“It is critical to ensure switchboard are operating under optimum conditions, and pro-active maintenance techniques, can help to prevent such losses from switchboard fires happening.”
Every building has a maintenance team to monitor the conditions within. However, we do understand that there are limitations of these teams. They are only able to rectify the situation when it happens.
To identify the conditions of the switchboards and that they are operating under optimum conditions, there are 3 aspects to conduct pro-active maintenance.
- Physical Visual Inspection
- Noise monitoring
- Temperature of switchboards and components
It is easily understood that physical visual inspection and noise monitoring has to be carried out by the maintenance personnel. As for temperature, the current practice is to employ Thermograph expertise whenever a problem is suspected. Some buildings may even conduct annual or once every two years to have thermography conducted. However, this cost is extremely high. This is also not able to pre-empt if a problem is going to occur.
Thermal Strip Indicator provides 24/7, 365 days updates of the temperature of the electrical, and however, thermal scan only provides the specified location, time and date of the scan.
