Abstract:Damping of intermediate joints of cold-shrinkable cable is one of the important reasons for its failures. The existing researches have shown that the impedance characteristics of intermediate joints of cold-shrinkable cable with damp defects will change. The impedance of whole cable can be detected by frequency domain reflection method, and after the analysis of its impedance characteristics, the defect can be located and the defect type can be determined. Therefore, conduct-ing the research on impedance characteristics of intermediate joints of moistened cold-shrinkable cable can provide theoretical and data support for the diagnosis of moisture in cable intermediate joint. The accelerated moisture experiments on intermediate joint sample of a 10 kV cold-shrinkable cable is carried out, and then a reflection coefficient spectrum detection device is used to regularly detect and research its impedance characteristics. The experiment results show that as the degree of moisture increases, the reflection coefficient of cable intermediate joint shows a trend of first decreasing and then increasing. After restoring its time-domain waveform, it is found that its characteristics develop and change from "left positive and right negative" to "left and right balance" and then to "left negative and right positive".