Power disruption service outages

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2 months 4 days ago #7469 by mw0uzo
Hey all
We're having some power disruption issues due to an intermittent short. I'm in the process of trying to determine where exactly it is.
There may be some further service disruption, but rest assured radmon.org has not disappeared!
Dan mw0uzo
 
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2 months 1 day ago #7471 by Rayvenhaus
Thanks for the info mate, it's appreciated
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2 weeks 5 hours ago #7492 by mw0uzo
Had another outage, still not quite got to the bottom of it. I have eliminated quite a few possibilities - I think there is water getting into a crack in an external feed cable which will need replacement. Need to 100% identify as the culprit before replacing it.

I could run some cable insulation tests on it that would show its the bad cable... wonder if anyone knows if there is a low cost meter that might detect this?

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2 weeks 4 hours ago #7493 by Simomax
Get your suspected cable, disconnect both ends, connect up 29kV flyback transformer, stand back and turn on. Locate where the ground is fizzing and smoking! 

Thanks for the heads up.

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22 hours 55 minutes ago - 22 hours 55 minutes ago #7503 by Bert490
An insulation tester or  Megohmmeter such as * this * one can verify the insulation on the cable.  Open both ends; a lower resistance means the cable has a leak.
 
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