Power Cable Fault

Location

18th & 19th March 2009 A two day course at

EA Technology
Chester

This course will cover:

• Approach to fault location

• Methods of locating faults

• Use of equipment

• Cable diagnostics
Course Profile
This course will enable delegates to become more conversant with diagnosing faults on power cables.

The practical approach allows attendees to use a very broad range of fault location equipment.

The speakers have been selected for their industrial experience and expertise.

Benefits of attending Who should attend?

As a result of attending you will gain:
• An understanding of fault location techniques
• An appreciation of equipment used in fault location
• An opportunity to use fault location equipment
Engineering professionals working within the
electricity supply industry and related fields,
practising transmission and distribution
engineers, managers, cable engineers and
fitters, graduate trainees, manufacturers,
suppliers and contractors.

• An awareness of future developments The course can be used as a briefing for more
experienced engineers and managers
including those new to cables, particularly from
maintenance.

Speakers’ profiles
Steve Anderson has an impressive background in cable test equipment and fault location and has worked for
Biccotest Instruments, MW Test Equipment and is currently responsible for implementing all sales policies for the
Faraday House Group with particular responsibility for the BAUR range. He regularly presents technical papers,
runs training seminars, demonstrates equipment and undertakes very low frequency diagnostic testing of cables.
Vince Burgess is a senior consultant within the Cable Consultancy Group at EA Technology. Previously Vince
worked as a Development Engineer in the transformer division at Ferranti Ltd. He has over thirty years experience
in various aspects of distribution engineering and was responsible for the development of hydraulic methods for
locating leaks from pressure assisted fluid-filled cables.
Barry Clegg, recently UK Sales Manager with Hathaway, is now a consultant for training and cable fault location.
He is also the author of the book “Underground Cable Fault Location” (available at a special price of £40.00 to
delegates) written from his twenty years of experience in the supply industry as well as his time with instrument
manufacturers on cable fault location.
Steve McIntosh is a senior technical consultant who for the past eight years has worked within the cables
consultancy group at EA Technology. He has particular expertise in condition assessment and failure investigation
of cables and accessories. He has also had several years electrical engineering experience in Rosyth Royal
Dockyard and on several offshore installations.
Mark Wilding joined the services team at EA Technology in 1991, where he provided a varied range of technology
based technical services including high voltage testing and condition monitoring of electricity distribution equipment
in both laboratory and substation environments. In his current position as a Principal Consultant within the
Technical Services Group the majority of his work is associated with research, consultancy and technical services
relating to high voltage cables.

Venue Mollington Banastre Hotel and Spa

The course will be held in the Business
Centre of EA Technology, situated six miles
to the north of the beautiful and historic City
of Chester. The Business Centre comprises
high quality meeting and training facilities.
Situated two miles from the city of Chester, the
Mollington Banastre is set in eight acres of grounds and
gardens. All bedrooms are comfortably furnished, each with
en-suite bathroom, television, telephone and a welcome
refreshment tray. The hotel has its own leisure club with
pool, jacuzzi, sauna and steam rooms.
 Programme
Wednesday 18th March 2009 Thursday 19th March 2009
08:30 Registration and Coffee 09:00 Fault Location Methods – Part 3
• Pin-pointing – audio frequency, pool of potential
09:00 Introduction • Confirming, repairing & reporting
Terry Keenan, EA technology Barry Gregg

09:30 Cables & Mode of Failure 10:00 Equipment Overview

Barry Clegg, Consultant Steve Anderson

10:30 Coffee 10:30 Coffee

10:45 Fault Location Methods – Part 1 10:45 Practical Demonstrations – Part 2

Safety: Steve Anderson and Barry Clegg
• Hazards & Safety issues particular to fault
location 11:45 Oil Leak Location
• Cable identification & location Vince Burgess, EA Technology
Barry Clegg
Correct Approach 12:15 Lunch
• Diagnosis
• Pre-location – bridge methods 13:00 New Testing Techniques
Steve Anderson, BAUR Test Equipment Ltd • Vlf on polymeric cables
• Balancing vlf v power frequency
• PD Mapping
12:15 Lunch
• Sniffer
Mark Wilding, EA Technology
13:00 Fault Location Methods – Part 2
• Available equipment
• Pre-location – pulse echo, dynamic
methods • Vlf test sets – portable and test van systems
• Pin-pointing - acoustics Steve Anderson
Barry Gregg
14:00 Case Studies
Barry Clegg
14:30 Tea

14:45 Fault Investigation 14:30 Tea

Steve McIntosh, EA Technology
14:45 New Techniques
Steve Anderson and Barry Clegg
15:30 Practical Demonstrations – Part 1
Steve Anderson and Barry Clegg
15:45 Questions & Discussion
17:00 End of Day 1
16:15 End of Course
19:00 Reception for workshop dinner

19:30 Dinner at the

Mollington Banastre Hotel & Spa, Chester Programme may be subject to amendment

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

EA Technology is an IET Endorsed Training Provider of courses, bespoke course, seminars & conferences in Power
Systems Electrical Engineering. This event may be counted towards your CPD providing it is appropriate for the
maintenance or enhancement of a competence relevant to your professional development.
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