If you are running a company or any commercial business, the safety of your building, equipment and the people working for you should come first. Most electrical failures are preceded by some signs which often go unnoticed or are ignored. Fortunately, there are ways to detect these signs of a failing electrical system without getting anyone hurt.
The electrical panel is the core of your entire electrical system. It is a crucial part of ensuring the safety of power outlets, equipment and appliances as it contains circuit breakers and fuses.
A routine panel inspection can help you spot the signs of a faulty system before any damage is done. Panel inspection is a practice that every company should include in their maintenance plan.
What is Infrared Analysis
Infrared analysis of your electrical system is an even better way to identify faults in your system. Infrared inspections work by detecting thermal differences between different areas on a surface. Defects in electrical components and equipment cause increased heating in the areas where there is a fault due to increased electrical resistance.
These thermal hot spots are caused by overloaded circuits, loose connections, unbalanced loads or faulty equipment. An infrared analysis highlights these hot spots without necessitating a technician to inspect every component to locate the anomaly.
An infrared inspection can be done to survey any electrical component and equipment for failures. Your entire panel inspection can be done using this technology.
Infrared thermography is your solution for inspecting wiring, circuits, breakers, fuses, switches, gears, motors, transformers, buses, HVAC and lighting systems.
Benefits of Infrared Inspection
- Earlier detection of impending problems
- Reduced downtime as the infrared scan is done while your system is still running.
- Safety of the technicians and workers through the entire process
- Reduces the risk of electrical fire
What your Company will Learn from Infrared and Panel Inspection!
These two practices that are often forgotten when planning maintenance can help your company learn a lot before you even start or make any maintenance plans. Here’s what you will learn from doing an infrared and panel inspection:
Loose or Disconnected Electrical Connection
Loose electrical connections and wiring are the number one cause of electrical fires. Since most of these cables and connections are hidden, it may not be possible to detect any faults until there’s a fire. Infrared thermography will identify exactly where there is a loose connection or deteriorated connection. This way it will be easy to fix it before problems start.
Overloads
Overloaded circuits, breakers and fuses also cause electrical hot spots and, if not attended to early enough, may cause electrical failures. Doing a panel inspection will help technicians identify these overloaded breakers in the panel board. Infrared inspection will also give a thermograph of the overloaded circuits and cables on the entire system.
Unbalanced Loads
If you are running a massive company or industry, there is high power consumption hence a complex electrical system. It is important in such cases to ensure that your power consumption is balanced. Ensure that power is not drawn to one side more than the other to prevent failures. An infrared inspection can also help you to know if there is any unbalanced load in your electrical system.
Faulty Equipment
An infrared analysis of your individual equipment in your company can help to identify which equipment has anomalies.
An infrared thermography will highlight the exact areas of the fault in your equipment. This will save you time and the cost of having to manually troubleshoot your equipment.
Overall, a panel and infrared inspection will help you to detect any faults in your system before they cause any problems.
As a result, infrared analysis and panel inspection are in the predictive maintenance fault-finding category.
Get an Infrared Analysis and Panel Inspection Today!
If you want to guarantee the safety of your company and don’t want to have any electrical downtime, it is time to do a panel inspection or infrared analysis of your entire electrical system or just specific equipment.
Reach out to Tercero INC. to have a team of skilled and certified electricians come and do an infrared survey of your system while keeping your employees and building safe.
