STX40 Cable Fault Locator

It is ideally suited for all essential fault locating tasks, such as analysing, prelocating and pinpointing of faults on low voltage and medium voltage XLPE or EPR insulated cables. With its 40 kV DC source and a potent high frequency burner it is also highly effective on PILC cables.

7 built-in fault locating methods

The STX40 redefines the state-of-the-art: as a complete package it comes with all necessary fault locating components fully integrated in a single robust housing. The STX is the only system in its class with 7 fault locating methods built-in:

• Insulation resistance testing
• Time Domain Reflectometry (Radar)
• HV DC proof testing (DC hipot)
• Burning
• TDR-based prelocation and additionally transient prelocation methods
• Surging/Thumping in multiple voltage stages
• Sheath testing and Sheath fault pinpointing

Made for demanding outdoor use

Fault location systems have to meet steep requirements to be considered truly portable and outdoor-ready for use in the field. Units must be lightweight, rugged, very mobile in adverse terrain and as compact in size as possible. Units must also be operable in rain as well as in very bright daylight conditions with intense sunshine. With its IP43 rating, low weight and pneumatic tyres, the STX40 is the only fault locating unit in its class with this high degree of outdoor-readiness.

The STX40 also has a very wide operating temperature range. No matter whether you are fault locating somewhere in the desert in +55°C or somewhere near the polar circle in -20°C, no matter whether you are up in the mountains at high altitudes where the air is thinner or somewhere in the jungle in humid or tropical conditions – the STX40 is built for all climates.