DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF FEEDER PILLAR FAULT FUSE DETECTION WITH SMS REPORTING
Keywords:
Feeder pillar, Blown fuse, Fault, GSM, Microprocessor.Abstract
This paper present a system of monitoring the distribution feeder pillar to determine if the
Johnson & Phillips (J&P) fuse is blown or not. Blown fuses are common with distribution
feeder to protect the feeder pillar itself from being faulty. However, this fault should be
promptly reported and localized so that power can be quickly restored to the phase. This
designed of the fuse fault in a feeder is done in such a way that give the location of the
failure after fault has occurred will be easy such that after fault is cleared. Also, the
system is designed in such a way that there will be easy discrimination. After the source,
the bus bar is connected next, then the contactor controlled by a switch. The phase
monitor indicates the sequence of the three lines of the source. If the system detects a
fault, the PIC16F877A microcontroller will activate the SIMCOM_900 GSM module, to
send a pre-programmed message indicating the location of the fault to the utility
provider. All these components are used to achieve the purpose of the feeder pillar
analysis that is to ensure the availability of an appropriate protection.