Hosted by: Jon Giesecke / Master's level
Over 30 years of IRT on substation components and oil filled power transformers will be presented in an easy-to-follow format. The presenter – Mr. Jon Giesecke – is a level III Infrared thermographer who has dedicated 57 years to learning about all forms of diagnostic tools and is ready to provide you and your team with his advanced knowledge.
In this e-lesson you will learn how to diagnose many substation components and transformer problems using infrared thermography. You will also learn tips and tricks to doing a quality examination that can only be obtained by over 30 years’ experience. Most of what will be presented is not found in any textbooks, so the value added by spending an hour with the author is priceless. There will be a Q&A session directly following the presentation.
About the author
Jon Giesecke
Mr. Giesecke is one of the world’s leading experts in combining technologies used in the in-service inspection of high voltage oil-filled power transformers and substation diagnostics. He has been training personnel worldwide in these methods for over 20 years with great success.
Prior to forming JLG Associates LLC in 2006, Giesecke was employed by EPRI Solutions as a senior project manager in the Substation Predictive Maintenance business area.
As a Senior Project Manager, some of his responsibilities included: the development and implementation of the Substation Predictive Maintenance Program (SPdM) at numerous electric utilities in the U.S. and abroad; Developing and Instructing an EPRI Solutions’ SPdM course; instructed portions of the EPRI Transformer Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics course and the EPRI Substation/Switchyard Predictive Maintenance course; Providing training, services and consulting to evaluate maintenance responsibility and advanced programs applied to switchyard/substation components.