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Triconex Corporation
TRICON Hardware
TRICON Hardware

System
Grounding

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Electrical systems must be connected to ground

in order to:
 Protect personnel from electric shock.
 Protect equipment from damage.



Protect the reliability
Ensure the site from and
lightning damage.
electrical integrity of the
system.
 To have interference free operation

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What is Ground?
 It is a connection to the earth, or to something used
in place of the earth.

Why
 The do we
ground require
is a
required ground?
as it is used to establish and
maintain the potential of the earth.

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TRICON System typically utilizes three (3)

separate ground references:
 AC safety or chassis ground (protective earth
ground) - TRICON Chassis Ground

 Signal or Instrument
- TRICON (or Master
Signal Ground (TSG) Reference) ground
 Field loop shield ground

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 AC Safety ground is applied to each chassis

 Signal
ground or
is Instrument (orpower
the field loop Master Reference)
supply return
 Field loop shield ground is for referencing
instrument loop wiring shields typically to
instrument or Master Reference ground

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TRICON TRICON
Main Expansion
Chassis Chassis

Each chassis MUST BE

connected to AC Safety
TRICON ground to ensure personnel
Expansion safety!
Chassis

AC Safety Ground Bar

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Each V5 - V8 Digital I/O

Term Panel MUST BE
TRICON connected to AC Safety
Chassis ground to ensure personnel
safety!

Digital Input Term

AC Safety Ground Bar

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 AC Safety Ground MUST be applied to each

chassis (Main, Expansion & RXM) regardless of
floating or non-floating systems.

 AC Safety Ground MUST be applied to each V5 -

V8 DI/DO Term Panel. (floating/non-floating) as
the V5 - V8 I/O ELCO cables do not have a
connecting wire to chassis. Connection to AC
Safety Ground for V9 Terms are not required.
 AC Safety Ground MUST NOT be applied to
AI/AO Term Panels and #3504E.
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AC Safety Ground Analog System

Isolated +24
Power Supply
TRICON
Chassis V+ V-
Once V- is connected to a
AI/AO Term Panel, it is
connected to the internal
TRICON Signal Ground
(TSG).
If the TRICON RC Clip is
installed, TSG is connected
to AC Safety Ground via a
parallel resistor/capacitor
circuit.
Analog Input Term
TSG V- is referenced to AC
Safety within millivolts
AC Safety range.

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Dedicated Ground Analog System

Isolated +24
Power Supply
TRICON
Chassis V+ V- If the TRICON RC Clip is
removed, TSG is
disconnected from AC
Safety Ground.

TSG MUST BE connected

to a dedicated ground.
One connection is required
and is completed at the
Main Chassis
remote RXM location & any
locations.
Analog Input Terms
The dedicated ground is
Dedicated Ground typically considered a quiet
earth ground or DCS
AC Safety Master Reference Ground.

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Dedicated Ground Analog System

Isolated +24
Power Supply
TRICON
Chassis V+ V-
Field loop wiring shields
are typically connected to
TRICON Term Panels.

The TRICON
shield ground Term
screwsPanel
should be tied to
instrument ground or the
dedicated ground.

Analog Input Terms

Dedicated Ground
AC Safety

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TRIOCN RC network

V5 - V8 System

#8300/#8301/#8305/#8306 TRICON Power

Modules are equipped with a simple RC network
connected between the signal and chassis ground

#8300A/#8301A/#8305A/#8306A TRICON Power

Modules allows one to disconnect the internal RC

network
ground. and directly access the TRICON signal

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TRIOCN RC network

V9 System

The RC network is external to the TRICON Power

Modules.

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TRIOCN RC network
Stand-Alone Digital-Only System

Connecting the RC jumper will be sufficient

Stand-Alone Analog-Only or Mixed

Analog/Digital System
Connecting the RC jumper will be sufficient

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TRIOCN RC network
Integration with DCS

If
RC TRICON is the
jumper (at a stand-alone digital-only
power module for V5 tosystem,
V8) is connection
sufficient of the

If TRICON is a stand-alone analog-only or mixed analog/digital

system, a single
ground and connection
the common must of
tie point be the
made between
DCS signal TRICON
ground signal

A TriStation Link with model #410x ICM/EICM may cause a

problem if as
connection thethe
TriStation
TRICON. PC does not share the safety ground

Exercise caution especially if the TRICON and the DCS are

physically separated
problem could or reside
also occur in separate
with any buildings. including
RS232 connection The sameany
MODBUS connections.
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 Connecting two pieces of equipment located in

different buildings
 TRICON I/O bus RS- RS-485 connection
extended beyond the control room.

Current
not held flow
at a via the Shield
constant, non-ground
varyingwhich is
voltage.
 Implementing a “floating” ground system.

 In most industrial control systems, the return side

of the field power supply is directly connected to
earth.
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Emergency Shutdown (ESD) and Fire & Gas

detection applications very often require the
I/O system to be "floating".

In a floating
supply ground system,
is not directly thetofield
connected power
earth
ground , but is connected to an artificial
ground which can be created with a high-
high-
impedance resistor voltage divider.

