IR Windows

The IR Window is a Wintech Groupe innovation. Our IR windows are known for their performances and tested technological quality in many industrial sectors and research departments (businesses, engineering schools, public scientific organisations).

The IR windows are made of an optical crystal and a frame. It is a case of an optomechanical package which allows control by thermography. Wintech Groupe designs, creates and produces three ranges of IR windows meeting the specific requirements regarding the applications of measures and preventive maintenance of electrical equipment.

The range of H.VIR® IR windows: inspection windows intended for the thermographic maintenance of electrical equipment (transformers, switchgear, busbar, motors). Thanks to H.VIR® IR windows, it is possible to carry out maintenance testing on live equipment using thermography. Equipped with infrared cameras, thermographic technicians and operators have real protection from electrical arcs (start of fire).

The range of HVIS IR windows: inspection windows intended for visual monitoring. The H.VIS Electric Eye® IR windows are optomechanical packages composed of an optic and a frame. The main objective of the H.VIS Electric Eye® IR windows is to allow for visual inspection of electrical equipment. However, it can also be used for thermography, but with shortwave cameras (3 to 5 µm) only.

The range of FMIR IR windows: standardised interface windows allowing for measures intended for use in research and industry. You can create your FMIR IR windows by choosing the following assembling criteria (viewing diameter, mechanical frame material, minimum and maximum spectral domain, temperature range). The standardised FMIR IR windows are the fruit of our long experience in optics and optomechanics.

Wintech Groupe designed and manufactured several IR windows for different companies over the years, such as:

• the production of an FMIR window for the IRSN.
• the manufacture custom-made sapphire windows for MBDA.
• the manufacture of custom IR windows for ISAE-ENSMA.
• the production of IR windows for Rayonier Biorefinery.

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Infrared inspection, thermal cameras and IR windows can help you detect hotspots and prevent fire outbreaks within electrical enclosures, warehouses, etc. Essencial for electrical inspection, the use of IR windows allows to maintain the equipment energised throughout the inspection.

Very few benefits in life come without a cost and, when only the initial costs are considered, this is true of IR windows fitted in electrical equipment enclosures. However, over the longer term, IR windows can actually deliver cost savings.

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