Photo Gallery - just some interesting pictures from past cases
A burned circuit board caused by a loose screw falling into the panel.
What happens when you vent a wood stove into the wall cavity (no chimney). Sometimes failures are just plain dumb.
Heavy equipment failures require experience - and patience. This one took hours.
This failed transformer is “detanked” to find the cause of the failure, and hopefully, fix it. Not this time.
An experienced electrician lost his life trying to install this at 100 cal/cm2. A case of miscommunication, lack of training, and time pressure.
A heater coil that overheated, caused by a failed thermal cutout (and an unwise design for heat control).
We suspected that a fire was caused by overvoltage. This failed electrolytic capacitor is what triggered that suspicion.
When it’s wired like this, is it a wonder that it failed?
Using Thermography to predict and prevent failures
We use thermographic photography to find incipient electrical failures before they occur. This photograph of a three-phase compressor disconnect shows that the load on the compressor is unbalanced, and the the center fuse is hotter than the other two. This led us to an incipient failure of the compressor which we were able to avert.