Technical Articles

Megger has published these technical articles:

Getting Down To Earth. A Practicle Guide To Earth Resistance Testing
(Electrical and Electromagnetic Sensing)
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Nothing is quite so common or abundantly available throughout the world as the earth's soil. We are more apt to think of earth as something to be tilled for planting or to be excavated for a building...
Guide to Clamp-On Ground Testing
(Electrical and Electronic Test Equipment)
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Testing the quality of the grounding system has been a critical part of any electrical maintenance program for many years. Ground electrodes are used to provide a safe path to earth for the...
The Complete Guide To Electrical Insulation Testing
(Electrical and Electronic Test Equipment)
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WHAT IS "Good" insulation? Every electric wire in your plant - whether it's in a motor, generator, cable, switch, transformer, etc. - is carefully covered with some form of electrical insulation. The...
The Megger Guide to Battery Testing
(Electrical and Electronic Test Equipment)
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Now that we know everything there is to know about battery chemistry, except for Tafel curves, ion diffusion, Randles equivalent cells, etc., let's move on to battery construction. A battery must have...
The Megger Guide to Oil Breakdown Dielectric Testing
(Electrical and Electronic Test Equipment)
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Oils that combine a high flashpoint with high dielectric strength have long been used as an insulating medium in transformers, switchgear and other electrical apparatus. To ensure that the dielectric...
Time Domain Reflectometers-Applications
(Wire and Cable)
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TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER - TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Two side-by-side conductors that are separated by an insulator (as in a cable) have a characteristic impedance between them. If the distance between the...