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Cable fault equipment suits user vehicle fleets

A Megger product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 30, 2008

Megger can supply equipment for customers to install themselves in their own vehicle, providing installation advice and support as required.

Cable fault location often needs to be carried out at remote sites and even the most modern of cable fault locators could hardly be described as lightweight or easily portable.

The solution is to install fault location equipment in a suitably adapted road vehicle or trailer, so that it can be driven direct to the site where it's needed and be ready for immediate use.

Megger offers three options for vehicle-mounted fault location.

Megger can supply equipment for customers to install themselves in their own vehicle, providing installation advice and support as required.

Alternatively, customers can supply their own vehicle and Megger will install equipment to suit their requirements.

The final option is for Megger to supply a vehicle ready-fitted with cable testing equipment selected to meet the customer's needs.

To allow potential users to see the benefits of vehicle-mounted cable fault location equipment for themselves, Megger has produced a fully fitted demonstration vehicle, which is commencing an extended tour of locations throughout the UK and mainland Europe.

Whichever option the user selects, the equipment supplied will be based on products from Megger's PFL20 and PFL40A family of cable fault location and high voltage test equipment.

These test sets are designed to aid rapid, accurate location of cable faults in a wide range of power distribution cables, cutting costly downtime.

PFL20 testers offer HV proof testing at up to 20kV with surge energies up to 1500J, while the PFL40 models offer proof testing at up to 40kV and surge voltage up to 34kV with energies up to 2000J.

To ensure fast and convenient operation, the integral power supply can recharge the testers to full energy and voltage in as little as two seconds.

PFL20 and PFL40 cable fault locators feature a high-voltage test set, complemented by a time domain reflectometer (TDR).

The test set can be used to prove the integrity of cable networks or to confirm faults and an operator-selectable overcurrent trip is incorporated to protect the system under test in the event of a cable breakdown.

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