CABLE RADAR: How Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) can help you diagnose trouble or changes on all sorts of cables.

October 27, 2022 at 9:00 am

By Mark Govier

Mark Govier, product manager for Tempo Communications’ range of Time Domain Reflectometers, will give you a primer on how TDR works, how best to use it, and why it can be applied to many different cable types. He will present The “how and why” of TDR, explaining what it can and cannot identify, in addition to giving some examples of less commonly found cable types on which it can prove very useful. TDR fires pulses of energy into cables and monitors the line for data about conditions on the line; these manifest themselves as reflections that occur whenever there is a change in the impedance of the cable.