High Voltage and Industrial

Ofil has manufactured a specific camera called the Ofil DayCor® Rail Corona Inspection System, that is optimised for the railway industry. It is designed to detect corona, arcing and partial discharge automatically, even at high speeds, and can be used to capture videos and images and create on-the-fly report. Continue reading →

Ofil offers a huge selection of genuine imaging cameras which make corona discharge and arcing activity visible. What is corona discharge?  Why do we want to reduce it?  How can it be visible? Continue reading →

A fundamental part of the construction, installation and maintenance of buried utilities is digging holes in the ground. During every excavation there is a risk of damaging buried services. Today telecommunication cables often join the utility lines underground, so locating them is more complex now than it was in the past. Continue reading →

High voltage (HV) equipment is extremely dangerous. Having the right training and equipment to work safely with HV equipment is not just good practice; it could be the difference between life and death. Continue reading →

Hioki Memory HiLoggers record up to 105 channels of data wirelessly using Bluetooth® technology, capturing parameters such as voltage, temperature, resistance or humidity signals. Some models provide complete isolation between channels and high noise resistance. Continue reading →

A Liverpool worker is ‘lucky to be alive’ after cutting through a live mains cable, having been told been told the electricity supply had been disconnected, Liverpool Magistrates’ Court heard last week. Continue reading →

Calibrating instruments, tools and meters ensures that they generate correct results, and calibration is best implemented by laboratories able to provide UKAS certified calibrations carried out in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standards. Continue reading →

The calibration of analogue signals from myriad sensors and transducers in a process plant is essential not only to ensure correct readings on instruments but also for the feedback signals required for stable process plant operation. Continue reading →

Three-phase power quality analysis has never been more affordable with the launch of the Fluke 1730 energy logger, which is 25 percent cheaper than earlier models. Three-phase AC electrical supply has a number of advantages over single-phase as the phase currents cancel each other out, allowing reduced neutral wire size in the case of star wiring or to eliminate it altogether in the case of delta wiring. Continue reading →

Each year about 1000 accidents at work involving electric shocks or burns are reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Around 30 of these are fatal, most of them arising from contact with overhead or underground power cables. Continue reading →