Maintenance check of oil, vacuum, sulfur-hexafluoride (SF6) and air-blast circuit breakers for all voltage classes from 10kV to 1,050kV checkout of speed and travel parameters of oil, vacuum, SF6 and air-blast circuit breakers with up to 20 breaks per pole; checkout of time characteristics of high-voltage disconnecting, isolating and short-circuiting switches; measuring of electromagnet currents and voltages and solenoid heavy currents with the help of clamp meters; built-in remote control for setting of ordinary operations and compound cycles for circuit breakers with the current of up to 35A for DC/AC drives; large-scale software. Diagnostics of domestic and foreign circuit breakers PKV/U3.0 is complete with attachment devices for the installation of measuring transducers on all types of Russian- and foreign-manufactured high-voltage circuit breakers (ABB, AREVA, ALSTOM, SIEMENS, etc.). If attachment of linear movement transducer is not envisaged for high-voltage equipment, you can use angular transducer instead. The instrument will automatically recalculate angular movement transducer readings to the travel of contacts. A set for foreign-manufactured high-voltage circuit breakers (ABB, AREVA, ALSTOM, SIEMENS, etc.) is supplied on order. Wide ranges of time intervals, speed and travel measurement covering the needs for monitoring of existing circuit breakers Wide ranges of measurement by time (up to 8.1 sec), speed (up to 20 m/sec) and travel (up to 900 mm), covering the needs for monitoring of all existing high-voltage circuit breakers. For instance, the smaller time range of similar instruments does not allow for monitoring the operation of circuit breakers in compound cycles. There are a number of nuances at measurement performance. For example, while registering of time characteristics of any high-voltage circuit breaker is quite a simple process, receiving of travel and speed characteristics can be performed only with the use of special linear or angular movement transducers. Thus, if the advertisement of the instrument indicates that it can perform monitoring, for instance, of vacuum or oil circuit breakers but no transducer is included in the instrument kit, it means that monitoring of time characteristics only is envisaged. PKV/U3.0 is supplied with incremental (discrete) transducers for measurement of speed characteristics and travel parameters which do not require adjustment or correction of conversion factors; these transducers provide accurate results and are convenient in service. Instruments with wire rope transducers, for instance, have a limited upper value for speed. Pull-back spring of these transducers does not have enough time to reel the wire rope onto the drum in case of rapid change of speed and measurement results become less accurate. It is not recommended to use laser movement transducers as there is a risk of eye damaging by the laser beam in case of mishandling. Checkout of travel and speed parameters by three phases simultaneously In order to get complete and objective information on the state of a high-voltage circuit breaker, travel and speed parameters should be taken by each of its poles. While performing measurement with one transducer, you have to measure travel parameters of each pole by switching from one pole to another performing three switching Close/Open operations. However, applying of three transducers simultaneously, which can be done with PKV/U3.0, will allow performing measurement process much quicker as only 1 switching Close/Open operation will be needed. Standard complete set of PKV/U3.0 includes linear DP12 (1pcs.) and angular DP21 (1pcs.) movement transducers. In order to check parameters by three phases simultaneously one more group of DP12 (2 pcs.) and/or DP21 (2 pcs.) as well as the required tool kit with all necessary accessories is supplied on order. Automatic calculation of technical characteristics of high-voltage circuit breakers PKV/U3.0 is a measuring “brain” which performs all necessary calculations. In order to view the results of diagnostics you need to connect the instrument to a portable personal computer (PC) with special software allowing you to view and analyze the obtained results. The expanded set of time, travel and speed characteristics both for drive shaft and contacts as well as of voltages and currents of electromagnets and solenoid of the drive: time diversity, bounce durability, delay, rebound and transfer, medium velocities at various sections of travel, etc. Apart from numerical data this instrument provides graphical results which allow detecting of incipient defects Along with the tables of digital values of parameters more detailed information on circuit breaker condition can be obtained from the following registered graphs of processes: relation between speed and time, speed and travel; relation between electromagnet currents and voltages, and time and travel; diagrams of contact opening-closing. Automatic graphical overlay of circuit breaker phase cross-arms movement allows for accurate detection of such major defects as pole mechanism end play. It is particularly important for circuit breakers having one drive for three phases. Such defect cannot be detected using numeric data only. The state of the guide system also cannot be evaluated without viewing the graphs of moving parts movement process. It is also not possible to identify the node contributing to switch off delay using numeric data only. In this case the graph of speed against time of the process also provides comprehensive information as it is possible to separate the time of drive operation and operation time of mechanisms of the circuit breaker itself.

Monitoring of air-blast circuit breakers with the help of unique cable for 10 variable-resistance transducers One of the main items subject to diagnostics at air-blast circuit breakers’ (VO-750, VO-1150, VNV-1150, VNV-500-40, VNV-500-65, etc.) operation monitoring is the measurement of nozzle actuator movement parameters (nozzle travel, movement start and end time, etc.). For the purpose of monitoring of these parameters a rheostat the moving part of which is rigidly attached to the moving part of the drive is screwed into a special drive bore. When drive movement changes, resistance of the rheostat changes as well and this change is recorded by PKV/U3.0. The cable for 10 variable-resistance circuit breakers is supplied in the standard complete set of the instrument. Monitoring of high-voltage circuit breakers in simple and compound cycles PKV/U3.0 is equipped with a power switch for control of switching device drive with solenoid current of up to 35А (direct and alternating) which allows performing both simple switching close or switching open operations and compound cycles "Open-Close", "Close-Open", "Open-Close-Open". PKV/U3 is represented in two modifications One of the main characteristics of PKV/U3 is that it is produced in two modifications which differ in the number of channels of movement transducers (1 or 3) and number of channels of variable-resistance transducers monitoring (2 or 12): PKV/U3.1 and PKV/U3.0, correspondingly.