User manual VAISALA FALLS 5.0 DATASHEET

[. . . ] www. vaisala. com Vaisala FALLS® 5. 0 Fault Analysis and Lightning Location System Features/Benefits Prioritize your analyses on the fly using the FALLS® 5. 0 Analysis queue. The ability to explore an analysis while others run in the background will improve your productivity. Easy-to-use interface GIS (geographic information systems) functionality Automatically generated maps save time Automated processing of prioritized and queued analyses Execute other tasks while the analyses run in the background Easy interpretation of lightning data, using color, time, polarity and amplitude codes Filter out unwanted lightning data The user can automate analyses by setting the start and end dates, and inserting other criteria Vaisala FALLS® 5. 0 is an innovative software used by electricity utilities to query previously recorded lightning information in a GIS (geographic information systems) environment. [. . . ] National Lightning Detection Network ® and the Canadian Lightning Detection Network, which together create the most comprehensive historic lightning database in the world Subscription to Vaisala FALLS Lightning Data for your service territory ® International customers and private Vaisala lightning detection network owners can access data from any Vaisala central processor or archive processor FALLS 5. 0 and FALLS ® Server Software support and upgrades ® Technical data Regional analysis A Regional Analysis generates regional and local lightning strike occurrences and/or densities for user-specified time periods. It is used to identify hot spots for lightning activity, compare variations in lightning occurrence, amplitude, and polarity across days, weeks, months, or years and statistically verify the expected amounts of lightning activity in your service territory. FALLS® 5. 0 allows the user to display and discriminate lightning discharges by their time of occurrence. The map displayed here for December 3rd and 4th, 2008 shows a line of thunderstorms in the U. S. An example of a FALLS® 5. 0 Exposure Analysis for a transmission circuit in eastern Ohio. This information can help an electric utility to prioritize protection or maintenance. Exposure analysis An Exposure Analysis offers point-by-point and/or gridded analysis resolving the amount and type of lightning activity within user-defined asset buffer regions. It plots time trends of lightning over your service territory and/ or assets, ranks assets by the amount and intensity of lightning exposure and discriminates by polarity and amplitude around user-defined asset buffers. Reliability analysis A Reliability Analysis maps event-specific lightning analysis in near real-time. It locates poorly performing line segments or system weaknesses, validates your lightning protection design and correlates your line faults to lightning activity or a lack of lightning activity. Computer requirements Processor Minimum: Operating System: RAM: Hard Disk: 1. 6 GHz Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, Intel Core Duo, or AMD Athlon equivalent Windows XP SP2 Recommended - 2 GB or higher, Minimum - 1 GB 850 MB for install, up to 50 MB of disk space may be needed in the Windows System directory (typically C:\\Windows\System32), 3 GB of available space to be allocated for swap, temporary files, and saved analyses 24-bit capable graphics accelerator card 1280 x 1024, 32-bit color, 1024 x 768, 32-bit color Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. 0 or 7. 0 This FALLS 5. 0 Reliability Analysis reveals four cloud-toground lightning discharges which correlated to a suspected fault. The blue ellipse represents the stroke that best matches the fault recorder timestamp and the red ellipse shows the highest peak current event. Field crews could be dispatched to the location to restore service. ® Display Card Screen Resolution Recommended Minimum Browser Recommended Other Recommended Minimum DVD-ROM drive Vaisala Inc. Medina Road, Tucson, AZ 85756, USA, Tel: +1 520 806 7300, Fax: +1 520 741 2848 For more information, visit www. vaisala. com or contact us at sales@vaisala. com Ref. [. . . ] All specifications -- technical included -- are subject to change without notice. [. . . ]