Success Story: The Cable Fault Locator from SCOPE accurately located a long pending critical fault in an LT Cable

One of the major thermal power plants from Northern India was living with the problem of an undetected cable fault for over two years on their LT Cable. Since this cable was used for Street lighting and had a backup line which used to power up the street lights, this faulty cable went into the …

Prelocation of Cable Faults using Time Domain Reflectometer Method

In a three-part series on underground cable fault location, we discussed various aspects of cable fault location – from types and causes of cable faults, methodology for identifying cable faults and finally, we illustrated the step-wise process for detecting faults in underground cables.  We also introduced the Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) method for identifying underground …