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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1995Vol. 65 No. 9

Aegis seeks more distributors

p. 49 · Read in the full issue

Advertising Feature

Talking the Pacific

AUSTRALIAN electronic equipment and component manufacturer, AEGIS, is looking for additional distributors in the Pacific and Asia.

AEGIS manufactures and supplies craft test instruments or the telecommunications industry. They also build Pipe & Cable loca tors, Earth leakage fault locators, Filtered mains conditions for the protection of small switchboards and personal computers, light ning protectors, inductors, and copper coils for many applications.

Key products include: • CZ3OOO Contact Fault Locator. This is a modern direct reading bridge which com bines micro-processor and precision ana logue circuitry to provide fast and accurate measurement of the location of short cir cuits, grounds, and crosses in underground or overhead telephone, data, or signal cables. It features direct readout of the dis tance or overhead telephone, data, or signal cables. It features direct readout of the dis tance to the fault, 2 and 3 wire test, and adjustable compensation for wire gauge and temperature. • CZIOOO Cable Pair Indentification Set.

A beautifully-styled instrument, this

tone/search unit is used for finding conduc tors in multipair cable, distribution boxes, and tag strips. Features include inbuilt speaker, insulated probe tip, completely self contained. • CZ6OOO and CZ4OOO Pipe and Cable Locators. Buried metal pipes and cables can be located or traced using the simple, yet sophisticated, technique of impressing an identifiable electronic signal on the service, and using a sensitive receiver to detect the signal as it radiates from the service along

its length.

• CZ7OOO Earth leakage fault locator.

This instrument is used extensively by Teistra (Telecom Australia), and many elec trical, gas, and water utilities to pinpoint the location of earth leakage faults due to cable damage. It is also used to locate the path and depth of buried pipes and cables. • CZ9OO Conductor Joint Resistance Test Set. This is a simple to use instrument for fast and accurate verification of jointing operations in both in-line and single ended terminations.

As well as being an integral part of all jointing operations, the CZ9OO is invaluable as an operator training aid.

• CZISIOO High Performance Mains Line Conditioner. It employs earthline filtering and transverse connected spike suppres sion varistors to protect digital equipment such as personal computers, instruments, and small telephone switchboard systems.

Approved by power authorities for use in Australia on 240 V 50Hz lines. (Enquiries for alternative power supplies are invited).

AEGIS is a distributor for Harris Dracon craft tools and test instruments. These include a comprehensive range of “Buttinski” hand held test sets, including ruggedised, data safe, and weather resis tant versions. Two “pocket” test sets include the PTSIII data safe model with traffic iden tified and frequency detection capability, and the biTS-1 ISDN Test set. Harris also makes a range of automatic impact wire termination tools with blades for many applications.

Enquiries are invited from potential users and from distributors who have the capabili ty to provide good local support to users, and should be directed to: Hugh Logie, Export Manager, Aegis Pty Ltd, 141 Christmas Street, Fairfield, Victoria, 3076, Australia. Telephone (613) 94811422, Fax (613) 94894020.