Circuit arrangement for locating high ohmic and intermittent cable faults

摘要

A circuit arrangement for the preliminary locating of high-impedance and intermittent cable faults, using the pulse echo method, in which a shockwave generator, known per se, for igniting the cable fault is connected via a nonlinearity for decoupling the pulses of the synchronous echo measurement from the shockwave generator and a resistor to the cable and furthermore a second voltage source is connected to the cable, which is suitable for maintaining the arc in a stable manner for the time of the measurement, following the ignition of the fault, and which is decoupled by an inductance with respect to the measurement pulses and by a diode with respect to the ignition voltage. IMAGE