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THERMOGRAPHY
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Industrial Electrix regular
feature on infrared images
from members of the
Australian Professional
Thermography Association Inc.
THERMOGRAPHY OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS. “THE LOOSE CONNECTION”
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ou will have seen it in many, if not most reports, a statement
under the analysis comment: “Loose connection”. However,
often the reality is that it is not just a loose connection.
What we can say, with great surety, is that when we find a
warmer part of an electrical component, we are dealing with
higher resistance with some current going through it. Most of these
thermal anomalies will therefore be a high resistance connection
or contact.
At a survey recently we found this thermal anomaly on the left
phase load side of a contactor.
We measured 150°C at the connection at the bottom,
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