Thermography services in India: every HT and LT panel, transformer and inverter scanned under load, every hot spot graded and fixed before it becomes a fire.

VB prices thermography testing as a fixed figure per plant, built from scan days and the report. Scan days come from the panel count: on VB's modelled rates a two-person team covers about 30 HT sections, 60 LT panels or DBs, 20 inverters, UPS or APFC panels, 10 transformers or 6 BESS containers a day. Enter your counts in the plan on this page and a VB engineer returns the fixed price for your plant.

Indian plants commission thermography because the CEA (Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations, 2023 require installations to be inspected and kept safe, electrical safety audits under the Factories Act include a thermal survey, fire insurers ask for it at renewal, and multinational parents schedule it every year. IS 16168:2014 is the BIS guideline for how the inspection is done.

IS 16168:2014 is the Bureau of Indian Standards guideline for infrared thermography inspection of electrical installations. It is the Indian reference for planning a thermography survey, scanning live electrical equipment and reporting the findings. VB grades every finding to IS 16168 and shows the ANSI/NETA MTS equivalent for plants that follow a multinational group standard.

Most Indian plants scan once a year, aligned to the electrical safety audit or the insurance renewal. Plants with heavy loads, frequent tripping or a history of hot spots move to two scans a year, usually before the monsoon and after the peak-load season, with a re-scan of every repaired connection.

A VB thermography AMC covers two planned scans a year of the same plant, a re-scan of every repaired hot spot, a priority breakdown scan when a feeder trips or heats, and the same report format each visit so every connection can be trended. It is priced as one fixed yearly figure per plant.

There is no single acceptable temperature; what matters is the temperature difference between a component and a similar component under similar load. Under ANSI/NETA MTS Table 100.18, 1 to 3 °C is a possible deficiency, 4 to 15 °C a probable deficiency to repair as time permits, and above 15 °C a major discrepancy to repair immediately. VB grades to IS 16168 and reports both.

Many fire insurers and their surveyors ask for evidence that overheating risks in electrical installations are found and fixed, and a thermography report is the usual evidence. VB's report lists every finding, its severity, the action taken and the re-scan result, which is the content a surveyor looks for. Check the wording of your own policy and survey recommendations.

Thermovision survey is the term Indian utilities, railways and power plants use for an infrared thermography survey of a substation, switchyard or panel room. Isolators, jumpers, clamps, CT and PT terminals and bushings are scanned while they carry load, and every hot joint is reported with its temperature rise before the next shutdown.

When both are due, yes. The thermographer opens the same panels the arc flash study records, so one visit can scan every connection, collect arc flash field data and check the labels. NFPA 70E 130.5(G) asks for the arc flash risk assessment to be reviewed at least every five years, so an older study is reviewed on the same visit.