Ptp Configuration - GE 869 Communications Manual

CHAPTER 3: TIME PROTOCOLS

PTP Configuration

869 MOTOR PROTECTION SYSTEM – COMMUNICATIONS GUIDE
Path:
Setpoints > Device > Real Time Clock > Precision Time
PORT 4(5) PTP FUNCTION
Range: Disabled, Enabled
Default: Enabled
When the port setting is selected as "Disabled," PTP is disabled on the port. The relay
does not generate, or listen to, PTP messages on the port.
PORT 4(5) PATH DELAY ADDER
Range: 0 to 60000 ns in steps of 1 ns
Default: 0 ns
The time delivered by PTP is advanced by the time value in the setting prior to the time
being used to synchronize the relay's real time clock. This is to compensate for time
delivery delays not compensated for in the network. In a fully compliant Power Profile
(PP) network, the peer delay and the processing delay mechanisms compensate for all
the delays between the grandmaster and the relay. In such networks, the setting is zero.
In networks containing one or more switches and/or clocks that do not implement both
of these mechanisms, not all delays are compensated, so the time of message arrival at
the relay is later than the time indicated in the message. The setting can be used to
approximately compensate for the delay. Since the relay is not aware of network
switching that dynamically changes the amount of uncompensated delay, there is no
setting that always completely corrects for uncompensated delay. A setting can be
chosen that reduces worst-case error to half of the range between minimum and
maximum uncompensated delay if these values are known.
REAL-TIME CLOCK
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