Friday, 18 July 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.

The infrared images of the weak spots in the circuits are accurately detected in this survey. Sometimes, the conductor or chord gets worn out, power strips get overloaded, or an electrical appliance starts malfunctioning. Once a hazard goes out of control, it may lead to loss of life, production, and property.

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.

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.

Early detection of the faulty systems surely lowers risks and prevents catastrophic failures. When all these benefits of preventive maintenance in electrical systems are combined and utilized, the ultimate gain will be rising profits for the industry. This is the reason why most insurance companies ask for an infrared inspection of all electric units.

Generally, preventive maintenance is carried out during the planned shutdown of operating units, which causes production loss. With infrared survey, no downtime is required. It can be executed while the unit is still under operation and functioning well.

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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