How To Improve Transformer Bushing Monitoring Capabilities

For decades, operations in-charge of or making use of electrical transformers have sought newer and better methods of monitoring and assessing the general health and condition of those transformers. Due to the high-powered electrical currents that typically flow through such electrical transformers, keeping them in perfect working condition and without any flaws in the exterior insulation is of the utmost importance when it comes to maintaining safety standards. The problem, however, has always been how to achieve such monitoring without taking the transformers offline. With modern transformer bushing monitoring technology, making use of the sum of currents method, monitoring can now take place even while the transformers are online, reducing downtime and improving on safety standards.

 

Electrical transformers are typically used in situations where immense amounts of electricity are flowing through power lines or heavy equipment and thus safety becomes a real issue. Personnel working around such equipment must be fully protected from that electricity because such large amounts of electricity will easily kill a person if he or she is exposed to it. Sometimes, with extremely large amounts of electricity, it is not even necessary for a person to touch a piece of damaged equipment to be electrocuted and it is enough for them to be close enough for the electricity to travel through the air. While such situations are rare, they do happen and every precaution must be taken to ensure that such failures in safety do not occur in your operation.

 

Transformer bushing monitoring systems are one of the new monitoring systems that allow for on-line monitoring of transformers, and they make use of the sum of currents method to keep a continuous watch on the condition of transformers. By installing a transformer bushing monitoring system that makes use of the sum of currents method, your operation will no longer need to schedule nearly as many offline maintenance periods where the transformers have to be taken offline and the power supply cut in order for maintenance and checks to be carried out. Instead, safety standards can be maintained or even raised thanks to the improved technology found in modern transformer bushing monitoring systems that take advantage of the sum of currents method.

 

Some managers are reluctant to incur the added expense of purchasing and installing transformer bushing monitoring systems, insisting that such systems are a waste of money. The reality, however, is that a transformer bushing monitoring system that relies on the sum of currents method will most probably save an operation money in the long run not only by eliminating the need to take transformers offline on a regular basis, thus interrupting productivity, but also in the form of problems that would probably have developed in the absence of a proper monitoring system but which would be quickly and easily identified and addressed with a proper monitoring system in place.

 

A transformer bushing monitoring system that makes use of the sum of currents method to detect and identify problems in electrical transformers is an invaluable investment for any operation that makes use of such transformers. This is an investment that will pay for itself many times over and could save your operation a great deal of time, money and hassle.

 

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Dynamic Ratings offers the best transformer bushing monitoring systems in the industry, with equipment that relies on the sum of currents method for monitoring potential problems in electrical transformers, your operation will be well protected and safe from potentially catastrophic issues.