N_Cook wrote:

I used some matt black rubber tubing .about 5mm diameter as a shroud
but as I say the resolution , down to SMD dimensions , seemed to be
no different with or without the tube

Mine has a short metal tube, or more like a cup, that is reflective. It
seems to me that a reflective tube would work better at conducting the IR
from the endpoint.


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