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24VDC
+
24VDC POWER - TO ETP POWER
SUPPLY UNIT
R1
0VDC

R2
+
24VDC POWER -
SUPPLY UNIT

EARTH GROUND

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The main use of a floating ground system with a

suitable Ground Fault Detector allows for the
implementation of a "no-
"no-fail system".

A “no-
“no--wiring
field fail system”
fault tois earth
fault-
fault-ground.
tolerant of any single

These ground faults should be detectable by

the GFD, and if repaired in a timely manner, a
shutdown or disturbance to the application
should be avoided.
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 The main purpose of a GFD is to detect the

presence of an unintentional connection to
earth ground, other than that of the fixed
high-impedance connection.

 A GFD should provide some means of alarming

upon detecting an ground fault.

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The HOLEC GFD has a sensitivity of 20mA

minimum (between +ve and -ve), when used with
an external 1.2k resistor divider in 24VDC
applications.
+
+
24VDC POWER -
SUPPLY UNIT HOLEC
R1
-

R2

24VDC POWER +-
SUPPLY UNIT

EARTH GROUND

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It is common to install multiple GFDs in a

system, either one per Marshalling
Cabinet or one per termination panel.
After a ground fault has been detected,
only the field
attached wiring
to the of the
alarmed GFDpoints
needs to be
searched for the earth short.

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Ground Fault Detection with D.I. Module

DI ETP
24VDC PS+ +
PS- -

HOLEC
R1

DI MODULE

R2

0VDC

EARTH GROUND

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Ground Fault Detection with D.I. Module

TheGFDs
of following limitations
with digital apply
inputs: to the use
 A GFD always detects ground faults on


the positive
A GFD alwaysside of theground
detects contact.
faults on
the negative side of the contact when the
contact
open, theisGFD
closed. When
might notthe contact
detect is
the fault.

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Ground Fault Detection with D.I. Module

 When the contact is open, the impedance

of the input circuitry is in series with the
fault impedance.
 If the sum of the impedances exceeds
the sensitivity of the GFD, then the GFD
might not detect the fault.

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Ground Fault Detection with D.O. Module

FROM DO
MODULE

DO ETP
24VDC PS+ +
PS- -

HOLEC
R1

R2

0VDC

EARTH GROUND

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Ground Fault Detection with D.O. Module

TheGFDs
of following limitations
with digital apply to the use
outputs:
 A GFD always detects ground faults on


the negative
A GFD alwaysside of theground
detects load. faults on
the positive side of the load when the
load
GFD is energized.
might When
not detect de-
default.
the -energized, a

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Ground Fault Detection with D.O. Module

 When de-
de - energized, the impedance of the
load is in series with the fault impedance.
 If the sum of the impedances exceeds

the sensitivity of the GFD, then the GFD

might not detect the fault.

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Ground Fault Detection with A.I. Module

AI ETP

180
24VDC PS+ +
PS- -
Tx
R1 HOLEC
250

R2

0VDC

EARTH GROUND

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Ground Fault Detection with A.I. Module

From
circuittest results
analysis, weand the electrical
confirmed that the
accuracy degradation in the presence of a
ground fault is inherent in any 4-
4-20mA
instumentation loops.

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TRICONEX
Your supplier for all
your Safety and Critical
Control Needs
Defects
Down Time
False Trips

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8-POINT ANALOG OUTPUT MODULE BACKPLANE CABLE TERMINATION

PANEL

A Loop powe r
PW RA (22A)

Selector
Logic
Current
loopback PWRB (24A)

DAC

RTN (22E)

B RTN (24E)

Selector
Logic Current
loopback

DAC
OUT1 (2A)

C RTN1 (2E)

Selector
Logic
Current
loopback

DAC

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TERMINATION PANEL CABLE BACKPLANE 32-POINT ANALOG INPUT MODULES

to
spare Mux
Isola tion/filte ring

1 Amp ADC

180 ohms
32
Hi-Ref

Low-Ref

to Mux
other
points
Note 3

1 Amp ADC
PS1

PS2
32
PS1 Hi-Ref

PS2 Low-Ref

Mux

1 Amp ADC

32
Hi-Ref

Low-Ref

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 Types of Power Types of Earth Connection Basically on two types of
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Utility Power Clean Earth Ground :-
Mains Power Dirty Earth a) AC - dirty
UPS Utility Earth b) DC - clean
Clean Low noise System earth
Floating System Instrument earth
AC / DC Computer

EMC
Electromagnetic Compatibility
-> Started by the military application 15 yrs ago

Use 3 core power cables for optimal line filtering

Power source is reference to earth
Floating power contains much more noise than earth reference
Floating power needs isolation transformer
Floating power may drift to any common mode potential

Line filtering requires earth connection

Impedance if 3 core power is 100 ohms

I/A designed by National Electrical Code

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Galvanic isolation
Shielding
Enclosures

Signal to noise ratio

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Expansion Chassis

1/4" Bolt on left side

of each chassis

Main Chassis

Expansion Chassis

AC Safety Ground
Bus Bar AC
SAFETY
GROUND
(Protective Earth)

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