COURSE PREFACE

The Field Fault Locating course will focus on developing advanced skills with special emphasis on using the open and resistive fault locating modes, actual field exercises will be conducted utilizing known recorded defective pairs. This process will eliminate all simulated environments within the training structure and will enhance real world applications, thus building student confidence.

The purpose of this course is to train the technician so that maximum benefits will be derived from the use of the multi-functional test equipment.
 

OVERALL COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course the trainee will be able to:

• Demonstrate the knowledge and skill to locate resistive faults such

as shorts, grounds and battery cross, using the resistive fault locating mode.
• Understand the principles of resistance and capacitance. Also to measure and locate opens, dirty opens, high resistance opens and to detect load coils.
• Utilize physical distance, resistive distance, capacitive distance, in order to interpret cable layout, when current plats are not available. (This method allows for proper calculations of cable gauges, unknown laterals and cable loops and routes.)
• Isolate buried service wires and cable faults within encapsulated and closed plant environments.