What Your Smartphone Does for You, This Device Can Do for Your Grid

Most of the time, I take my smartphone for granted.

But occasionally I’m struck by just how much easier—and more streamlined—my life is because of this all-in-one device.

Telephone, calculator, day planner, alarm clock, PC, camera—it’s all right there.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could offer your grid something similar?

As you use more features, you’ll notice the benefits stacking up and you’ll unlock more potential in your grid.

The Grid Gift That Keeps on Giving

With S&C’s IntelliRupter® PulseCloser® Fault Interrupter, you can bring all-in-one technology and convenience to your feeders.

Much like your smartphone, IntelliRupter® fault interrupter is packed with features, advantages, and applications—and much like how you use your phone, you can pick and choose which features you want to use.

As you use more features, you’ll notice the benefits stacking up and you’ll unlock more potential in your grid.

Segmentation Strengths St​ack Up

One key benefit IntelliRupter fault interrupter offers is segmentation—specifically, a simpler, more streamlined segmentation than you can achieve with conventional reclosers.

IntelliRupter fault interrupter’s highly accurate sensing capabilities result in skinny TCC curves that empower you to achieve coordination along your entire feeder. This coordination is simplified because IntelliRupter fault interrupter:

• Doesn’t require custom logic or programming
• Eliminates the need for communication
• Coordinates easily with existing grid assets and SCADA systems

If you want to go even further to minimize outage impacts and achieve reliability and/or segmentation goals, IntelliRupter fault interrupter can help you there, too.

The device’s proprietary PulseFinding™ Fault Location Technique can eliminate the need for coordination, or even communications, so you can put an unlimited number of devices on your line to achieve unlimited segmentation and rapid automatic restoration.

Rerouting Rewards Rack Up

The IntelliRupter fault interrupter enables automatic loop restoration, as it:

• Simultaneously monitors power flow from both directions
• Comes preprogrammed with the protection required for automatic loop restoration

So, you can:

1. Add an IntelliRupter fault interrupter as the normally open tie point device to create a loop circuit
   or
2. Add the device to an existing loop circuit as-is, with no communications required—creating a self-healing grid without the expense of a comms system (though, of course, IntelliRupter fault interrupter is fully capable of working with existing comms or SCADA systems)

The result: minimized outage scope and improved reliability metrics.

The benefits of IntelliRupter fault interrupter stack, as, in contrast to conventional reclosers, the device:

• Performs FLISR operations significantly faster, with restoration times reduced to just minutes—or even seconds, by working in tandem with S&C’s IntelliTeam® SG Automatic Restoration System
• Restores power without voltage sags, blinks, or outages on adjacent feeders during fault testing, thanks to the device’s unique PulseClosing® Technology

Protection Payoffs Pile Up

IntelliRupter fault interrupter's significant benefits also inlude universal circuit protection, which adds protection to:

• Overhead feeders
• Underground feeders
• Hybrid overhead-underground systems

This is thanks to the device’s PulseClosing technology, which tests for faults using 95% less energy than conventional reclosers. This reduced energy applies minimal impact on cables. (Watch the stark difference here; it’s pretty cool.)

With this advantage, you can apply a single overcurrent protection scheme to any system while equally protecting both overhead and underground cables.

Discover Deeper Dividends

Just like your phone serves many functions, IntelliRupter fault interrupter offers even more benefits than what I’ve listed above. (It works with existing fiber-optic networks. It features intelligent fuse saving that uses fault duty to determine whether a fuse can be saved.)

It’s time to give your grid the smartphone treatment.

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