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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).

Infrared - Condition Monitoring (Español)

Inspeccionando cajas reductoras y de cambios

Esta es una imagen de una caja reductora en el cambio de baja velocidad. Un rodamiento está más caliente que el otro.

Electric Motor Testing (EMT)

Service Factor & Temperature Rise: How Motors Keep their Cool

When it comes to electric motor testing and maintenance, one of the chief concerns is motor temperature.  In an effort to keep motors from ove

Infrared - Buildings

Watch Out for Thermal Capacitance

Various building materials require different amounts of heat energy to reach the same temperature when a transient event occurs.

Infrared - Condition Monitoring

Route Building: A Quick How-To

If you do an internet search on Reliability you’ll get thousands of hits with links to hundreds of sites for companies that are heavily ve

Infrared - Condition Monitoring (Español)

Consideraciones de inspecciones Eléctricas en exterior

La termografía infrarroja ha sido utilizada desde los años sesenta para inspeccionar equipos eléctricos.

Electric Motor Testing (EMT)

Megger Testing: Is It Enough?

Electric motors have been used in industry for nearly 150 years.  The Gramme Machine, the first electric motor, was discovered quite by accide

Infrared - Buildings

Challenges in Using Infrared Thermography to Detect Moisture in Buildings - Part Two

Water can be the single most destructive element that causes deterioration of materials and failure of building assemblies.  It can cause or a

Infrared - Condition Monitoring

Inspecting Reducers and Gearboxes

This is an image of a reducer on the low speed shaft end. One bearing is hotter than the other.

Think Thermally de The Snell Group (Français)

L’inspection des roulements par thermographie infrarouge

Lorsque vous entendez « équipement rotatif », que pensez-vous?

Nondestructive Testing (NDT)

What is Active NDT Thermography?

The adage, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” is true when identifying fluid/water ingress into metallic and composite honeycomb sandwich p