PCM600 V2.

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Application configuration
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Contents

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Workspace layout

MainApplication

Function blocks

Hardware channels

Variables

Connections

Disturbance recorder block

Split window

Inverting signal

MainApplication template

Application configuration

The engineering begins with ACT

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Graphical programming tool

ACT new integrated module in PCM600

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The workspace

Needle Auto-hide

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Execute ACT by right clicking the IED object

Setup a comfortable workspace

Object types window nailed

Auto-Hide Project Explorer and Object Property windows

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Docking

Docking points

Position of window while dragging

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Docking windows

Select and drag windows

For example Output window

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Docking

Window has to be Dockable

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Set window option to Dockable

The output window

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Logs all events in PCM

Some information is only displayed here

Filter quick command ctrl + alt + d

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The function library

Function library under Object Types

Right click in workspace

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This will also open the function library

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MainApplication

Insert MainApp button

Create structural overview of

configuration

Insert MainApplication

Button in toolbar menu

Max 255 apps in IED

Delete and copy

Right click on MainApp tab

Cant delete default MainApp tab

MainApp tabs

Copying MainApps

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Contains hidden logic

With logic is possible

Rearrange MainApp tabs not possible

Renaming MainApplication

Renaming is done in Object Properties

Maximum number of characters 50

No special characters are allowed

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Pages

Each MainApp can have several

pages

Insert page

Right clicking in work area

Max number of pages 255

Deletion

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Right clicking in work area

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Tree view
Save button

The MainApps shown in tree view

Saving configuration

Selected tree node will activate work area tab

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The grid view

Grid view button

Enable grid view

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Toolbar

For snapping

Grid width fixed

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Inserting function blocks

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Drag and drop from Object Types

Parameterization when
instantiated

User define name (optional)

Cycle time

Exec order and Instance number

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Function block option

At bottom of function block

It is good to have this information

displayed

Enable display information

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Instance data is displayed

Tools/Options top menu

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User defined name Function blocks

Can be set for all function blocks

Blue text color indicates user defined

names

User defined names will be displayed

in other tools

Maximum number of characters 13

No special characters should be used

How to set User Defined Name

Select function block and right click

Select Set User Defined Name

Revert to default name

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Delete text

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User defined name Signal inputs

Can be set for Analog pre-processing

and Disturbance recorder

Blue text color indicates user defined

names

User defined names will be displayed in

other tools

Maximum number of characters 13

No special characters should be used

How to set User defined name two

alternatives

Select function block and right click

Edit name in Manage Signal Dialog

Component expands downwards

Revert to default name

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Delete text

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Alternative option of setting user defined name

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Hoover over connection point until mouse pointer

transforms to a hand

Right click and select Set User Defined

Edit name in dialog

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Analog hardware channel allocation

Map hardware I/O directly in Application

configuration

Hardware components under Hardware

I/O

Analog hardware components

Connects to Analog Pre-processing blocks

There will be a direct relation to SMT

Hardware Channel Allocation dialog

Select Hardware Module

Select Hardware Channel

User defined name is optional

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Will be shown in SMT

Unassigned Hardware channel

Component will be connected

With undefined hardware channel

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Reallocate HW channel

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Change hardware module and channel

Select HW channel right click

Select Reallocate

Give new information

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Binary hardware channel

The Binary I/O channels

Binary Inputs

HW Module

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HW
Channel

COM and BIO HW module

Binary Outputs

User defined name

Connects to all Boolean types

PSM and BIO HW module

HW component names

First part HW Module

Last part HW Channel

Blue text user defined name

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Aligning

Shape up

Select components to align

Align functions

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Left click and drag with

mouse

Under Format in top menu

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Create and connect new variables

Create and connect new variable

Place mouse pointer over

connection point

Mouse transformation to hand

Right click

Select Connect/Variable/New

Rename variables

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In Object Properties

Copy/Paste variables

Outputs are renamed

Inputs keeps the same name

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How to make connections

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Place mouse pointer over connection

