Products

Fault Locating

SEL fault-locating technologies quickly and accurately locate transmission and distribution faults, enabling faster crew dispatch and service restoration. Most SEL relays offer impedance-based fault locating, and a selection of SEL devices also offer extremely precise traveling-wave-based fault locating.

Traveling-Wave-Based Fault Locating

SEL traveling-wave fault locators use ultra-high-resolution monitoring to detect traveling waves from temporary faults, permanent faults, and fault precursors. These devices also include impedance-based methods for locating faults when traveling waves are weak or distorted.

Configuration and Visualization Software