GE RPV311, Technical Manual

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Chapter 12
– RPV Tools
RPV311
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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:
The < L
OCATE
> button allows user to run the fault location algorithm;
The < V
IEWER
> button allows user to open the manual graphical tool to locate the
time of the wave fronts in each terminal;
The
< L
OCATE BY CHART
> button allows user to use the wave front times located in the
graphical tool, to run the algorithm of fault location;
The
< KML > button allows user to create a KML file, only if the tower’s geographic
coordinates have been provided.