TRAVELING WAVE FAULT LOCATOR
Qualitrol’s traveling wave fault location solutions are fast to install and can be set up on multiple lines – no line or substation outage required.
What is a traveling wave fault locator? It’s a device that provides extremely precise fault locations on multiple lines, enabling operation and maintenance engineers to respond rapidly to events and to correct defects at minimum cost and maximum efficiency.
Features
- Best accuracy to ± 195 feet [± 60 meters] independent of impedance methods
- Reduce downtime by getting to the fault site faster
- Track intermittent self clearing faults and focus maintenance at the right spot to prevent a major breakdown
- Accurate results from circuit trips automatically displayed in the dispatch center within minutes of the event
- Maintenance crews alerted by email notification
- Display, keypad and USB port allow more interaction with the device
- Modular, reliable hardware
- Flexible communications
- Monitor 2, 4, 6, or 8 lines (TWS FL-8)
- Internal PSTN (V.90) modem (optional on COM 4)
Applications
Having traveling wave fault locators on interconnected overhead lines is important. Accurate, consistent results for all types of faults could be quickly, displayed in a control room or engineering center to direct maintenance teams and to reduce downtime.
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