THERMOGRAPHY
Thermal imaging is a valuable tool that can have a significant impact on your troubleshooting and maintenance productivity, as well as the bottom line, for industrial, electrical and building applications.
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Thermal Imaging for Building Diagnostics
Missing, damaged, or inadequate insulation, building envelope air leaks, moisture intrusion, and substandard work are costly to residential and commercial building owners. An infrared camera can help you quickly see and find the sources of energy efficiencies, destructive water damage, and structural issues so you can make informed decisions on needed repairs that can help you save energy dollars and stay more comfortable.
Electrical and Mechanical Inspection
Electrical equipment tends to heat up before it fails, hiding from sight until a problem becomes “self-evident”. Fortunately, thermal imaging cameras instantly make those hot spots clearly visible so you can catch them in time to investigate further, plan repairs, and get things fixed before they turn critical. Scan electrical cabinets, breaker panels, fuses, bolted connections, and switchgear with a thermal imager and get an instant picture of impending trouble that you likely would miss otherwise.
Thermal Imaging for HVAC & Plumbing
A “whole building” approach is needed to maximize energy efficiency whether it’s for home or business. Indoor comfort and air quality can be compromised by poor insulation, failing windows, leaky doorways, loose ductwork, plumbing leaks, or mechanical issues relating to HVAC systems.
Good to know: Thermal Imaging Facility Management Applications
Inspecting Bearings
Many predictive maintenance (PdM) programs use thermography to monitor the apparent temperatures of operational equipment, using the heat values to detect and avoid equipment loss.
Detecting Electrical Unbalance and Overloads
Electrical unbalance can be caused by several different sources: a power delivery problem, low voltage on one leg, or an insulation resistance breakdown inside the motor windings.
Inspecting Steam Systems
A sensible approach to a steam system management program is to establish repair priorities based on safety, steam/energy loss, and possible impact on production and quality loss.
Inspecting Electric Motors, Pumps, Fans and Compressors
Using a handheld thermal imager, you can capture infrared temperature measurements of a motor's temperature profile as a two dimensional image.
Loose or Corroded Electrical Connections
Thermal images of electrical systems can indicate the operating condition of the equipment in those systems.
Tests and Measurements for Electrical Fire Prevention
Reviews the fundamental causes of overheating, as well as, the tests and tools commonly used to uncover overheating problems.
Inspecting Furnaces and Boilers
In most cases, if only because of their high operating temperatures and their capacity to cause injury or death as a result of some failures, furnaces and boilers should be included in predictive maintenance (PdM) programs that monitor their condition while they operate.
Monitoring Transformers
Problems with surge protection and lightning arrestors leaking to ground and current tracking over insulators can also be detected using thermography. However, finding such problems requires the capture of subtle temperature differences often under difficult-to-monitor conditions.
HVAC Air Leakage Inspections
In energy audits of homes and other buildings, technicians use blower doors in conjunction with thermal imagers. The blowers create positive or negative pressures within interior envelopes, making leaks much more apparent in thermal images.
Electrical, Insulation and Thermal Measurements for Motors and Drives
Most facilities need to get maximum life out of their motors, because they are expensive to replace in terms of both money and labor. Electrical, insulation resistance and thermal measurement are three tests that can troubleshoot motors, drives, and associated electrical panels and prolong their operational lifetime.