Self-Monitoring

The relay’s self-monitoring system manages fault conditions during operation and notifies the user of existing faults.

There are two types of fault indications

Internal Relay Fault (IRF) indication and warning.

When the self-monitoring system detects a permanent internal relay fault and prevents the relay from operating, the green LED (Ready) will flash.

At the same time, the normally open IRF contact (also known as the IRF relay) will open and a fault code will be displayed on the LCD. The fault code is numeric and identifies the type of fault.

Time Synchronization

Time synchronization of the relay real-time clock can be achieved in two different ways

Serial communication via communication protocol or via digital input.

When time synchronization is achieved via serial communication, the time is written directly to the relay’s real-time clock.

Any digital input can be configured for time synchronization and used for minute pulse or second pulse synchronization.

The synchronization pulse is automatically selected, depending on the time range in which the pulse occurs.

Two pulses need to be detected within an acceptable time range before the relay activates pulse synchronization.

Conversely, if the synchronization pulse disappears, the relay requires the equivalent of four pulse time ranges to de-synchronize the pulse.

The time must be set manually once via serial communication or the HMI.

When setting the time via serial communication and using minute pulse synchronization, only the year-month-day-hour-minute is written to the relay’s real-time clock;

When using seconds pulse synchronization, only year-month-day-hour-minute-second is written. The relay’s real-time clock will round to the nearest whole second or whole minute.

depending on whether seconds pulse synchronization or minutes pulse synchronization is used. When setting the time via the HMI, the entire time will be written to the relay’s real-time clock.

If the difference between the synchronization pulse and the relay’s real-time clock for seconds pulses exceeds ±0.05 seconds, or for minutes pulses exceeds ±2 seconds, the synchronization pulse will be rejected.

Time synchronization is always triggered on the rising edge of the digital input signal. The time is adjusted by accelerating or decelerating the relay clock.

In this way, the clock neither stops nor jumps suddenly during time adjustment.

Typical accuracy of time synchronization via digital inputs is ± 2.5 ms for second pulse synchronization and ± 5 ms for minute pulse synchronization.