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- Page 1 Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers TFT100 2450 Turquoise Circle Newbury Park, CA 91320 Toll Free: 800-749-5783...
- Page 2 Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers User Manual Introduction Fault Trapper™ is a new class of tester intended to locate the distance to a circuit anomaly that is either intermittently causing a change in the circuit’s characteristics or blowing the circuit breaker. Fault Trapper™...
- Page 3 Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers and 40amp branch circuits or less. Turn off circuit breaker prior to attaching Fault Trapper™ and inline adapter to circuit to be • monitored. Do not use around explosive or flammable gas. •...
- Page 4 Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers Fault Trapper™ Front Panel and Connections: Connectors: Power Source - Usually attached to circuit breaker terminal or terminals using plug in terminal blocks supplied. Screws on terminal block should be tightened to 7in-lbs. Connectors (continued): Load - Wire or wires removed from circuit breaker attach here Supplied Leader cable connects 40amp adapter to Fault Trapper™.
- Page 5 Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers Display (4.) - Backlit LCD display shows distance to fault, time to fault, fault type and battery status. Buttons: Display - Used to power unit on briefly to view faults when not powered by AC and to toggle between a breaker trip fault and a non-breaker trip fault, if there is one.
- Page 6 Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers removed from in step 1. To connect to 220Vac Standard Breaker (up to 40amps): All connections to the Fault Trapper 40 Amp adapter are madding using plug in terminal blocks, torque screws to 7in-lbs: 1) Remove the two hot wires from the breakers and attach to the load side of the Fault Trapper 40Amp Adapter - terminal L1 black wire, terminal L2 red wire.
- Page 7 Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers connection the Display button can be used to power the unit on using battery power to show the results from a previous test. Starting a Test – While powered by the AC power connection press the Test button. The Fault Trapper will not run a test under battery power.
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Page 8: Specifications
Fault Trapper™ Transient Fault Location for Branch Circuit Breakers Warning! - Remove any cables attached to the Fault Trapper™ before opening battery compartment! Changing Battery 1) Remove screw on rear of unit near the middle with a #1 Philips head screwdriver. 2) Remove battery and disconnect from battery snaps.