CN104238409B - A kind of insulator string detection device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a kind of insulator string detection devices, including encircling the cage of insulator chain, the walking mechanism being fixed on cage, testing agency and control mechanism；The cage includes：The lower cage that upper cage, side and upper cage are hinged, the lower cage other side are clamped by lock and upper cage；The walking mechanism includes：The movable motor being fixed on cage, the walking plectrum being fixed on movable motor output shaft and the battery powered for movable motor, the present invention drives detector to walk on insulator chain using mechanical mechanism, and detector is driven to be detected, it changes and the sub- tester of charged insulating was connected to insulating bar one end by electrician on tower in the past, electrician holds the other end and charges the method detected piecewise to anchor support porcelain insulator；Achieve the purpose that time saving, laborsaving, safe.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to one kind to be used for high-voltage power line tension tower transverse direction porcelain insulator measuring device with electricity.
Background technique
Insulator is for the insulator arrangement between high pressure overhead power line steel tower and conducting wire, to prevent insulator from going out to ask
Initiation accident is inscribed, needs often to detect it.When strain tower of transmission line porcelain insulator live detection, if electrician uses on tower
Operating stick detects porcelain insulator, and it is high to power on the Worker's Stadium force request to tower；Because insulating bar needs electrician on tower horizontal
Holding detects porcelain insulator piecewise, and 500KV line tension tower porcelain insulator live detection is long using insulating bar
5.5 meters to 7.5 meters, level holds so long insulating bar and is detected piecewise to porcelain insulator, and electrician expends a large amount of on tower
Physical strength.Currently, transmission line insulator level improves, some 500KV strain tower of transmission line porcelain as air pollution degree is serious
Insulator the piece number increases to 42 by 32, and about 8 meters of length causes to detect extremely difficult, staff's labour using operating stick
Intensity is big, high altitude operation risk is very big.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a kind of easy to operate, easy to use, time saving and energy saving electrification is exhausted
Edge detection device.
To solve the above problems, the technical solution adopted by the present invention is that：A kind of insulator string detection device, including encircle
The cage of insulator string, the walking mechanism being fixed on cage, testing agency and control mechanism；The cage includes：On
The lower cage that cage, side and upper cage are hinged, the lower cage other side are clamped by lock and upper cage；The vehicle with walking machine
Structure includes：The movable motor that is fixed on cage, the walking plectrum being fixed on movable motor output shaft and
For the battery of movable motor power supply；The testing agency includes：It is fixed at the detection motor of cage side, fixation is set
The detector swung with swing arm and insulated probe set the swing arm on detection motor output shaft, be fixed at swing arm free end
Stick, insulated probe stick both ends are respectively arranged with probe, and two probes are connect with detector test side；The control machine
Structure includes：Controller, position-sensing switch, return switch, the controller is single-chip microcontroller, and the controller output end is connected with relay
Device, warning device, the controller input terminal are connected with position-sensing switch and return switch；The walking mechanism, testing agency are solid
Fixed to be arranged on upper cage, the control mechanism and battery are arranged on lower cage by equipment box, the detector power supply
It is connect by conducting wire with battery；The detector data output end is connect with controller input terminal, the movable motor and inspection
Measured motor passes through power lead respectively and connect with relay；The return switch is arranged before upper cage front end, the upper cage
End is fitted with push plate, and the push plate is provided with mandril, and the mandril and return switch are clamped, and the return switch is defeated with controller
Enter end connection；
The upper cage both ends are provided with more than one guide pin.
Furtherly, there are two opposite movable motor, two movable motor output shafts for the walking mechanism setting
It is respectively arranged with walking plectrum.
Furtherly, the walking plectrum is three tooth plectrums.
