How important is it for the surface of insulators to be hydrophobic? RTV coating makes insulators impermeable.
What happens if an electrical insulator is unable to repel water? it is essential that the insulator can prevent electric current.
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RTV Coating for Energized Conditions and What Does it Makes it so Reliable
Protect your line against flashovers without needing to shut it down with Flashover Insulators RTV Coating for energized conditions.
Wildlife-related Outages – Electrocution and Flashovers
Wildlife-related incidents on power systems has been increasing year by year. These uncontrollable events cause massive impact in terms...
High Voltage Insulator – Importance, Degradation and Maintenance
Insulators posses major and critical role in the electrical system. Insulators impede the flow of current from the line to the tower and...
Dealing with Corrosion Problems in Electrical Substation Equipment
Electrical substations are critical components of the power grid, ensuring the efficient transmission and distribution of electricity. To...
Unexpected Animal Encounters in the Electrical System
Electricity in this present time plays a major role in powering homes, businesses, buildings and industries globally. Living on the same...
Bird Electrocution: A Barrier to Avian Life
Bird electrocution: causes and solutions
Doble's Paper of the Month: RTV Coating
Read, watch and download the presentation about Room Temperature Vulcanizing (RTV) Silicone Coating
Bird Electrocution on Power Lines
One significant concern that accompanies the establishment of medium and high voltage networks is bird electrocution. This issue...
Washing vs Coating - Effective flashover mitigation
Washing vs coating the insulators
CORROSION – NATURE AND PREVENTION
Environmental factors contribute to the process of corrosion of material especially when the key elements are present such as oxygen or...
ANIMAL-INDUCED OUTAGES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
Animal-related outages run the gamut from momentary disturbances to long-term outages. Major portions of substations can be tripped offline,
Different types of High Voltage Insulators
Types of High Voltage Insulators
Power lines: Major threat to migratory birds
One of the reasons why power outages occur is due to bird migration. During a certain season, birds migrate to move from areas of low or...
Success Story: Animal outage protection in Hungary
Midsun IKM come up with a solution for the arising issues on power outages in Hungary due to aviation. Imad Kanouni, Midsun IKM CEO,...
How to apply high voltage insulator coating?
How to apply high voltage insulator coating? The RTV Silicone High Voltage Insulator Coating can be applied in these easy 4 steps.
What is causing your power outage?
Shockingly the reason behind hundreds or thousands of power outages are animals interfering with electrical equipment.
Corrosion in power distribution: how to avoid it?
Corrosion can be an aesthetic issue, but there is a high chance that it will also negatively affect the performance of a device or power...
Storks and high voltage networks
Most of the birds bridge on high voltage networks when taking off. But storks in particular are a threat. Get to know the solution!
4 ways to avoid insulator flashovers
Water washing, increasing the creepage level, using silicone grease and RTV coatings are the most common ways to avoid insulator flashovers
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