Alstom Reason RPV311, Technical Manual

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Chapter 12
– RPV Tools
RPV311
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2.4.3 THE TRAVELING WAVE FAULT LOCATION
The graphical interface must be open, double click the Fault Locator icon on the desktop.
The Fault Locator interface is shown in Figure 79 .
Figure 79: Fault Locator Interface
A Selection of the power line to be checked. The lines available are these with XML files already configured
by the user. To appear in the list, the files must be stored the directory C:\RPV\faultlocator\conf.
B Terminal identification of each end of the line and the list of the traveling wave records of each terminal.
Each record on this list is named with a time stamp. User must select one time stamp of each terminal that
matches the same event. When selecting the record one terminal, it automatically selects a record with the
same timestamp at the other terminal.
The TW Fault Locator Software considers the time zone information in the COMTRADE file’s name, in order
to set the register of both sides of the transmission line at UTC Time for calculations. Therefore, lines that go
beyond two diferent time zones will not canse the algorithm to miscalculate the fault location.
C Selector of sensitivity for the fault location.
D Buttons for fault location, where: