Principle Of Operation - ABB REF601 Applications Manual

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REF601 / REJ601
Application Manual

Principle of Operation

The operation of the breaker failure protection can be described using a module
diagram.
Figure 3: Circuit breaker failure protection functional module diagram
The measured phase currents are compared phasewise to the set I
neutral current is compared to the set I
exceeds the respective setting, the level detector gives permissive to CBFP
initiation logic.
The CBFP initiation logic is triggered by the rising edge of the START (from
protection function I>, I>>, I>>>, Io> and Io>>) input or by the rising edge of the
BF PROTEXT input wired to digital input of relay as external protection trip.
Retrip function
On receipt of trigger signal and reporting of exceeding value of the current by level
detector, the CBFP initiation logic activates Timer 1. In case if relay is configured
to received CB closed position information at any binary input that information is
also used in deciding activation of Timer 1.
Once activated, the timer runs until the set t
characteristic for retrip function is according to definite time. When the operation
timer has reached the maximum time value, the BF STAGE1 output is activated.
Protection and Control Function
. If either of these measured values
oCBFP
value has elapsed. The time
retrip
Section 4
. Similarly the
CBFP
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