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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.9.401

Development of Coupler for Live Cable Fault Detection Based on Reflectometry  

Jeon, Jeong-Chay (Electrical Safety Research Institute, KESCO)
Oh, Hun (Department of Electrical Engineering, Wonkwang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.9, 2016 , pp. 401-406 More about this Journal
Abstract
When measuring live cable faults and their location based on reflectometry, a coupler is placed between the cable and the test system. This coupler prevents damage to the test circuits by indirectly measuring the live voltage of the cable using reflectometry. It also provides a coupling path that allows the transmission and receive signal to pass into the cable. In this study, we design and construct a contact coupler to locate faults in both dead and live cables using reflectometry. The proposed coupler is of the inductive coupling type and is constructed after the calculation of the signal transmission loss by simulation. The performance of the developed coupler is tested by measuring the transmission loss and frequency flatness. The results showed that the transmission signal loss is less than -1.98dB in the frequency bandwidth above 1 Mhz. The reflectometry system was designed based on sequence time domain reflectometry (STDR) and spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR) in order to apply it to the detection of faults and their location in live cables and tests on live cables were performed. The test results showed that the proposed coupler can be used in a reflectometry system for live cable fault detection.
Keywords
Coupler; Fault location; Frequency flatness; Live cable; Loss; Reflectometry;
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