Hand a new thermographer a camera and point them at a live busbar chamber, and they will almost always call the brightest area as the fault. Sometimes they are right. Often they are not. Busbars are one of the places where the naive reading, hottest equals worst, breaks down most reliably, and understanding why is a good test of whether a survey is being run on physics or on colour.
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