ABB RED615 Technical Manual page 581

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615 series
Technical Manual
A070970 V1 EN
Figure 308: Improved connection for parallel trip contacts where the test
current flows through all wires and joints
Several trip circuit supervision functions parallel in circuit
Not only the trip circuit often have parallel trip contacts, it is also possible that the
circuit has multiple TCS circuits in parallel. Each TCS circuit causes its own
supervising current to flow through the monitored coil and the actual coil current is
a sum of all TCS currents. This must be taken into consideration when determining
the resistance of R .
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Setting the TCS function in a protection IED not-in-use does not
typically affect the supervising current injection.
Trip circuit supervision with auxiliary relays
Many retrofit projects are carried out partially, that is, the old electromechanical
relays are replaced with new ones but the circuit breaker is not replaced. This
creates a problem that the coil current of an old type circuit breaker can be too high
for the protection IED trip contact to break.
The circuit breaker coil current is normally cut by an internal contact of the circuit
breaker. In case of a circuit breaker failure, there is a risk that the protection IED
trip contact is destroyed since the contact is obliged to disconnect high level of
electromagnetic energy accumulated in the trip coil.
Section 6
Supervision functions
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