HIGH VOLTAGE ONLINE (LIVE WIRE) TESTING SOLUTION

  
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High Voltage Online (Live Wire) Testing Solution provides the ratio error of the CT/PT Kit, without going for a shut down of the industry. HV Live wire screening method is easy and time-efficient. Besides the waveform & harmonics analysis, CT saturation error or any other error can be identified easily.

CHALLENGES WITH EXISTING TESTING SYSTEM

Industries are reluctant & resistive to outages/shutdowns, as it affects their operations for the duration of the test.

In many cases HV Consumers’ CTPT is tested only once in their lifetime, at the time of installation, when its guaranteed to be healthy. Over the period of time either tampering/ageing may cause CTs to deteriorate which affects the revenue of Periodic annual testing of CT’s tend to be compromised due to the inconveniences that it involves.

Distribution Utility needs to put in a lot of background work- documentation, follow-ups & arrangements for such 11kV/33kV CTPT Testing, because the industry needs to give its concurrence for a shutdown.

Offline/with-outage CT/PT Testing may take 2 to 5 hours or more in certain cases, which results in loss of  Revenue & man-hours of Distribution Utility as well as Industries.

 

Live wire testing addresses all the above challenges of the existing system.

HV Consumers CT/PT Testing is carried out Online/Live Wire without shutdown of the industry. It will certify healthiness and find out irregularities if any at the consumer end.

HOW IT WORKS HOW IT WORKS

High Voltage Live Wire Testing - Working
 

    FEATURES

  • SANDS Live Wire Test kit can conduct testing up to 40KV consumers.
  • Smart Wireless Display to operate equipment and perform the test safely.
  • We provide protection/safety gears such as Boots (22kV isolation), HV Testing Suit, Gloves (33kV isolation) along with the product.
  • Insulation rating of Hot Stick is 100kV/foot.

    HV & IR STANDARDS

  • Boot: ASTM F116
  • Suit: NFPA 70E
  • Glove: EN 60903 – IEC 60903:2014
  • Hot Stick: ASTM F1826-00
  • TPRS Accuracy: IEC 60687, IS 12346, IS 14697
 

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FAQ

  • What is CT/PT testing?

All high value consumers are provided utility supply at high voltage, typically 11kV, 33kV, 66kV or sometimes even higher. The energy consumption of these consumers are measured at reduced voltages and reduced currents using CT/PT kit or reduction instrument transformers. As these consumers account for substantial portion of the utility’s revenue, any error in the metering system, which includes meters and the CT/PT kit, will have a great impact in its revenue. Thus, as per various guidelines and regulatory orders, the utilities are required to test the metering system periodically; in India, the periodicity being is one year.

As the CT/PT kits are connected to high voltages, the testing cannot be done by the conventional methods of directly connecting a test equipment. In general, the utility takes a shutdown of the line, removes the CT/PT kit from the structure and uses various methods such as primary injection kit or secondary injection kit to measure the accuracy of the instrument transformers. The meters are tested for accuracy using portable reference standards. On completion of the testing, if the errors are within the permissible limits, the CT/PT kit is installed and line energized.

As evident, this process is cumbersome, and requires a shutdown of the industry / commercial premises, resulting in loss of revenue for the utility for the duration of the testing. Besides, the industries are not willing to take the shutdown as per schedule, as their production gets affected.

  • Why is the high voltage on-line (live wire) testing important?

The off-line method of testing CT/PT kits requires shutdown and removal fo the kit for testing using either primary or secondary injection method. As these kits are tested periodically, perhaps once every year, it has been established that percentage of CT/PT kits going beyond permissible errors is as low as 3%. Therefore, the question is – can we screen the CT/PT kits while in the high-voltage circuit and check their errors, and if the errors are high, then opt for a complete testing as mandated in the off-line method?

The high voltage testing of CT/PT kit involves directly measuring the voltage and currents at the high voltage lines (primary side) and simultaneously measure the voltages and currents on the low voltage line (secondary side) to get the ratio of both PT and CT. Also, measurement of harmonics at both the primary and secondary give an indication about the saturation levels of the CT; most often encountered error.

  • Can high voltage testing be used for power transformer efficiency testing?

Yes. The high voltage testing can be effectively used for measuring the primary and secondary parameters simultaneously, and thereby calculate the efficiency under actual load conditions while in circuit.

In many countries, including India, the power transformers of capacities from 100 kVA to 500 kVA are rewound after a defect, and these are tested for basic parameters in the factory, which may not truly reflect its efficiency under energized conditions. Thus high voltage testing helps the utilities to quickly check the health of the power transformers very quickly.