11-year operating record - rural line sectionalizing by repeater fuses

Abstract

Repeater fuses have been used on rural lines of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company for the last 15 years. During this period our methods of application have been improved to the point that the results obtained make us feel that this method of automatic sectionalizing of rural lines is quite satisfactory. Three-shot repeater fuses now are standard for sectionalizing rural lines for the entire company. This paper is intended to give a comprehensive picture of the performance of repeater fuses as we have found it, so that other engineers may have the same information when studying alternative plans for sectionalizing on their own system.