Users Guide
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INTRODUCTION
The Raptor marks the difference with respect to any primary injection testing equipment
that currently exists. Its innovative design and cutting-edge technology allow substation
commissioning and maintenance tasks to be carried out more efficiently, given that the
concept of manageability is taken to extremes that were previously never possible to
reach.
With the Raptor, SMC opens the door to a new generation of testing equipment based
on the formula of innovation, designed with and for the user and endorsed by more than
25 years of experience developing practical, affordable and long-lasting solutions for its
customers around the world.
As high-current injection equipment, the Raptor’s design fulfils three fundamental
objectives: 1) being able to bring equipment as close as possible to the device under test,
2) controlling current automatically and 3) only requiring one person.
The basic system (C-05) or ‘master unit with console’ is extraordinarily compact and
manageable equipment, with a touch-screen console that allows making precise
electrical measurements and conducting multiple types of testing, including high-current
testing, for which it uses an elegant implementation of the secondary pass-through
technique. A single conductor passes through the equipment from one side to the other
in order to transmit the current to the object being tested, connected at its two ends. This
saves preparation time and eliminates power losses. The wave shape, of variable
frequency, is generated digitally and is extracted through a 3-kVA power amplifier with
extreme precision and control, insensitive to the variations that might occur in the load
and even in the power supply voltage.
The Raptor slave units, externally identical to the master unit, allow increasing the
injection power in 5-kVA steps just be aligning them with the master and passing the
injection conductor through the entire assembly. A sophisticated power management
system, supported by a robust infrared communications channel, allows managing up to
five Raptor units as if they were a single unit and without having to connect them to each
other, thereby reaching an injection power of over 18 kVA and a current of up to 15,000
amperes. In addition to all this configuration flexibility, there is the possibility of increasing
the applied voltage simply by looping the conductor around the equipment several times.
The Raptor is managed using a small touch screen, which attaches magnetically to steel
surfaces for greater convenience. Updateable by a direct connection to Internet, this
powerful, multilingual controller also stores testing templates pre-configured at the
factory, in addition to those defined by the user, as well as the testing results. Its software
includes an assistant to determine the Raptor configuration and the necessary cable
characteristics for conducting a specific test, even before leaving the office.
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