This document describes an invisible broken-wire detector probe that can detect the location of a break in a wire concealed inside an insulating jacket, such as PVC, without disturbing the wire. The circuit uses a hex inverter integrated circuit to control an oscillator. When the probe encounters the break in the wire, the oscillator detects the loss of alternating current and causes an LED to turn off, indicating the location of the fault. The probe allows easy detection of broken wires in devices with long cables and can help reduce waste by avoiding unnecessary replacement of intact wire sections.
This document describes an invisible broken-wire detector probe that can detect the location of a break in a wire concealed inside an insulating jacket, such as PVC, without disturbing the wire. The circuit uses a hex inverter integrated circuit to control an oscillator. When the probe encounters the break in the wire, the oscillator detects the loss of alternating current and causes an LED to turn off, indicating the location of the fault. The probe allows easy detection of broken wires in devices with long cables and can help reduce waste by avoiding unnecessary replacement of intact wire sections.
This document describes an invisible broken-wire detector probe that can detect the location of a break in a wire concealed inside an insulating jacket, such as PVC, without disturbing the wire. The circuit uses a hex inverter integrated circuit to control an oscillator. When the probe encounters the break in the wire, the oscillator detects the loss of alternating current and causes an LED to turn off, indicating the location of the fault. The probe allows easy detection of broken wires in devices with long cables and can help reduce waste by avoiding unnecessary replacement of intact wire sections.
This document describes an invisible broken-wire detector probe that can detect the location of a break in a wire concealed inside an insulating jacket, such as PVC, without disturbing the wire. The circuit uses a hex inverter integrated circuit to control an oscillator. When the probe encounters the break in the wire, the oscillator detects the loss of alternating current and causes an LED to turn off, indicating the location of the fault. The probe allows easy detection of broken wires in devices with long cables and can help reduce waste by avoiding unnecessary replacement of intact wire sections.
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Invisible Broken-Wire Detector Probe
Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal & Ashish Nanoti
Department of Electronics Engineering, K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar, Mumbai Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Abstract-A device works only when there is proper
connection between the circuit elements. Conducting wires serve in making complete connection. But, when the conductor has fault in it, it isn't capable of conducting due to breakage at some point in its length; the device may no longer operate. Portable loads such as video cameras, halogen flood lights, electrical irons, hand drillers, grinders, and cutters are powered by connecting long 2- or 3-core cables to the mains plug. Due to prolonged usage, the power cord wires are subjected to mechanical strain and stress, which can lead to internal snapping of wires at any point. In such a case most people go for replacing the core/cable, as finding the exact location of a broken wire is difficult. In 3-core cables, it appears almost impossible to detect a broken wire and the point of break without physically disturbing all the three wires that are concealed in a PVC jacket. The circuit presented here can easily and quickly detect a broken/faulty wire and its breakage point in 1-core, 2-core, and 3core cables without physically disturbing wires. Finding out the exact location of breakage can be a problem to the user as the wires are usually insulated by PVC or plastic jacket making the conducting wires inside them invisible.
I. INTRODUCTION Invisible Broken wire detector is an instrument, very useful under these circumstances since it can easily detect the location of internal snapping without contact and physical disturbance. When it senses the breakage in the faulty wire the LED in the instrument turns off, the user knows the location of the fault and the broken section of wire can be replaced easily. II. OBJECTIVE Our basic aim in this project is to locate the exact position of breakage in conducting wires concealed in PVC jacket without physically damaging the jacket thus reducing the waste of time as well as resources. III. BLOCK DIAGRAM AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1) CMOS hex inverter CD4069UB
The CD4069UB consists of six inverter circuits and is manufactured using complementary MOS (CMOS) to achieve wide power supply operating range, low power consumption, high noise immunity, and symmetric controlled rise and fall times.
Invisible Broken-Wire Detector Probe
Block Diagram General Description To detect the exact location of the broken wire inside the PVC jacket we employ our circuit with a hex inverter CMOS which uses its actions to control an oscillator which in return detects the presence of ac current and thus shows us the exact location till where the wire is intact and allowing the passage of current through it. IV. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
2) 1N4148 High speed switching diodes
These have high switching speed up to4ns and have continuous reverse voltage up to 100 volts, repetitive peak reverse voltage; max:100V and repetitive peak forward current; max:450mA. 3) BC547 transistor 4) Resistors 47 ohm 1M ohm 560 ohm 220 ohm 5)1.5 x 2 AG13 or LR44 type button cells 6) LEDs 7) Bread board 8) 2200P capacitor 9) Connecting wires and probe 10)Switch VI. FEATURES 1) Wide supply voltage range: 3V to 15V, 2) High noise immunity, 3) Operating temperature range :-55 C to +125 C, 4) Portable,
V. COMPONENTS REQUIRED AND
THEIR DESCRIPTION
5) No physical disturbance,
6) Contactless detection, 7) Low power requirements, 8)Accurate, 9)Easy to use , 10)Useful and handy instrument.
The circuit is made cheap and best. It
would not only be able in reducing wastage of time but resources too. Thus using just a hex inverter and few resistors we are able to construct a device which can easily detect a faulty broken wire and thus save the extra cost of a user which is incurred on replacing it which is otherwise too difficult.
VII. RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS
IX. FUTURE SCOPE
Thus the circuit was made successfully
which can easily detect broken point in the wire inside PVC jacket without physically disturbing it. The whole circuit can be accommodated in a small PVC pipe and used as a handy broken-wire detector. This will make the circuit more compact and east to handle. The handy broken-wire is portable and less prone to damage.
We can use an inverter in between the led
and the oscillator which will then turn on the LED only when the broken point is detected and keeping it off when wire is not broken. By making this change we can make our detector more user-friendly which now directly shows the broken point.