Generated beneficial effect is by adopting the above technical scheme：The present invention drives detector exhausted using mechanical mechanism
It walks on edge substring, and detector is driven to be detected, detected automatically piecewise one by one, the cage body that hollow out is encircled is light to be suitble to
High-altitude carries, operates, and light detection device, facilitates the working method of operation in the high pylon of tens of rice, high degree
The work difficulty for alleviating isolator detecting avoids original long pole and detects manually, greatly reduces labour slightly and grasps
Make risk, the detection frequency of insulator chain is improved convenient for the mode of detection, improves the reliability of insulator chain, is reduced defeated
The security risk of power transformation changes and the sub- tester of charged insulating was fixed on insulating bar, hand by operator on tower in the past
Hold detection anchor support porcelain insulator；Not only only reach time saving, laborsaving, safe purpose, the configuration of the present invention is simple, side easy to operate
Just, and operator is safer, working efficiency multiplication.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is schematic structural view of the invention；
Fig. 2 is deployed configuration schematic diagram of the present invention；
Fig. 3 is present device box structure schematic diagram；
Fig. 4 is present invention walking plectrum structure schematic diagram；
Fig. 5 is Returning switch progressive position structural schematic diagram of the present invention；
Fig. 6 is Returning switch retracted position structural schematic diagram of the present invention；
Wherein：Cage, 2 lower cages, 3 locks, 4 movable motors, 5 walking plectrums, 6 batteries, 7 detection motors, 8 pendulum on 1
Arm, 9 detectors, 10 insulated probe sticks, 11 probes, 12 mandrils, 13 position-sensing switches, 14 returns switch, 15 push plates, 16 alarm dresses
It sets, 17 equipment boxs, 18 guide pins, 19 conducting wires, 20 hinges.
Specific embodiment
Invention is described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawing：As shown in Fig. 1,2,3,4,5,6, a kind of insulator string detection
Device, including encircling the cage of insulator string, the walking mechanism being fixed on cage, testing agency and control mechanism；Institute
Stating cage includes：The lower cage 2 that upper cage 1, side and upper cage 1 are hinged, lower 2 other side of cage by lock 3 with it is upper
Cage 1 is clamped；The walking mechanism includes：The movable motor 4 that is fixed on cage 1 is fixed at movable motor 4
Walking plectrum 5 on output shaft and the battery 6 for the power supply of movable motor 4；The testing agency includes：It is fixed at
The detection motor 7 of 1 side of cage, is fixed at 8 free end of swing arm at the swing arm 8 being fixed on detection 7 output shaft of motor
The detector 9 and insulated probe stick 10 swung with swing arm 8,10 both ends of insulated probe stick are respectively arranged with probe 11, two
A probe 11 is connect with 9 test side of detector；The control mechanism includes：Controller, position-sensing switch 13, return switch
14, the controller is single-chip microcontroller, and the controller output end is connected with relay, warning device 16, the controller input
End is connected with position-sensing switch 13 and return switch 14；The walking mechanism, testing agency are fixed on cage 1, described
Control mechanism and battery 6 are arranged on lower cage 2 by equipment box 17, and the detector power supply passes through conducting wire 19 and battery
6 connections；The detector data output end is connect with controller input terminal, and the movable motor 4 and detection motor 7 lead to respectively
Power lead 19 is crossed to connect with relay；The setting of return switch 14 is in upper 1 front end of cage, upper 1 front end of the cage inserting
There is push plate 15, the push plate 15 is provided with mandril 12, and the mandril 12 is clamped with return switch 14, the return switch 14 and control
Device input terminal connection processed；
1 both ends of upper cage are provided with more than one guide pin 18.There are two opposite for the walking mechanism setting
Movable motor 4, two 4 output shafts of movable motor are respectively arranged with walking plectrum 5.The walking plectrum 5 is three tooth plectrums.
The rear and front end of entire cage is arranged in guide pin 18, and guide pin 18 is tilted to outside cage, since insulator chain exists
Arc-shaped after the installation of high-altitude, when detection device moves forward and backward, it is straggly that guide pin 18 can be such that detection device smoothly passes through
Sub-pieces, cage both ends, which upwarp, is that the position of insulator chain contact is all arcuate guide piece 18 that both ends upwarp, in this way
Detection device can smoothly front and back be advanced on the insulator chain of arc, and the front end of detection device is mounted on insulator chain
The one end of detection device far from operator, be rear end close to one end of operator.
