Relay code of pratice

Relay code ofpractice

Relay code of practice

1.Theentire wiring of circuitry for indications, alarms, metering and protectionshould be permanent wiring.
2.

The leadsshould be marked and identified by ferrules near terminals.

3.

Everylead should end at a terminal point and no junction by twisting is allowed.

4.

Thewiring should be by copper leads for C.T secondary for all cores i.e. meteringcores as well as protection cores and for
PT secondary for protection core.
5.

Thewiring should be by copper leads 1.07 The copper lead for 1.05 & 1.06 aboveshould be stranded but not single lead
type.
6.

Aluminiumleads can be used for indication, alarms and PT secondary for metering butstranded wires only are to be
used. But copper leads are always preferable forthese said purposes.
7.

Theterminations should be lugged by ring shape ‘O’ lugs. ‘U’ shape lugs should beavoided since ‘U’ shape lugs may slip
if terminal is loosen.
8.

For CTSecondary terminations, two nuts with one spring washer and two flat washers tobe compulsorily used.
9.

The CTterminal strips should be stud type with nuts and not screw-in-type.
10.

Wherevertwo sets of batteries are available, the primary protection and back-upprotection should be from different
batteries.
11.

Where thereis only one battery at an Electrical Power Substation, the primary and back-upprotections should be given
D.C supply through two individual circuits withindependent fuses run from D.C bus.
12.

When CBshave two trip coils, both main protection and backup protection will energizeboth the trip coils.
13.

D.C andA.C supplies should not be taken through different cores of the same cable.Totally different cables should be
used for DC and AC supplies.
14.
Independent D.C cables should be run to eachequipment in the yard and looping of D.C supply from one equipment to
other isnot permitted.
15.

The D.Cemergency lighting in substation should be through independent cables and notmixed up with protection and
other circuitry.
16.

Standard colour codes for wires in controlcircuit of different sizes should be as follows,

sr. PURPOSE SIZE COLOR

1 Indication, 1.5 mm2 Gray

Alarm, trip,
close etc

2 Red Phase 1.5 mm2 Red

Metering PT
Circuit

3 Yellow Phase 1.5 mm2 Yellow

Metering PT
Circuit

4 Blue Phase 1.5 mm2 Blue

Metering PT
Circuit

5 Red Phase 2.5 mm2 Red

Protection PT
Circuit

6 Yellow Phase 2.5 mm2 Yellow

Protection PT
Circuit
7 Blue Phase 2.5 mm2 Blue
Protection PT
Circuit

8 Red Phase 2.5 mm2 Red

Metering and
Protection CT
Circuit

9 Yellow Phase 2.5 mm2 Yellow

Metering and
Protection CT
Circuit

10 Blue Phase 2.5 mm2 Blue

Metering and
Protection CT
Circuit

11 Phase for 2.5 mm2 Red

auxiliary AC
supply

12 Neutral for 2.5 mm2 Black

auxiliary AC
supply

13 Common star 2.5 mm2 Black

point of CTs

14 Common star 2.5 mm2 Black

point of
 Protection PTs

15 Common star 1.5 mm2 Black

point of
Metering PTs

16 Earthing 2.5 mm2 Green

Connection

17.
The lead numbers are also standardized asfollows so that anyone can easily identify the
purpose for which the lead isconnected-

sr Alphabet Series Purpose Example

1 J Series D.C Incoming J1, J2, etc.

2 K Series Control – K1, K2, K3 etc.

Closing,
Tripping, etc.

3 L Series Alarms, L1, L2, L3, etc.

indications and
annunciations

4 M Series Motor Circuit M1, M2, etc.

5 E Series Potential E1, E2, E3, etc.

transformer
 secondary

6 H Series LT A.C Supply H1, H2, H3, etc..

7 A Series C.T secondary A1, A2, A3, etc.

for special
protection

8 B Series Bus bar B1, B2, B3, etc..

protection

9 C Series Protection C1, C2, C3, etc.

Circuits

10 D Series Metering Circuit D1, D2, D3, etc

18.
The CT ratios available and adopted with numberof cores shall be displayed on each panel as follows: (with underlined
positionas adopted).
19.

400 – 200 – 100 / 1-1-1

20.

19 Wherever CT cores are not used “SHORTINGLOOPS” should be provided in CT secondary terminals and not in
marshallingboxes or at panels.
21.

20 The Cable entries in the equipment, marshallingboxes and panels should be through appropriate size of cable glands.
No othermeans are allowed.
22.

21 PT secondary should have group MOCBs with D.Calarm.

23.

22 Few cells from a battery set should not beused for separate low voltage D.C circuits. Here D.C – D.C converters
may beemployed for utilizing full D.C voltage of the entire battery as input.Standardlead numbers used in control
circuit of protection of power systemCertain lead numbers are standardized asfollows and should be compulsorily
adopted with ferrules at terminations ofleads.
Main DCPositive supply – J1
Main DC Negative supply – J2
DC Positive bus inside panel – K1
DC Negative bus inside panel – K2Remote Close- K15R
Remote Trip - K5R
Local Close - K15L
Local Trip - K5L

Metering CT secondary’s – D11, D31, D51, D71etc.

Protection CT secondary – C11, C31, C51, C71etc.
Special Protection CT secondary – A11, A31,A51, A71 etc.
PT secondary – E11, E31, E51, E71 etc.
Different relay device number used in protection of power system

Mark Number Name of the Device

2 Time delay relay

3 Checking or Interlocking relay

21 Distance relay

25 Check synchronizing relay

27 Under voltage relay

30 Annunciator relay

32 Directional power (Reverse power) relay

37 Low forward power relay

40 Field failure (loss of excitation) relay

46 Negative phase sequence relay

49 Machine or Transformer Thermal relay

50 Instantaneous Over current relay

51 A.C IDMT Over current relay

52 Circuit breaker

52a Circuit breaker Auxiliary switch “Normally open” (‘a’

contact)

52b Circuit breaker Auxiliary switch “Normally closed” (‘b’

contact)
55 Power Factor relay

56 Field Application relay

59 Overvoltage relay

60 Voltage or current balance relay

64 Earth fault relay

67 Directional relay

68 Locking relay

74 Alarm relay

76 D.C Over current relay

78 Phase angle measuring or out of step relay

79 AC Auto reclose relay

80 Monitoring loss of DC supply

81 Frequency relay

81U Under frequency relay

81O Over frequency relay

83 Automatic selective control or transfer relay

85 Carrier or pilot wire receive relay

86 Tripping Relay

87 Differential relay

87G Generator differential relay

87GT Overall differential relay

87U UAT differential relay

87NT Restricted earth fault relay

95 Trip circuit supervision relay

99 Over flux relay

186A Auto reclose lockout relay

186B Auto reclose lockout relay