Monday 14 July 2014

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

By Coleen Torres


It is a fact that prevention is always better than a costly cure. For preventive maintenance of electrical systems, a survey using electrical infrared Los Angeles is the perfect option. If the problems are not identified and arrested at an early stage, a delay may cost you more due to failure and damage of property.

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.

Increased resistance in systems operated by electricity may be caused by loose connections, component age, oxidation, fatigue, wear, or poor installation. The high temperature imager in the camera can clearly show the hottest area in the circuit. It measures the temperature of the hottest area and helps diagnose its health.

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.

A lot of factors are responsible for this increase in resistance. A few of them include wear, loose connection, oxidation, age of the component, fatigue, or poor installation. The infrared camera can capture the high temperature image of all the hot spots as well as the actual temperature.

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 infrared inspection therefore helps detect and document any potential defects or failures in the systems operated by electricity. The infrared scanning covers all the electrical connections and installations such as distribution panels, motor control centers, sub-feed panels, transformers, variable frequency drives, etc. Timely repairs or replacement of the problems help clients save lots of money that would have been spent if the problem was overlooked and the entire component was to be replaced. It also mitigates the safety hazards associated with failure or damage as well.

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.

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 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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