The Upstream Impedance Trace is an optional tool (which we recommend you configure) allows a user to generate an impedance report for a section of electrical network ad hoc. The report shows the individual device impedances along the selected section of network and helps to identify potential data issues. A user clicks a point on the network where they would like to start the report and the tool then traces upstream to the source finding all impedance contributing devices along the trace path. This tool helps to identify sections of network where impedance may be defaulted or incorrectly attributed leading to incorrect power flow results such as inaccurate FLA predictions.

The Conductor Mismatch Tool can be invoked by an admin type user and runs in the background. It attempts to find sections of network where conductor impedances look incorrect. For example if a circuit backbone was primarily large conductors and in the middle there was a very small conductor (for example, 556ACSR to 2/0 AL), this would most likely be representative of a data error in the attribution of conductor sizing. These potential data issues are placed in a report which can then be reviewed by an admin type user or displayed in the NMS user interface.