. Now... a viable reason for searching houses would be? High traffic (suspected dealing) Nieghbors tipping or past records?

[rnf232s]

I dont know for sure, but to go to the extreme of sending out things to check the heat and stuff I would think they would have to have some good reasons to. If people dont know and stuff I doubt they would unless they suspected you of growing. Maybe if you had a large grow room and somebody knew and got busted and were a rat and told the cops they might check out, but other than extremes like that I honestly doubt you are in trouble if you just dont let the world know about it. A personal grow room I definately doubt the cops would bother you ever if you never told anyone, even if they used heat reading stuff.

[SomeDude]

In califonia and hawaii they used to fly helicopters around with thermal imaging looking for growhouses(thus searching random houses) in order to get a warrant, but I believe that was ruled an unlawful search.

As for the material used to line your roof, I believe its aluminized mylar, the same stuff used to make thermal survival blankets. They're also carried by some forest firefighters to cover up with if they got surrounded by fire.

However, the military did some testing with this stuff to see if it could hold in body heat enough to evade enemy thermal imaging, and they found that the mylar just heated up to near body temp and didn't do any good. Perhaps if you used it to line your growroom the same could happen. But in the case of a grow room the heat is being tranferred by radiation rather than conduction in the case of having it against your body, so that may make a difference.

[Closet Drifter]

Someone told me that if the PG&E notice your bill jump up them thats enought to search your crib