Bavaria, Germany
Mönchwald 220 kV
Night flight after a protection trip. The hottest contact of the year: a busbar joint at 102.3 °C.
5
ha
Area covered
20
min
Flight time
2
flagged
Anomalies found
102
°C
Hottest reading
Findings
Busbar joint B2-14 at 102.3 °C, priority 1
Breaker Q4 pole C 9 K above poles A and B
Debrief
The operator requested a flight within six hours of the trip. Plan, approval and flight took 47 minutes.
The joint was re-torqued during the following outage and re-flown: 36 °C.
Trip at two, aircraft up at five, joint found at five past.
Stefan Kraus, network operations
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