Who was involved in the development of the IFD?
Together with utilities, transformer manufacturers and others IFD Corporation designed, built and tested various units to arrive at the current product. A detailed version of the certified test report is available from CEA Technologies who sponsored the report itself. 17. This is such a good idea, why didn t someone think of it before? The development of the IFD to achieve the necessary sensitivity and satisfy the many requirements of electric utilities and transformer manufacturers required an innovative idea and then over 10 years of investigation, research and development, testing and prototyping before the IFD was ready for large scale manufacturing and installation in pole type transformers.