BE1-951
Reporting and Alarm Functions
6-1
SECTION 6 • REPORTING AND ALARM
FUNCTIONS
INTRODUCTION
This section describes all available reports from the BE1-951 relay and how they are set and retrieved. All
alarm functions are also described along with how major and minor alarms are programmed (or mapped).
RELAY IDENTIFIER INFORMATION
BE1-951 relays have two relay identification fields: Relay ID and Station ID. These fields are used in the
header information lines of the Fault Reports, the Oscillograph Records, and the Sequence of Events
Records. Relay and Station identification assignments are made using the SG-ID command. Identification
settings are summarized in Table 6-1.
Table 6-1. Identification Settings
Setting
Range
Default
relayID
1 to 30 alphanumeric characters
W
BE1-951
stationID
1 to 30 alphanumeric characters
W
SUBSTATION_1
W
No spaces are allowed in labels; any spaces used in the labels are stripped when the
label change is saved. Use the character _ (Shift + Underscore) to create a break in
characters. An example of this is station_name.
SG-ID Command
Purpose:
Reads or changes the relay ID and station ID used in reports.
Syntax:
SG–ID[=<relayID (up to 10 char)>,<stationID (up to 30 char)>]
Comments: See Table 6-1 for SG-ID settings information.
SG-ID Command Examples
1.
Enter a relayID of FEEDER_3 and a stationID of HIGHLAND_NORTH.
>SG-ID=FEEDER_3,HIGHLAND_NORTH
2.
Display the relayID and stationID labels.
>SG-ID
FEEDER_3,HIGHLAND_NORTH
CLOCK
The clock function is used by the demand reporting function, the fault reporting function, the oscillograph
recording function, and the sequence of events recorder function to time-stamp events. The clock function
records the year in two digit format. None of the functions that use the clock perform any date math
calculations or sorting of information by date so the year 2000 does not present a problem.
IRIG Port
IRIG time code signal connections are located on the rear panel. When a valid time code signal is detected
at the port, it is used to synchronize the clock function. Note that the IRIG time code signal doesn’t contain
year information. For this reason, it is necessary to enter the date even when using an IRIG signal. Year
information is stored in nonvolatile memory so that when operating power is restored after an outage, and
the clock is re-synchronized the current year is restored. When the clock rolls over to a new year, the year
is automatically incremented in nonvolatile memory. An alarm bit is included in the programmable alarm
function for loss of IRIG signal. The alarm point monitors for IRIG signal loss once a valid signal is detected
at the IRIG port.
