Sunday, 13 July 2014

Preventive Maintenance With Electrical Infrared Los Angeles Will Save You Time And Money

By Coleen Torres


One of the main reasons behind fire hazard is the electrical connections or appliances. The most effective method for predictive maintenance is system scanning using electrical infrared Los Angeles. It is always preferable to go for preventive maintenance components get damaged or fail.

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.

Through electromagnetic radiation inspection, incipient defects in the electrical components can be detected and documented. It helps timely repairs of problems before the component fails. Unpredicted failure of any system may also lead to safety hazards and losses in productivity.

Questions may arise about why only some of the connections get hot. The connections heat up only when the resistance increases, but there may be many reasons behind this increase. It may happen due to aging of the component, loose connection, poor installation, fatigue, oxidation, or wear.

The higher the temperature, the more chance there is of failure in that heated spot. Experienced thermographers record the hot spot temperature at all locations and analyze their health conditions. They also recommend required repairs or replacement plans for critical connections.

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 electromagnetic radiation survey detects any loose connections, open circuits, overloads, defective equipment, unbalanced load, harmonics, and open circuits. If the weaker connections in these areas are repaired in time, it saves both money and production loss due to unpredicted or unscheduled shutdown.

Planned shutdowns are generally organized for most of the general industrial preventive maintenance measures. Planned shutdowns undoubtedly lead to production losses but are necessary with some types of maintenance. However, infrared scanning requires absolutely no shutdown during the entire survey.

The entire system including the distribution panels, switchgear, transformers, sub-feed panels, bus ducts, variable frequency drives, motor control centers, etc. Can be inspected during the survey. To get the maximum benefits of this survey, it is recommended to be carried out annually. It is the most cost-effective predictive maintenance system one can think of, but well worth the price.




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