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Changing current during a fault and overcurrent relays

Changing current during a fault and overcurrent relays

Changing current during a fault and overcurrent relays

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How do microprocessor relays time their overcurrent elements when the fault current changes during the fault?

RE: Changing current during a fault and overcurrent relays

In essence they are "filling the bucket". Say you have a steady state fault current that results in tripping at 0.833 seconds and the relay process runs at 4 calculations per cycle. That means it's going to take 200 processor intervals to get to a trip, each interval adding .005 to the bucket. After 200 of those .005 results the sum is 1 and the trip is issued.

For varying currents, at each processor interval the relay accumulates some amount; take the trip time for the measured current and divide that into the length of the processor interval. Repeat until the sum gets to 1.

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RE: Changing current during a fault and overcurrent relays

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Yeah, that is what I was expecting. It makes moving on the time overcurrent charts a little bit more complicated than sliding left and right.

RE: Changing current during a fault and overcurrent relays

The microprocessor simulates the integration that an electro-mechanical relay would do.

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