Return switch 14 is there are two operating position, and one is progressive position, and one is retracted position, and progressive position is located at inspection
The front end of device is surveyed, retracted position is located at detection device rear end, and when progressive position can be switched to retracted position by push plate 15,
The driving walking plectrum 5 of progressive position movable motor 4 will test device and travel forward；Version 15 will be pushed away previously to extract, mandril 12 will return
Cheng Kaiguan 14 pushes progressive position, encounters antistatic ring, 15 quilt of push plate when detection device detection insulator chain reaches the detection end
Contracting is hit back, return switch 14 is pulled back to retracted position by the mandril 12 being fixed in push plate 15；Retracted position movable motor 4 inverts
Driving walking plectrum 5 will test device backward, i.e., operator direction moves.
The front end of entire cage is arranged in push plate, and the both ends of lateral isolation substring are provided with antistatic ring, antistatic
Ring is greater than sub-pieces, so push plate 15 is natural to be stopped by antistatic ring when detection device advances to the end of insulator chain,
Mandril 12, which is taken advantage of a situation, to be topped back, and return switch 14 changes correspondingly operating mode, that is, starts to retract.
Cage set is attached on detected insulator chain when use, then forward travel state is arrived into the setting of return switch 14, it is fixed
Bit switch 13 is detected, and information feeds back to controller, controller starting detection motor 7, detection after having detected sub-pieces
Motor 7 drives swing arm 8 that two probes 11 are sent to the both ends of the sub-pieces, and detector 9 is detected automatically, after the set time
Detecting motor 7 drives swing arm 8 to reset, and then controller is rotated by relay driving movable motor 4, is driven by movable motor 4
Walking plectrum 5 rotate, walking plectrum 5 blocks the plaited skirts of sub-pieces, and testing agency advances on insulator chain, position-sensing switch
13 detected sub-pieces again after information feed back to controller；Detection process back and forth carries out like this, detects last
When piece insulator, push plate 15 can be stopped by antistatic ring, and mandril 12, which is taken advantage of a situation, to be topped back, and return switch 14 changes correspondingly Working mould
Formula starts to retract.Controller controls movable motor 4 by relay and inverts at this time, and detection device is made to return to initial position.Under
Return switch 14 is arranged to forward travel state when secondary use.
Upper cage 1 and lower cage 2 surround insulator string and are locked by lock 3 present invention at work, are mounted on cage
Movable motor 4 on frame 1 drives walking plectrum 5 to rotate, and the plaited skirt that walking plectrum 5 dials insulator chain advances, on upper cage 1
Walking mechanism, testing agency are installed, walking mechanism is mounted on the middle part of cage 1, and walking mechanism is for the detection device exhausted
It advances forward on edge substring, to detect entire insulator chain, the walking mechanism includes movable motor 4, walking plectrum 5, walking
Plectrum 5 is connected on the output shaft of movable motor 4, and movable motor 4 is fixed on cage 1, and the walking mechanism is two sets, left
The right side is mounted side by side on the middle part of cage 1, and when work, two sets of walking mechanisms simultaneously operations, not only operation stability is good, and works as
It is a set of when something goes wrong, it is another set of to can also continue to work, be the relationship of mutual backup between two sets, in order to realize in insulator chain
On to set walking smooth, as shown in Fig. 4, walking plectrum 5 therein is designed as three gears, dials firmly insulator chain using moving tooth
Plaited skirt advances, reliable and stable.Testing agency is mounted on the side of cage 1, for detecting the parameter of every group of insulator chain, detects
Mechanism includes detector 9 and detection motor 7, and detection motor 7 is fixed on 1 side of cage, and detection motor 7 is controlled by swing arm 8
The swing of detector 9 and probe 11 processed drives swing arm 8 using detection motor 7, makes probe 11 close to insulator chain is contradicted, complete
Test after the completion of test, returns to original state using swing arm.
Controller and battery 6 of the present invention by equipment box 17 be arranged on lower cage 2, and be located at lower cage 2 use when
Bottom, the purpose being mounted on lower cage 2 is first is that keep detection device shape more rationally beautiful, it is more reasonable to be laid out, second is that making
Center of gravity is low when in use for detection device, and detection device operation is more stable；Center of gravity when detection device works is located at lower cage, makes
The phenomenon that cage againsts insulator chain, and walking plectrum 5 stirs more smooth stabilization when sub-pieces, is not in skidding.Control
Mechanism includes controller, position-sensing switch, return switch, and wherein return switch moves forward and backward state for control device, positioning
It switchs the walking for controlling walking mechanism and testing agency to position, controller is that single-chip microcontroller is control system core, is used for journey
The functions such as all kinds of detections, data acquisition storage, operation control of whole system are completed in sequence and data processing.
