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Predictive Sensing: Catch Failures Before They Happenexpert · ~420 min

The Heat Coefficient — Catch a Failing Breaker Connection While It's Still Only Warm

Why do loose electrical connections almost always get discovered after they have already cooked a breaker or started a fire, when the thing that gives them away — the same load costing more heat this month than last — has been measurable from outside the closed panel the whole time?

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The Heat Coefficient — Catch a Failing Breaker Connection While It's Still Only Warm
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What you'll do

A load-normalized thermal watch on your closed breaker panel that Claude Code built — an MLX90640 thermal sensor and an ambient probe on a fixed mount, feeding a Python pipeline that turns each zone of the panel into a heat coefficient (how much temperature rise a given load costs it), fits that coefficient nightly with a confidence interval and a fit-quality score, compares each zone against its own history and against its peer zones, and refuses to report anything at all when its geometry, emissivity reference, or load alignment cannot be verified — plus a one-page evidence packet a licensed electrician can act on.