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Digital thermal imaging cameras have established themselves as invaluable tools for building safety inspections. Thermal imaging cameras such as forward-looking infrared (FLIR) cameras perform noncontact temperature measurements to detect anomalous heat patterns in buildings. They can be used, for example, to find energy-wasting leaks in construction or gaps in electrical insulation. They can also provide heat signatures that reveal the condition of a power generator or motor in factories and production plants. Since some building inspections are performed in potentially dangerous environments, a safe imaging camera can provide a sharp vision of a safe building. But choosing the right digital or thermal imaging camera for a job requires an understanding of how these instruments work and some insight into some of the more important performance specifications. The right camera can pack a great deal of safety inspection into a portable handheld instrument.

Thermal imaging cameras use infrared

A manufacturing environment contributes significantly to the ultimate quality of a product built within its boundaries. Skilled personnel are essential for a solid production process. But a clean environment clears the way for the best product quality possible, without performance-degrading contamination from the production line. For any manufacturing facility, environmental testing helps monitor and maintain a workplace that is healthy for employees and supports production of the highest-quality manufactured goods. By measuring and monitoring unseen invaders within a manufacturing environment, such as moisture and microminiature particles, contamination can be found and, hopefully, minimized to create the purest possible manufacturing environment conditions. Modern environmental test gear can probe the workplace with high sensitivity and accuracy while being compact enough to be carried where needed. With versatile digital interfaces, the environmental test equipment can be remotely operated

Power quality monitoring ensures continuous, error-free operation of data centers. Without clean, stable power, racks of computer servers cannot be counted on to provide data in a moment’s notice. Power quality analyzers provide the measurements needed to check the status of the power flowing to those servers. The measurements must be accurate and precise because even minor power disturbances to data center servers can result in loss of data and expensive errors for all relying upon the data. 

Modern data centers serve constantly growing numbers of customers, including network operators and cloud operators with many of the customers relying on continuous service. Data centers guard against power failures and degradation of power quality via multiple backup energy sources, often combining diverse power sources, including sustainable renewable-energy and solar-power sources. As demand for data and the power to back it grows, data center power density grows along with it, often requiring

Electric vehicles (EVs) are rapidly gaining in popularity for their independence from fossil fuels and their environmental efficiency. They offer many advantages compared to vehicles with internal combustion engines but require powerful rechargeable batteries for their electric motors and other electronic systems. These batteries must withstand thousands of cycles of being recharged after, for example, discharging their energy during a drive. Rechargeable batteries that power EV electric motors are based on several chemistries and employ a wide range of architectures depending upon the vehicles they power.

Developers of EVs, their rechargeable batteries, and their on-board charging systems can analyze their characteristics and make them better with the help of bidirectional DC power supplies from Transcat | Axiom Rentals. These versatile instruments can source and sink electrical power over wide voltage ranges and can help better understand the impact of many charge and discharge cycles

Providing power for testing complex electronic devices requires reliable, high-performance AC sources which often also deliver DC power. Fortunately, Transcat | Axiom Rentals offers a variety of versatile sources that can not only supply AC/DC power but also monitor its electrical parameters over widely changing environmental conditions. To support AC/DC power testing according to numerous industrial and military standards, these power sources are available with software to coordinate standards-based AC/DC power testing with single-, two-, and three-phase power supplies.

Industrial and military standards provide guidelines for evaluating a device under test (DUT) on AC or DC power. Industrial standards such as IEC 61000-4-11 and IEC 61000-4-13 from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and military standards such as MIL-STD-704 are just a few of the solid guidelines for AC power testing; they are typically programmed into the test software available for modern AC power sources.