The slack joint
Increased connection resistance produces a local hotspot that can be found during a live survey.
AMKA Engineering / Thermography Inspection
Electrical thermography in Malaysia
Find overheating before it becomes a shutdown.
AMKA surveys live electrical panels, switchboards and terminations under normal operating load. You receive thermal evidence, a severity rating and a written action for every anomaly, without shutting down the screening scope.
Free proposal & quotation · Based in the Klang Valley · Nationwide service
Asset lists and BQs can be attached to the request
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Actual AMKA field evidence Connection hotspot 64.3 °C
11.9 °C above the comparison point. Recorded while the equipment remained in service.
Surveyed live Finding rated Action in writing
01 / What the camera catches
Read the heat pattern against the operating context.
Anything failing by resistance shows as heat — and one failure mode shows as its absence.
AMKA / Decision guide
Read the pattern, then the context
01 / ThermographyHeat at connections
02 / InterpretationReference + load + severity
The overworked circuit
An overloaded circuit can run hot. The thermal pattern must be read against its operating load.
The uneven phases
Uneven phase temperatures need checking against the measured current on each phase.
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.
The loose connection
A slack joint cooking quietly — left alone, this is how panels burn.
The overload
Two contactors far above everything around them — heat long before the trip.
The failing breaker
Identical breakers side by side, one running hot — the comparison is a finding to interpret in context.
The cold one
Failure reads in both directions — dead capacity hides until the day you need it.
03 / What the survey can show
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.