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November 8, 2017 by admin
Power Line Carrier Communication (PLCC) is used for the purpose of protection of line and
communication between the two stations. Two different PLCC channels are used for the protection
of a single line. This is the reason, you will notice that wave traps are normally installed in R and B
phase of transmission line. The two wave traps corresponds to two different channels of PLCC. There
are two PLCC Panels corresponding to two channels i.e. Channel-1 (CH-1) and Channel-2 (CH-2) for
sending / receiving signals for each line. Thus for any single line there shall be three PLCC Panels,
Channel-1, Channel-2 and Speech channel.
Carrier Signal is sent through these two channels to the remote end in case of actuation of Zone-
1 protection and Direct Trip (DT) signal is sent in the event of three phase trip. Similarly, Carrier
Signal or DT signal is received from the remote end via dedicated PLCC Panels.
In each Channel, three codes are used i.e. code A, B and C. Code A and B are meant for Carrier
Signals while code C is dedicated for Direct Trip Signal.
Code A of Channel-1 is generally looped with Code B of CH-2. Similarly Code A of CH-2 is looped with
Code A of CH-1. Therefore when carrier signal is received from protection relay of one end in any
one of the Channel, then the signal to remote end will be sent through both the channels i.e. CH-1
and CH-2. Looping of code C is normally not done for Direct Trip.