Abstract:
In order to determine the direction of a fault in a power network from the measuring point, each phase of the line is provided with a detector part with a band exclusion filter for removing the part of a signal which has the operating frequency of the network, which signal is proportional to the current at the measuring point, and another band exclusion filter for removing the part of another signal which has the operating frequency of the network, which is proportional to the voltage at the measuring point. A directional detector is fed with the two filtered signals which contain substantially only transients. The output of the directional detector is connected to a tripping relay and a blocking relay.