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Electric System IR Scan

At Mid South IR, we perform electric system thermographic infrared scans. An electric system infrared thermal imaging scan can pinpoint hot spots and anomalies due to overloaded circuits, unbalanced loads, loose and/or corroded connections.

The 2023 NFPA® 70B, Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance, now requires building owners and operators perform routine inspections of electrical equipment, which includes infrared thermal imaging. Mid South IR can help!

Save time and money to reduce or eliminate down time, unscheduled shutdowns, emergency repairs, loss of product, loss of equipment, or worse, loss of life. Many insurance carriers offer discounts for companies that regularly use infrared thermography surveys as part of their predictive maintenance program.

More and more insurance companies require annual infrared (IR) inspections of electrical systems and equipment. IR surveys are important for all electrical systems but particularly large or complex systems, new and existing. Routine infrared scans of building systems and components can yield four times the rate of return on predictive and preventative maintenance inspection cost. Savings are realized in labor, equipment, material, and product.

Prior to the routine use of predictive maintenance programs and infrared thermal imaging scans, electrical equipment that was not properly maintained accounted for a higher number of human life and industrial asset losses.

What we survey with IR scans:

• Utility Lines • Substations • Conductors • Buss Bars • Switch Gear • Disconnects •

• Main and Distribution Electrical Panels • Connections • Terminations • Capacitor Banks •

• UPS systems • Control and Transfer Switches • Motor Control Centers • Motors •

• Data Centers • Solar Arrays • Radiant Ceiling/Floor Heating Systems •

The (National Fire Protection Agency) NFPA 70B: Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance is a companion standard to the National Electric Code (NEC) and was developed through a standards development process approved by the American National Standards Institute. Formerly, NFPA 70B was a recommended practice but now is a standard.

NFPA 70B 4.1.3 “Without an EPM (Electrical Preventative Maintenance Program), management assumes a greatly increased risk of electrical failure and its consequences.”

11.17.1 “Infrared inspections of electrical systems are beneficial to reduce the number of costly and catastrophic equipment failures and unscheduled plant shutdowns.”

11.17.5 “Routine infrared inspections of energized electrical systems shall be performed annually prior to shut down. More frequent infrared inspections, for example, quarterly or semi-annually, shall be performed where warranted by loss experience, installation of new electrical equipment, or changes in environmental, operational, or load conditions.”

Why implement a systematic predictive maintenance program?

6.4 “The purpose of any inspection and testing program is to establish the condition of the equipment to determine what work shall be done and to verify that it will continue to function until the next scheduled servicing occurs. Inspection and testing are best done in conjunction with routine maintenance.” “The inspection and testing program is probably the most important function of a maintenance department in that it establishes what shall be done to keep the system in service to perform the function for which it is required.”