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WireCheck

WireCheck

Wire Fault Diagnosis Tool

WireCheck is an extremely sensitive Time Domain Reflectometer designed specifically for detecting chafing and other soft faults in cables.

More about WireCheck

With the ability to detect chafes at sub-inch accuracy to greater than 200ft*, WireCheck Time Domain Reflectometer simplifies difficult troubleshooting tasks on aircraft and other systems with limited cable access and/or where faults are intermittent. Above all, WireCheck comes with common cable attachments. Included MATLAB calibration functions dramatically increase sensitivity and dynamic range during post-processing.

Simply connect the instrument leads to the wire-under-test and ground, and start a scan. Likewise, WireCheck injects low-level 600mV pulses with extremely fast 50psec rise/fall times into the cable at a rate of ten million per second. An 18GHz track-and-hold plus 200MHz 12-bit ADC act as a sampling scope to generate a trace of the reflections. In conclusion, view scans in real-time.

Features & Benefits

  • Chafe Location with Inch Accuracy for 200ft Long Coxial Cable
  • Low Pulses Safe for Connected Instruments and in Presence of Fuel Vapors
  • Greater Sensivity to Cable Impedance Variation than Any…
  • 18GHz Track-and-Hold
  • >90dB of Dynamic Range
  • One-sided Access
General:
Cable Types Coxial, Twisted Pair
Chafe Detection, Coax Up to 200 ft.
Chafe Detection, Twisted Pair Up to 20 ft.
Electrical:
Input Voltage 100 to 240 VAC
Input Frequency Input Frequency
Mechanical:
Dimensions 7.1″ x 10.1″ x 8.4″
Weight 11.5 lbs
Pulser:
Pulse Amplitude 600mV
Pulse Width 3nsec
Pulse Repetition Frequency 20MHz
Pulse Rise/Fall Time 50psec
Output Impedance 50Ω
Receiver:
ADC Clock Rate 10MHz
Sampling Rate/Period (Effect) 50GHz/20psec
Full Trace Width >500nsec (>27K pts)
ADC Resolution 12 bits
T&H Analog Bandwidth 18GHz
Averaging, Max 128,000x
Scan Time (Max Averaging) 3mins

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