Sunday, July 20, 2014

Mitigate Safety Hazards With Electrical Infrared Los Angeles

By Coleen Torres


Preventive maintenance of electric terminals in your apartment, building, or factory cannot be overlooked. Expert professionals of electrical infrared Los Angeles can be found online or in local directories. Infrared technology is the recommended diagnostic method to detect weak spots in the circuit and switchgear of your building.

Since failure in circuits or systems and installations mostly are the reasons behind fire and other catastrophic hazards, nobody likes to compromise on the preventive maintenance cost of these systems. The infrared camera helps take images of all the defective connections and components in your system.

These detectors basically identify the hot spots or connections in the system. It should be noted that all electrical connections usually heat up before they burn up and fail. This is because of a high increase in resistance in that particular location.

If unattended, the components may fail and get damaged. In preventive maintenance, the images of the hot spots are detected and corresponding temperatures are measured using the infrared cameras. The reported temperature values are then analyzed by experienced thermographers who suggest maintenance.

The inspection is able to detect loose or deteriorated connections, open circuits, inductive heating, overloads, harmonics, defective equipment, and unbalanced loads. Once detected, the problems can be arrested with minimum repairing costs. Otherwise, the weaker connections could lead to failure of the component and subsequent production loss due to unscheduled downtime.

If you are able to find these hot spots at the initial stage, you repair them before they fail and cause damages. If you don't, it may lead to catastrophic failure and you may end up losing life, property, and production. In order to prevent these unpredicted failures, annual electrical surveys are recommended.

The inspection or survey can also detect open circuits, overloads, defects, inductive heating, and unbalanced loads. The survey has another major advantage over other preventive maintenance processes. The plant doesn't need to be shut down during the infrared survey, so it detects the defects only while the component is active.

The survey is very cost-effective since it can detect all the probable weak points in the system quickly and efficiently. Once diagnosed, the points may be repaired based on the recommendations before they cause further damage or failure that would undoubtedly waste a lot of time and money. Although a costly test, annual surveys are preferable to a complete renovation due to negligent failure.

The survey improves the efficiency of the electrical industry. However, it also helps building owners, facility directors, and property managers take better care of their properties. A skilled thermographer tests all the systems in running condition and report his findings to the management, who then can act accordingly.

The electrical system in any organization includes the transformers, sub-feed panels, distribution panels, bus ducts, motor control centers, variable frequency drivers, etc. All these components can be scanned properly using the infrared electrical scanners. The resulting scanning report helps improve the health of the entire system.




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