Patent ID: 6304089
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
Termination apparatus comprising first and second termination devices for use with a ground-check monitor and a Y-configured trailing cable whereby said ground-check monitor is connected to a ground-check conductor and ground conductor(s) at a power source and said Y-configured trailing cable provides power to two loads, said trailing cable being connected at one end thereof to said power source and following a first length thereof being split into two arms each of which connects to one of said two loads, and whereby said ground-check monitor is configured for normal use with an unsplit trailing cable providing power to a single load and under such normal use said ground check monitor detects a predetermined electrical characteristic associated with a single termination device across a ground-check conductor and ground conductor(s) at said single load, said first and second termination devices having associated therewith first and second electrical characteristics, respectively, which differ from said predetermined electrical characteristic, said first and second termination devices being configured for connection in parallel between a ground-check conductor and ground conductor(s) of said arms of said Y-configured trailing cable whereby said first and second termination devices, when in said parallel connection, are detected by said ground-check monitor to have a combined electrical characteristic which matches said predetermined electrical characteristic, whereby a discontinuity in the ground-check conductor of any of said first length and arms of said trailing cable is determined by said ground-check monitor when said monitor does not detect said predetermined electrical characteristic between said ground-check and ground conductors.