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.

Current flows through conductors upon application of voltage across the terminals. If resistance increases for the flow of current, the conductor will dissipate additional power and heat up. Most of the electrical connections tend to become hot before they fail. The electromagnetic radiation cameras are able to detect rise in temperature and suggest maintenance before the heat causes failure and serious damage.

For conduction of current through a wire, all one needs is to apply voltage at the terminals. If the amount of current flow is same but resistance in the conductor increases, it dissipates more power which converts to heat energy. The conductor then heats up and cause failure.

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.

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 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 infrared surveys help keep the machines in operating conditions. Temperature detection should be observed regularly, especially if the component holds high loads of connections. The survey is also carried out for apartments, buildings, institutions, etc. To mitigate the risk associated with electrical system malfunctioning. As long as owners regularly use the electromagnetic radiation technology, their electrical components should stay consistent.




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