Sidekick Plus
Sidekick Plus 5001 is an advanced cable maintenance test set designed to provide cable test, diagnostics and fault locating capabilities for telecom and low voltage power cables, all in one instrument. Manufactured by Tempo Communications U.S.A (Previous by Greenlee)
The Sidekick Plus TDR performs the following tests which should routinely be performed by signaling and telecom departments to evaluate ability of cable pairs to transmit & receive signals or transfer electrical energy. Key test features of the Sidekick 1155-5001 for Cable testing include:
- Cable Fault location: Advanced Dual Trace Pulse TDR (Zero Dead Zone) (Upto 10kms)
- Resistive Fault Locator (Upto 60kms detects up to 20M)
- Multimeter (AC&DC Volts) & Loop Current
- Ground resistance tester
- Resistance & Leakage/Insulation Resistance (1G)
- Capacitance /Cable length (Open meter)
- Cable Stress & Longitudinal Balance Test
- Loop current
- Circuit loss
- Tracing Tone generator & reference tone
The instrument is used by Telecom departments including by Broadband ISP Service providers & PSTN Telephone networks with twisted pair or coax Copper from the exchange to cabinet, pillar or pole and into the customer premise or business including Auto test report of Pass/Fail and DSLAM Test reports and for Railway signalling and telecom departments for finding faults on a variety of cables, IT departments of Power Discoms and large campus installations managing cable networks.
Ground Resistance Test
Ground resistance testing is useful when evaluating whether a station, or premise ground is sufficient.
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Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR)
A pulse TDR has the capability of checking the quality of cables from the end of the test leads with zero dead-zone.
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Resistive Fault Locator (RFL)
Resistive Fault Location is used to locate short circuits to other cables or ground.
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Leakage / Resistance
Leakage / Resistance is used to detect intermittent resistance faults that normal VOM tests cannot detect.
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