Video not loaded due to miss\u00ading con\u00adsent.<\/p>\n Adjust set\u00adtings \u2192<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n As Kobus de Vil\u00adliers, Man\u00adag\u00ading Direc\u00adtor at Rein\u00adhausen South Africa, says, \u201cWe believe that the num\u00adber of pow\u00ader trans\u00adform\u00aders across Afric\u00adas south\u00adern regions that will need over\u00adhaul\u00ading will increase enor\u00admous\u00adly.\u201d The oper\u00ada\u00adtors are there\u00adfore faced with a huge logis\u00adti\u00adcal prob\u00adlem: Coun\u00adtries like Namib\u00adia, South Africa, and Botswana have decent infra\u00adstruc\u00adtures, but very few instal\u00adla\u00adtions where the work can be under\u00adtak\u00aden. The trans\u00adport routes are there\u00adfore long. \u201cAnd in Zim\u00adbab\u00adwe, Zam\u00adbia, and Mozam\u00adbique, trans\u00adport\u00ading trans\u00adform\u00aders is a logis\u00adti\u00adcal night\u00admare. Many pri\u00adma\u00adry sub\u00adsta\u00adtions are almost inac\u00adces\u00adsi\u00adble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n There are also very few roads that are in an accept\u00adable con\u00addi\u00adtion. The riv\u00ader routes through which the trans\u00adform\u00aders were once shipped are large\u00adly obstruct\u00aded by dams today. And if there are bridges, they are often not designed to with\u00adstand those kinds of loads. \u201cThis means we have to take ridicu\u00adlous detours. So, I asked myself: Wouldit not make much more sense to per\u00adform the high volt\u00adage tests on site?\u201d says de Vil\u00adliers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mobile high volt\u00adage tests allow us to cre\u00adate a more reli\u00adable net\u00adwork.\u201dNico de Jager, City Pow\u00ader Johan\u00adnes\u00adburg<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n G\u00fcn\u00adter Panz\u00ader from Rein\u00adhausen Ger\u00admany intro\u00adduced de Vil\u00adliers to Ralf Bergmann, CEO of HIGHVOLT \u2013 a long-estab\u00adlished com\u00adpa\u00adny that is part of the Rein\u00adhausen group and spe\u00adcial\u00adizes in high volt\u00adage mea\u00adsure\u00adment and test\u00ading. The three men met to dis\u00adcuss pos\u00adsi\u00adble mobile test solu\u00adtions. With this meet\u00ading in mind, de Vil\u00adliers then picked up the phone and placed a call to Dres\u00adden.<\/p>\n Kobus de Vil\u00adliers brought the test\u00ading truck to Africa. He cer\u00adtain\u00adly can\u00adnot com\u00adplain about a lack of orders com\u00ading in. (\u00a9 Craig Mannheim)<\/p><\/div>\n After main\u00adte\u00adnance, an error mes\u00adsage or com\u00admis\u00adsion\u00ading of a pow\u00ader trans\u00adformer, the truck-based team moves in and makes sure that every\u00adthing is work\u00ading 100 per cent as it should. (\u00a9 Craig Mannheim)<\/p><\/div>\n Set\u00adting up for the test in Johan\u00adnes\u00adburg: The pow\u00ader trans\u00adformer is only dis\u00adman\u00adtled if the test iden\u00adti\u00adfies a fault, thus sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly reduc\u00ading costs for oper\u00ada\u00adtors. (\u00a9 Craig Mannheim)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n On the receiv\u00ading end of de Vil\u00adliers\u2019 phone call was Mario Jochim at HIGHVOLT. For a num\u00adber of years now, HIGHVOLT has been con\u00adstruct\u00ading trucks with inte\u00adgrat\u00aded test\u00ading tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy and sta\u00adt\u00adic fre\u00adquen\u00adcy con\u00advert\u00aders \u2013 equip\u00adment which can be used to con\u00adduct induced volt\u00adage tests or no-load loss mea\u00adsure\u00adments in the field, to name a cou\u00adple of exam\u00adples. Nor\u00admal\u00adly, oblig\u00ada\u00adtory tests of this kind require dis\u00adman\u00adtling the entire pow\u00ader trans\u00adformer, remov\u00ading the oil and trans\u00adport\u00ading the trans\u00adformer to a facil\u00adi\u00adty for test\u00ading, before bring\u00ading it back, replac\u00ading the oil, and recon\u00adnect\u00ading the equip\u00adment.