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T Y P E K C-4 R E LA Y
T ra n sform e r
The transformer i s a saturating type consisting
of a tapped primary winding and a secondary winding.
A varistor is connected across the secondary wind
ing to reduce the voltage peaks applied to the in
duction cylinder unit and phase shifting capacitor.
I n d i c at i n g C a n t a c t o r S w i t c h U n i t ( I C S . )
The iJldicating contactor s witch i s a small d-e
operated clapper type device. A m agnetic armature,
to which leaf-spring mounted contacts are attached,
is attracted to the magnetic core upon energization
of the switch. When the switch closes, the moving
contacts bridge two stationary contacts, completing
the trip circuit Also during this operation two fin
gers on the armature deflect a spring located on the
front of the switch, which allows the operation indi
cator target to drop. The target is reset from the out
side of the case by a push rod located at the bottom
of the cover.
The front spring, in addition to holding the tar
get, pro vides restraint for the armature and thus con
trols the pickup valve of the switch.
OPER ATI ON
I n s t a n t a n e o u s O v e r c u r r e n t U n i t
Operation o f the instantaneous overcurrent unit
occurs when the primary current of the transfo rmer
exceeds a value as marked on the tap plate, Upon
application of current to the transformer, a voltage
is induced in the secondary winding. This voltage
is impressed upon the parallel connected p airs o f
cylinder unit coils.
The c ap acitor connected in
series with one p air of coils shifts the current flowing
in these coils in reference to the current flowing in
the other pair of coils. As a result, the air gap
fluxes of the cylinder unit are out of phase and a
contact closing torque is produced.
The primary of the transformer i s tapped and
brought out to a tap connector block for ease in
changing the pickup current of the relay. The use of
a tapped transformer provides approximately the same
energy level at a given multiple of pick up current for
any tap setting, resulting in one time curve through
o ut the range of the relay.
G e n e r a l O pe r a t i o n Of S c h e m e
When t h e proper break er successfully inter
rupts the fault current the KC-4 relay quickly disabl es
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CONTACTOII
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OVER CURRENT
(NID!JLE CYL.UNIT)
UISTUTANEDUS
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(lOWEll CYL UNIT)
CHAS S I S OPEIIATED
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IUD HANDLE
TEST SWITCH
CUitiiUT TEST
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Fig.
3.
Internal Schematic of the KC-4 Relay in the FT-4 7
Case.
the breaker-failure timing circuit In addition , where
the line relays trip two breakers such as on a ring
bus, the KC-4 sel ects which of the two breakers has
failed. When the phase o vercurrent units I and I
are set above load-current l evel , the KC-4
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so func
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tions as a fault detector to prevent undesired tripping
by test p ersonneL The following p aragraphs describe
KC-4 operation in more detail for different system
bus connections.
S i n g l e B u s /S i n g l e B re a k e r A rr a n g e m en t
Unless something fails, current flow in the
breaker should cease shortly after the trip circuit i s
energized.
The time interval between these two
occurrences will be the breaker-interrupting time. If
this interruption does not occur, breaker-failure re
l aying will initiate the tripping of other breakers.
Fig. 4 shows how this is accomplished.
Unless
something fails either the primary of back-up relays
initiate tripping of the faulted line breaker. Note that
the primary and back-up relays connect to sep arate
sets of current transformers and d-e supplies. This
way a failure in one or the other circuits will not
disable all of the protection.
When the primary protection operates, it energizes
62X; the back-up protection energizes 62Y. contacts
of these two auxiliaries start the breaker-failure
timer 6 2 , through the KC-4 contacts.
If the line
breaker fails to clear the fault , KC-4 contacts remains
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