| Description | This paper will discuss the application of aerial thermography surveying on a transmission electricalsystem, and new applications involving insulator failure detection and new research in wood armdeterioration.The goal is to show the approach to an aerial survey from pre-planning the actual patrol to follow upreporting. The recent blackout of 2002 has placed more emphasis on proactive preventive maintenanceprograms. An identified component repair can be performed at 25% of the cost, versus a reactive un-planned approach. This excludes the loss to generators due to bottleneck flow. My analogy to this issimilar to a toll hwy. When open the client is profiting when closed they are not. |