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Electrical maintenance

Electrical thermography, insulation resistance (megohmmeter), motor protection, motor capacitors and battery internal resistance.

Motor overload protection

Set the overload relay from full-load current and service factor (0.58 × FLA on wye-delta), check the trip class against starting and stall times, and size the NEC 430.52 fuse or breaker, contactor and conductors.

Overload, trip class, fuse

Motor capacitor kvar

Size a capacitor at the motor terminals: kvar for the target power factor, 90% of no-load reactive power self-excitation limit, typical table by size and poles, reduced current and the new overload setting.

kvar, self-excitation, relay

Battery internal resistance

Paste internal resistance, impedance or conductance readings by cell and get each deviation from commissioning baseline or string average, cells on watch or to replace, and the trend across readings.

mΩ, impedance, conductance

Electrical thermography

Classify hot spots in panels, connections, breakers and cables by temperature difference (NETA criteria), correct for inspection load and estimate the temperature at full load.

ΔT, NETA, priority, load

Insulation resistance (megger)

Correct the megohmmeter reading to 40 °C, compute the polarization index and absorption ratio, compare with the IEEE 43-2013 minimums, check the test voltage and track the inspection trend of motors and generators.

Megger, PI, IEEE 43 minimum