<\/p>\n \u201cIf a trans\u00adformer can\u2019t come to the test facil\u00adi\u00adty, the test facil\u00adi\u00adty goes to the trans\u00adformer.\u201dKobus de Vil\u00adliers, MR South Africa <\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As Jochim explains: \u201cThis involves a lot of time and huge finan\u00adcial out\u00adlay, both of which can usu\u00adal\u00adly be avoid\u00aded by using a mobile test\u00ading sta\u00adtion.\u201d Test\u00ading trucks are the per\u00adfect solu\u00adtion for south\u00adern Africa \u2013 and to date there has been noth\u00ading in the wider area to pro\u00advide this ser\u00advice. On de Vil\u00adliers\u2019 order, two mobile sta\u00adtions were brought in \u2013 one for alter\u00adnat\u00ading cur\u00adrent, the oth\u00ader for direct cur\u00adrent \u2013 and Rein\u00adhausen set to work.<\/p>\n After a few ini\u00adtial deploy\u00adments in the Johan\u00adnes\u00adburg area, the trucks will soon make their way to oth\u00ader coun\u00adtries in the region with ten Rein\u00adhausen experts on board. As de Vil\u00adliers puts it: \u201cThey will main\u00adly be used for stan\u00addard high volt\u00adage tests at pow\u00ader trans\u00adform\u00aders, which need to be car\u00adried out when a fault has been report\u00aded, after main\u00adte\u00adnance has tak\u00aden place, or before com\u00admis\u00adsion\u00ading.\u201d Now, trans\u00adform\u00aders will only be dis\u00adman\u00adtled and shipped off to a trans\u00adformer facil\u00adi\u00adty if they actu\u00adal\u00adly show signs of a defect \u2013 not as stan\u00addard prac\u00adtice.<\/p>\n 1. Induced volt\u00adage test<\/strong><\/p>\n 2. No-load loss mea\u00adsure\u00adment<\/strong> \u201cIn this way, we can help our cus\u00adtomers real\u00adize huge cost sav\u00adings.\u201d City Pow\u00ader, the util\u00adi\u00adty provider for Johan\u00adnes\u00adburg that had Africa\u2019s first mobile high volt\u00adage test per\u00adformed, is one exam\u00adple of where these sav\u00adings could arise. Nico De Jager, a city coun\u00adcilor respon\u00adsi\u00adble for infra\u00adstruc\u00adture, is excit\u00aded about the con\u00adcept: \u201cThese mobile high volt\u00adage tests are an extreme\u00adly cost-effec\u00adtive solu\u00adtion for us. As we can car\u00adry out appro\u00adpri\u00adate diag\u00adnos\u00adtics analy\u00adses based on the data they pro\u00advide, they also allow us to make more informed deci\u00adsions about the main\u00adte\u00adnance and repair work nec\u00ades\u00adsary for our high volt\u00adage trans\u00adform\u00aders. This means we can deliv\u00ader a more reli\u00adable sup\u00adply of pow\u00ader.\u201d<\/p>\n Even the very first deploy\u00adment of one of the test\u00ading trucks in Johan\u00adnes\u00adburg attest\u00aded to this. A fault was report\u00aded in the net\u00adwork, but it was unclear whether a pow\u00ader trans\u00adformer was the cause of it. The Rein\u00adhausen truck swung into action and, after just a few days, dis\u00adcov\u00adered that the trans\u00adformer was com\u00adplete\u00adly intact \u2013 so the fault was locat\u00aded else\u00adwhere. As de Vil\u00adliers says: \u201cNor\u00admal\u00adly, the trans\u00adformer would have had to be dis\u00adman\u00adtled and test\u00aded at a facil\u00adi\u00adty \u2013 mean\u00ading months\u2019 worth of down\u00adtime. City Pow\u00ader would have had to spend in the region of 13 mil\u00adlion rand just to find out that every\u00adthing was okay. 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