AMKA Engineering / Thermography Inspection

Electrical thermography services, under real load.

Loose connections, overload and imbalance show as heat long before they show as a trip. An infrared survey reads every panel, joint and termination while the plant keeps running — no shutdown for the screening scope — and every anomaly arrives rated, in writing. Klang Valley based, working across Malaysia.

Thermography reads the heat path. It cannot see insulation-discharge activity inside closed switchgear — that is what TEV and airborne ultrasound are for. The two answer different failure questions and are run together in the Electrical Health Assessment. If you are still deciding which method the situation calls for, start from electrical inspection and condition monitoring.

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Free proposal & quotation · Based in the Klang Valley · Serving clients across Malaysia

Infrared thermography Which connection is running hot right now?

The survey Every joint, under load Panels, boards and terminations — live

The report Every anomaly rated Temperature rise against severity classes

01 / What the camera catches

Four ways a healthy-looking panel is lying.

Anything failing by resistance shows as heat — and one failure mode shows as its absence.

Loose connections

The slack joint

Resistance rises, heat follows — invisible from outside the panel until it burns.

Overload

The overworked circuit

Heat arrives long before the trip — and heat is what ends in fire.

Imbalance

The uneven phases

Load shared unevenly reads as one phase warmer than its neighbours under the same current.

Failure reads cold, too

The dead element

A unit running cold among working neighbours is capacity already lost — found the same way.

02 / Real finds

Faults, as the camera found them.

Every one of these was on a live board that looked perfectly normal to the eye.

FLIR thermal image of a breaker's bottom terminals with one connection glowing at 64.3 degrees — 11.9 degrees above the neighbouring phase — FIG.01Sp2 at 64.3 °C — 11.9 °C over its neighbour

The loose connection

A slack joint cooking quietly — left alone, this is how panels burn.

FLIR thermal image of a low-voltage board where two contactors glow at 86.8 degrees against a 32 degree background — FIG.02Peak 86.8 °C on a 32 °C board

The overload

Two contactors far above everything around them — heat long before the trip.

FLIR thermal image of a row of breakers where one unit's connections glow hot against its neighbours — FIG.03One breaker against its neighbours

The failing breaker

Identical breakers side by side, one running hot — the comparison is the diagnosis.

FLIR thermal image of a bank of units where the boxed one runs visibly cooler than its glowing neighbours — FIG.04One cold among the hot

The cold one

Failure reads in both directions — dead capacity hides until the day you need it.

Three Danger-class finds from one client’s report →

03 / What the survey proves

Rated findings — and the limits, stated.

Does the plant have to stop?: The opposite — the survey needs the equipment running under real load, because a de-energised joint makes no heat. Nothing is opened beyond agreed covers, and nothing is shut down.
What does a rating mean?: Each anomaly is classified by its temperature rise against a reference — from monitor-and-recheck through to immediate corrective action. The classification logic is stated in the report, not left as our private opinion.
What can the camera not see?: Insulation discharge inside MV switchgear — it produces sound and voltage transients, not useful heat. That is a different instrument: the PD screen.
What does it cost?: Per asset, shaped by panel count, access and report depth — the full cost anatomy is published in what thermography actually costs in Malaysia, so you can sanity-check any quote, including ours.
How often should it be done?: Yearly as the default, six-monthly for equipment in poor condition or carrying open findings — the condition-based logic, and where it comes from, is set out in how often thermography should be done.

Next step

Heat is one of the two ways a board fails.

Discharge in the insulation is the other — and the Electrical Health Assessment reads both paths in one visit. Name the site, the assets and the urgency, and the free proposal sets the scope, boundaries and price in writing.

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