Faced with new regulations from EPA and CARB, and with the global emphasis on reducing SF6 emissions, EMT took on the challenge to bring the laboratory to the field. For the first time, field service engineers can carry a 4 pound analyzer with touch-screen color display, one-button operation, connect directly to the circuit breaker or switchgear and take samples directly from the SF6 asset, store the data with user input ID, then move to the next one.
One 10 minute warm up in the morning, then 5 minutes per test, the EMT AsserolyzIR can run for up to 5 hours + on its internal Li-Ion rechargeable battery pack allowing multiple tests to be one in substations where some locations may have up to 100 test points to sample. With other technologies available, instruments only measure up to 3 parameters requiring multiple instruments to be used, many of them weighing up to 50 lbs or more, and don't operate on batteries.
CONTACT:
Kevin York
EMT Americas
7433 Spout Springs Road
Suite 101-15
Flowery Branch, GA 30542
Phone: 678-654-6595
Fax: 770-965-6578
About the Author
Amy Fischbach
Field Editor
Amy Fischbach is the field editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission & Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].