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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).

Electric Motor Testing (EMT)

Using Impedance and Resistance to Localize Fault Location

Use of impedance values can provide a rapid and fairly conclusive means of localizing the source of anomalous data to the rotor, stator or motor ci

Infrared - Buildings

The Impact of Wall Shading

As the sun fails to climb very high in the sky these days, at least in the northern hemisphere, the shadows it casts can become long and influentia

Infrared - Condition Monitoring

Have Remote Battery Charging Capabilities

If you were asked as a thermographer to try and identify the weakest link to be found with the variety of modern (i.e. reliable & feature

Nondestructive Testing (NDT)

Thermal NDT and Eye Color Deficiency

It is a good practice, and a requirement for most NDT programs, that personnel working in thermal NDT to take an annual vision acuity exam and colo

Think Thermally de The Snell Group (Français)

Bâtir un itinéraire d’inspection

Si vous recherchez sur internet Reliability (Fiabilité des équipements) vous obtiendrez des milliers de résultats avec des liens

Infrared - Condition Monitoring (Español)

Construcción de rutas de Inspección: Guía rápida

Si se realiza una búsqueda en internet de ‘Mantenimiento Centrado en la Confiabilidad’ o RCM (por sus siglas en inglés), se podría obtener miles de

Infrared - Condition Monitoring (Español)

La importancia de remover la cubierta de los paneles

Un error común realizado por muchos programas de termografía es no realizar inspecciones infrarrojas de paneles de potencia e iluminación, o no con

Electric Motor Testing (EMT)

Mechanical Fault Analysis

The ability to identify mechanical faults will be directly related to the amount and accuracy of collected drive train data.  Vendor software

Infrared - Buildings

Following the Rules: Your Best Bet for Buildings

Many people, upon learning the applicability of infrared thermography for building inspections, are anxious to try it.  I know I was.

Infrared - Condition Monitoring

The Importance of Removing Panel Covers

A common mistake made by a number of thermography programs is skipping infrared inspections of power and lighting panels or failing to properly acc