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any potential problems and impending failures. Their goal is to increase their generators’ life expectancy and reliability and decrease the rate of unforeseen failures and outages. That is why they decided to invest in a continuous PD monitoring system that they could integrate into their overall condition monitoring system. This enabled them to trend the insulation condition throughout their generators’ remaining service life to plan maintenance and eventual replacement ahead of time. What specifically led you and your customer to select the MONGEMO system? We were and continue to be very impressed with the MONGEMO continuous PD monitoring system. There are various reasons why we decided it was the right solution for our customer. Specifically, the MONGEMO system is robust enough for harsh industrial environments. It’s easy to install and is scalable for monitoring an expanding The MONGEMO system trends PD activity when generators are online. Increasing levels of PD activity often indicate developing insulation defects, which triggers warnings and alarms indicated in the event log and notifies operators via email. An example of the gas turbine generators used to produce power at an oil & gas refinery in Malaysia. 14

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