Using IR to verify construction details of commercial facilities is another use of the technology. With the right conditions, thermography can be successfully used to verify placement of reinforcement grout in concrete masonry unit (CMU) walls. Editors Note: While thermography can detect the presence of grout...
Featured Tips
Featured Tips are exclusive articles for our Knowledge Briefs subscribers. They are updated and rotated weekly, written by Snell instructors and consultants for those interested or involved with infrared thermography and electric motor testing (EMT).
Infrared - Buildings
| Feb 07, 2024
Building inspections are considered the most difficult application for a Thermographer to accomplish. In-experienced Thermographers when first conducting home and building inspections frequently have considerable difficulty conducting these inspections. This inexperience often leads to misinterpreting thermal patterns or outright missing problems. The first thing we need...
Infrared - Condition Monitoring
| Feb 16, 2024
One of the benefits of holding an onsite thermography course is that we can customize the hands-on sessions so that facility can practice the newly acquired knowledge in field conditions. During these exercises, I have often seen a typical, yet potentially devastating, novice thermographer mistake. Pointing...
Electric Motor Testing (EMT)
| Jan 12, 2024
When performing energized electric motor testing on medium and high voltage systems, it is necessary to acquire data from potential and current transformers. PT’s and CT’s step down the line currents and voltage to much safer levels. To connect to these circuits, we need to know...