Guide pin 18 is bar shaped, and prolongs the setting of insulator chain direction, and guide pin 18 reduces detection device and concatenates with insulator
Contacting surface product, reduces frictional force.
The present invention is suitable for 220KV or more high-voltage power line tension tower porcelain insulator live detection, especially uses resistance to
Open the route that tower transverse direction porcelain insulator the piece number is more, and insulator chain is grown.
When detection, when plectrum 5 of walking is three tooth, movable motor 4 drives walking plectrum 5 to rotate under the control of the controller
One third circle, sub-pieces of advancing, the confirmation of position-sensing switch 13 have sub-pieces, and detection motor 7 works, and drive swing arm 8,
Swing arm 8 drives insulated probe stick 10 close to sub-pieces, and the probe 11 at 10 both ends of insulated probe stick contradicts sub-pieces two sides, inspection
It surveys device 9 and Insulation monitoring is carried out to sub-pieces, testing result is input to controller, detects good porcelain insulator warning device 16
" drop " sound, voice reporting numerical value when low value or zero, three sound of warning device 16 " drop "；Then it is multiple to invert swing arm 8 for detection motor 7
Position, movable motor, which is again started up, moves on a piece of sub-pieces under detection, and system repeated work is to the last a piece of have been detected
At.
Present invention employs human oriented designs, easy to operate, and weight of equipment is light（3.5 kilograms of total weight）, can significantly mention
High working efficiency reduces the livewire work time and reduces electrician's labor intensity on tower, versatile, can be widely applied to 220kV
Into the detection work of 500kV transmission line of electricity porcelain insulator.
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1. a kind of insulator string detection device, it is characterised in that：It includes the cage for encircling insulator string, is fixed on cage
Walking mechanism, testing agency and control mechanism；
The cage includes：Upper cage（1）, side and upper cage（1）The lower cage being hinged（2）, the lower cage（2）The other side
Pass through lock（3）With upper cage（1）Clamping；
The walking mechanism includes：It is fixed at cage（1）On movable motor（4）, be fixed at movable motor（4）
Walking plectrum on output shaft（5）It and is movable motor（4）The battery of power supply（6）；
The testing agency includes：It is fixed at cage（1）The detection motor of side（7）, be fixed at detection motor
（7）Swing arm on output shaft（8）, be fixed at swing arm（8）Free end with swing arm（8）The detector of swing（9）And insulation
Probe rod（10）, the insulated probe stick（10）Both ends are respectively arranged with probe（11）, two probes（11）With detector
（9）Test side connection；
The control mechanism includes：Controller, position-sensing switch（13）, return switch（14）, the controller is single-chip microcontroller, described
Controller output end is connected with relay, warning device（16）, the controller input terminal is connected with position-sensing switch（13）With return
Cheng Kaiguan（14）；
The walking mechanism, testing agency are fixed at cage（1）On, the control mechanism and battery（6）By setting
Standby case（17）It is arranged in lower cage（2）On, the detector power supply passes through conducting wire（19）With battery（6）Connection；
The detector data output end is connect with controller input terminal, the movable motor（4）With detection motor（7）Lead to respectively
Cross power lead（19）It is connect with relay；
The return switch（14）It is arranged in upper cage（1）Front end, the upper cage（1）Front end is fitted with push plate（15）, described
Push plate（15）It is provided with mandril（12）, the mandril（12）It is switched with return（14）Clamping, the return switch（14）With control
The connection of device input terminal；
The upper cage（1）Both ends are provided with more than one guide pin（18）.
2. a kind of insulator string detection device according to claim 1, it is characterised in that：There are two the walking mechanism settings
Opposite movable motor（4）, two movable motors（4）Output shaft is respectively arranged with walking plectrum（5）.
3. a kind of insulator string detection device according to claim 1 or 2, it is characterised in that：The walking plectrum（5）It is three
Tooth plectrum.
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