Design Verification - Temperature Rise
What is Temperature Rise?
Temperature Rise is an aspect of 60439 Type Testing Assemblies or 61439 Verification, this is designed to ensure that temperatures around the switchboard do not exceed the limits, this being all relative to the ambient temperature. This is the temperature rise above the ambient, commonly represented as K 'Kelvin', the true measure of temperature. This is the test of ensuring that the temperatures monitored within the switchboards do not exceed the maximum temperature rise, and therefore do not DERATE the system.
What Switchgear Manufacturers must do
Modern day systems and the greater implementation of increasingly compact systems and in turn optimisations of components puts increasing pressure on switchgear manufacturers to ensure that their temperature rise within their panels is within the maximum allowances, this to ensure the system is a fully rated system and minimise the risk of failure due to exceeding temperatures.
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