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Summary

This 24-minute DVD describes common types of primary cable faults, their characteristics, and how to test for each one. It covers equipment commonly used for fault testing, a seven-step method for finding faults, and safe procedures to follow when locating primary cable faults.

• Introduction – 4 minutes
  Describes and illustrates the characteristics of four types of faults: Low resistance faults, high resistance faults, dead shorts (shunt faults), and open faults.
  
• Equipment – 6 minutes
  This section covers nine pieces of equipment used to locate faults: Fault indicators, hi-pot adapters, megohmmeters, time domain reflectometers (TDRs), DC hipots, thumpers, burners, impulse detectors, and cable locators.
  
• Seven-Step Method – 5 minutes
  How to troubleshoot a faulted cable situation, determine the characteristics of the faulted cable, de-energize the cable, and analyze the fault.
  
• Prelocation – 4 minutes
  It’s important to avoid excessive thumping of cables. How to set up a TDR and use it to determine the distance to, and the nature of, low resistance, open, and dead-short faults.
  
• Arc Reflection – 5 minutes
  High resistance faults can be difficult to locate. Sometimes it is easier to “burn” the fault until it is a low resistance fault. This is not always an ideal approach. The video offers the arc reflection method as an alternative. Us