GE B30 UR Series Instruction Manual

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GE Multilin B30 Bus Differential System 5-1415 SETTINGS 5.6 GROUPED ELEMENTS5INITIATION STAGE:A FlexLogic operand representing the protection trip signal initially sent to the breaker must be selected to initiate thescheme. The initiating signal should be sealed-in if primary fault detection can reset before the breaker failure timers havefinished timing. The seal-in is supervised by current level, so it is reset when the fault is cleared. If desired, an incompletesequence seal-in reset can be implemented by using the initiating operand to also initiate a FlexLogic timer, set longer thanany breaker failure timer, whose output operand is selected to block the breaker failure scheme.Schemes can be initiated either directly or with current level supervision. It is particularly important in any application todecide if a current-supervised initiate is to be used. The use of a current-supervised initiate results in the breaker failure ele-ment not being initiated for a breaker that has very little or no current flowing through it, which may be the case for trans-former faults. For those situations where it is required to maintain breaker fail coverage for fault levels below the BF1 PHAMP SUPV PICKUP or the BF1 N AMP SUPV PICKUP setting, a current supervised initiate should not be used. This featureshould be utilized for those situations where coordinating margins may be reduced when high speed reclosing is used.Thus, if this choice is made, fault levels must always be above the supervision pickup levels for dependable operation ofthe breaker fail scheme. This can also occur in breaker-and-a-half or ring bus configurations where the first breaker closesinto a fault; the protection trips and attempts to initiate breaker failure for the second breaker, which is in the process ofclosing, but does not yet have current flowing through it.When the scheme is initiated, it immediately sends a trip signal to the breaker initially signaled to trip (this feature is usuallydescribed as re-trip). This reduces the possibility of widespread tripping that results from a declaration of a failed breaker.DETERMINATION OF A BREAKER FAILURE CONDITION:The schemes determine a breaker failure condition via three paths. Each of these paths is equipped with a time delay, afterwhich a failed breaker is declared and trip signals are sent to all breakers required to clear the zone. The delayed paths areassociated with breaker failure timers 1, 2, and 3, which are intended to have delays increasing with increasing timer num-bers. These delayed paths are individually enabled to allow for maximum flexibility.Timer 1 logic (early path) is supervised by a fast-operating breaker auxiliary contact. If the breaker is still closed (as indi-cated by the auxiliary contact) and fault current is detected after the delay interval, an output is issued. Operation of thebreaker auxiliary switch indicates that the breaker has mechanically operated. The continued presence of current indicatesthat the breaker has failed to interrupt the circuit.Timer 2 logic (main path) is not supervised by a breaker auxiliary contact. If fault current is detected after the delay interval,an output is issued. This path is intended to detect a breaker that opens mechanically but fails to interrupt fault current; thelogic therefore does not use a breaker auxiliary contact.The timer 1 and 2 paths provide two levels of current supervision, high-set and low-set, that allow the supervision level tochange from a current which flows before a breaker inserts an opening resistor into the faulted circuit to a lower level afterresistor insertion. The high-set detector is enabled after timeout of timer 1 or 2, along with a timer that will enable the low-set detector after its delay interval. The delay interval between high-set and low-set is the expected breaker opening time.Both current detectors provide a fast operating time for currents at small multiples of the pickup value. The overcurrentdetectors are required to operate after the breaker failure delay interval to eliminate the need for very fast resetting overcur-rent detectors.Timer 3 logic (slow path) is supervised by a breaker auxiliary contact and a control switch contact used to indicate that thebreaker is in or out-of-service, disabling this path when the breaker is out-of-service for maintenance. There is no currentlevel check in this logic as it is intended to detect low magnitude faults and it is therefore the slowest to operate.OUTPUT:The outputs from the schemes are:• FlexLogic operands that report on the operation of portions of the scheme• FlexLogic operand used to re-trip the protected breaker• FlexLogic operands that initiate tripping required to clear the faulted zone. The trip output can be sealed-in for anadjustable period.• Target message indicating a failed breaker has been declared• Illumination of the faceplate Trip LED (and the Phase A, B or C LED, if applicable)