Borescope Inspection Camera Application

Borescope Inspection Camera Applications

Borescope Inspection Camera

Applications for inspecting inaccessible areas range from the mundane like finding keys you dropped in the air vent in the dashboard of your car:

Borescope to retrieve keys in BMW

To completely critical like in a nuclear power plant.  The solution for the more consumer oriented problems for homeowners like looking into walls for mold, or air conditioning duct work, discovering damages to machines, inside pipes that are blocked, all are now problems that are solved by a Borescope Inspection Camera.

Until recently- especially since the last 5-7 years most all borescope inspection cameras and devices were not distributed to consumers in online sales platforms.  They were sold by independent sales distributors, sales venues online, through manufacturers representatives, or directly from the manufacturer.  Now that the prices have fallen to as low as $20 for a USB cable- just about anyone can own a Borescope Inspection Camera to solve their various searching in dark wall cavities, under the hood of the car or in vents, pipes and plumbing.

Traditionally, the most common market for Borescope Cameras are in inspection of turbine engines.  Borescopes for Aviation inspections such as the Pratt Whitney of Canada PT6 Turbine engine.  The gas turbine market is not solely for small aircraft Business Jet aircraft such as the Cessna Citation, The Gulfstreams, and other business jets.  The largest market and user base continues to be all commercial airlines manufactured by Boeing and Airbus that have Rolls Royce, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney Gas turbine engines.   There are specific models of Borescope Inspection Cameras for remote visual inspection of Hydro Electric plants of Steam Turbines used in Power generation for creating electricity.  These markets have a variety of turbines that are routinely inspected visually and are routinely put on scheduled maintenance cycles.  Other manufacturers of Turbines include Solar, Siemens and Capstone with their micro turbines.   There are various maritime ship applications of gas turbines that also must be visually inspected, however most fleets operate with diesel engines due to cost.  Diesel engine maintenance of container ships and passenger cruise line ship engines have scheduled maintenance for borescopes and a frequent need for inspection cameras to monitor internal engine health.