T&D Buyer's Guide

We rent and support electrical testing equipment. We have more resources, more capability, and more inventory to serve the electrical testing and power industries. Our passion to the industry is unwavering. We pride ourselves on customer service and technical expertise on the equipment we rent. 

We carefully select the right equipment for your rental, prepare it in real-world conditions, complete for the application. It’s field ready.

Testing needs support; the apparatus, the test equipment, the technician, and the job. It’s all we do. 

We make the connection between logistics and the job, wherever it is. Putting a label on a box isn’t enough. We proactively monitor the shipment, adapt, and ensure delivery commitment. 

Doble Engineering Company is a global leader in diagnostic test equipment, software and engineering services for the electric power industry. Founded in 1920, it helps utilities and energy asset owners improve reliability, assess system health, and optimize operations through advanced diagnostics and expertise worldwide.

AFL's conductor accessories provide superior performance and reliability for electric power utilities and rail companies. Drawing on the experience gained from over 80 years designing and manufacturing accessory products, AFL's conductor accessories improve the reliability of critical electrical and optical infrastructure used for the transmission and distribution of electricity.

Our products are manufactured in Duncan, SC in a facility that is certified to ISO 4001 and ISO 9001:2008 standards. AFL’s product offering includes the following:

• Substation accessories — Swage bus accessories including couplers, end caps, terminal taps, expansion supports and more; Swage cable accessories including couplers and terminals; both bolted and welded accessories (supports, couplers, connectors, expansions, taps, terminals, reducers, bus vibration dampers, stud connectors, end plugs and hardware) for voltages up to and including 765kV
• Substation — bus conductors (round, integral web, rectangular bar, channel, universal angle bus, and rectangular bar).
• Transmission accessories — Hi-Temp® compression, standard compression, quick compress and IMPACCT® (Implosive Accessory Technology)
• Rail Transit system accessories — high-speed rail systems, light rail systems, trolley and streetcar systems, 3rd rail systems and complete electrified transit overhead
• Fiber optic cable hardware — dead ends, suspensions, tangents, splice enclosures, snow shoes, attachment hardware and come-a-longs
• Motion control — stockbridge-type vibration dampers, spacers, spacer dampers and software for Aeolian vibration protection
• Wire products — Copperweld strand and solid wire
• Network underground accessories — multi-outlet insulated connector bars, mechanical socket and core compression system, transformer stud connectors, over-current protection devices and explosion-proof protective shells
• Tools and compounds — hydraulic presses, pumps, dies and the new ConductaClean®

The conductor accessories facility has also built an impressive record of environmental stewardship with a recycling rate for paper, wood, metal and plastic exceeding 90 percent, an aggressive storm damage expedite program and a carbon footprint effort aimed at reducing total energy each year by three percent.

We are committed to taking a proactive approach to our customers’ needs, acting with integrity and delivering as promised. AFL understands that it is about quality products and building a strong relationship with every customer.

Sediver is the pioneer and industry leader in high voltage toughened glass insulation technology for more than 75 years. Our outstanding track record confirms the quality of our products, with 650  million toughened glass insulators in service, on both AC&DC lines, in 150 countries and every climatic condition. In North America, nearly 40M  Sediver glass insulators have been providing reliable service to more than 100 utilities since more than 50 years.

Sediver Research Center has developed state of the art smart solutions for real-time monitoring of leakage current & predictive maintenance. Sediver technical assistance team helps support our  customers by providing T/ line insulation design expertise and testing of aging insulators for end-of-life diagnostics.

Sediver offers a full range of:

• Cap & Pin toughened glass insulators for AC & DC Transmission lines (ANSI & CSA standards), with M&E Ratings up to  200 000 lbs (860 KN).

• Glass suspension insulators for distribution lines 15-69KV,

• RTV coated glass insulators (Sedicoat) for polluted environments.

• Glass Insulators for insulated HV/T-line shield wires.

• Large diameter glass insulators for mitigation of bird droppings on suspension strings.

Testing facilities in the USA

Sediver's West Memphis laboratory regularly performs such work, providing US utilities with clear factual diagnostics.

• State-of-the-art testing equipment

• Sediver’s unique expertise in the evaluation of the results

• Full support from Sediver’s extensive R&D Team

• Experience with complex case studies for refurbishment/upgrades of AC and DC lines

Evluma manufactures LED lighting products that assist universities, utilities and municipalities replace and retrofit existing HID fixtures. The OmniMax LED replacement lamp is the ‘Perfect Fit’ for decorative post top lighting. Evluma's AreaMax is “The Utility Standard” for street and area lighting. All Evluma products operate with ConnectLED Bluetooth controls. Now offering a full line of globes for post top fixtures!

High Voltage, Inc. designs and manufactures industry-leading high voltage test equipment for proof testing, diagnostic testing,  high voltage breakdown testing, and preventative maintenance testing. Trusted for the most technically-advanced, portable, and user-friendly high voltage equipment on the market. HVI test sets are used worldwide by utilities, testing service companies, electrical contractors, large industrial factories, and electrical apparatus OEMs.

HVI has been an essential supplier of electrical testers and test kits for over 20 years. Our familiarity with the regulations and procedures inherent to this industry make us more than a supplier or manufacturer, but a partner. Customers turn to HVI for its high-quality testing equipment, unparalleled customer support, and its commitment to sharing deep industry knowledge in an approachable, helpful way.

By working closely with technicians and professionals like you, we have been able to consistently innovate new technologies and solve real world problems with custom solutions. For the industry standard in high voltage testing equipment, you can rely on HVI.

Tech Products, Inc. Is your source for quality identification products to the utility, pipeline and (OEM) original equipment market including, utility pole markers, valve tags, machinery data plates and safety signs for substations and transmission towers.

Our Everlast® brand is in use on many of the fiber optic cables, pipelines, and distribution systems throughout the northern and southern hemisphere. It is a unique product that does not use ink to convey its message. In fact, our first customer, Delaware Electric Coop is still using the product to mark their poles today. 

Our Fasttag miniature cable marker product line has been used by the US military on its battleships, the energy industry to identify underwater cable and pipes on offshore oil rigs and many of the fiber optic cables of the cable industry.

Founded by Fouad Brikci, Ph.D., Zensol specializes mainly in instruments targeted at the electrical energy industry and maintenance services. 

Zensol has become the pioneer in a new testing method to detect problems in on line tap changers, circuit breakers and reclosers. We have the knowledge to use this innovative technology while the transformers and circuit breakers are on line. 

Designer by our engineers, they are portable and suitable for harsh environments (extreme temperatures from -40°C to +60°C). They are known for their sturdiness and their performance and a life expectancy of 15 years and more.