Steve Didier began his fault locating career with a contracting company serving a major East Coast utility company in 1989. Starting off as a laborer, Steve quickly learned the trade and gained the respect of his supervisors - attaining his first position promotion after just 18 months. After that Steve concentrated on learning and perfecting all aspects of the trade. He has experience with cable installation, street light pole installation, street light pole and fixture assembly, secondary URD installation, lateral electric service installation, and of course fault locating.
In 2002 Steve was promoted to a supervisory position, where he jumped immediately into developing training programs for his fellow employees. Steve designed and built an outdoor training center and developed a comprehensive secondary fault locating instructional class for the company. Later he designed and taught several other training modules, including a transformer entry class.
Most recently Steve has been deeply involved in developing safety training classes that relate directly to underground electric work. He has researched and designed many safety "tool box" talks and is in the process of developing his own apprentice-styled step by step training/education system.
Steve designed this site to share his vast experience and technical expertise with anyone that may be involved with, or interested in cable fault locating. He will attempt to explain basic fault locating in easy to understand terms while also focusing on safety and effectiveness. Basically he will share all that he has learned in his 20+ years of doing this kind of work with you, hopefully this information will help you to understand fault locating and learn an effective method to use.
Steve showing how to properly connect the Timco Spitfire