Mouse transformation to hand

Push down and hold left mouse button

Drag and release over second

connection point

Unconnected inputs

Inputs can be unconnected

Uses default value

Tooltip function block I/O

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I/O tooltip

Displays description

Displays default value

Hover mouse pointer over connection point

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Create new unconnected variables

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Right click in work sheet

Select Insert Variable input/output

Can not connect directly between variables

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Connect variable and hardware channels

Connection possibility

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Analog Input to Variable Output

Binary Input to Variable Output

Binary Output to Variable Input

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Variable list

All variables are gathered in a

list

Open Variable List

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Toolbar menu

Add variables in list

Future use!

Press Add

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Variable shows up at end of list

Rename variable

Double click variable

Field becomes editable

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Edit variables in list

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Edit variable name

Double click variable

Field becomes editable

Press enter key to finalize

Mouse click beside to finalize

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Locate variables from list

Locate variable

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Jump to variable in work sheet

Select variable in list

Press Locate

Connect an existing variable to output

Right click over connection point

Select Connect/Variable/Existing

Select suitable variable in list

List displays free unused variables

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Connect an existing variable to input

Right click over connection point

Select Connect/Variable/Existing

List displays

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Variables of same type as connection

input

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Partners

The variable has a partner

Rename variable

Delete output variable

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Partner will be renamed

All Partners will be deleted

Go to partner

Select and right click variable

Menu displays all partners

Select and jump to partner

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Function block color code

White

Yellow

Green

Three different colors

White unconnected

Yellow partly connected

Green fully connected

OK to write configuration to IED

Red triangle on input

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Connection status

Must be connected

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Manage signals

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Hide or show signals in ACT

Right click on function block

Select Manage Signal

Check or Uncheck from dialog

Connected signals are grayed can

not be hidden

Analog disturbance recorder block

Recording of analog data

Instance 1 3 records data from

Pre-processing block

Summation blocks

Instance 4 records data from

Measuring functions (CVMMXU)

Transformer Differential protection

Rename inputs

Right click on connection point to set

user name

Will resize the block

Input name shows up in PST

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After write to IED

Binary disturbance recorder block

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Records binary data

There are 6 instances

Internal binary signals can be

connected

External binary signals can be

connected

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Split window
Split window button

Cross connections

Split window button sits in toolbar menu

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Split window

Only allowed to drag from output to input

Variables

Created if not already existing

The connection line

Not visible in second window

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Connect function block signal

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Alternative way of making

connections

Select an input or output

Right click

Function Block Signal

Browse a suitable signal to

connect

Auto routing connections

Connection lines

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Placed in best possible way

Rerouted if function block moved

Auto routing can not be disabled

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Replace function blocks

Select function block to replace

Right click

Select Replace function block

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Dialog with function list

Select function block

Retain connection

Define function block instance

Connect the loose ends to

connection point

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Copy/Paste MainApplication

Copy MainApplication

Select MainApplication tab

Right click on tab

Paste MainApplication

Right click in MainApplications area

Select Paste

Reallocation of function instances and

hardware output channels

Automatically assign new instance

data

Manually assign new instance data

Exhausted functions will be removed

Reallocation of hardware output

channel

Manage Hardware Channels and

Variables

Input hardware channels

Retain (checkbox)

Reallocate

Input variables

Retain (checkbox)

Rename

Output variables

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Will be renamed

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Inverting signals

Invert binary signals on function blocks

Select function block and right click

Select Manage Signals

Manage Signal dialog

Double click cell to invert signal

Only connected signals can be inverted

Inverted inputs shown with a ring

INVERTER-GATE

One instance will exhausted

Automatic check of execution order

No inverting if wrong

Warning will be issued

Uninvert Signals

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Inputs and Outputs

Manage Signals dialog

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Insert Text

Button sits in toolbar menu

First click button

Click in workspace

Enter text

Editing text

Click on text

Deletion

Select text

Press delete on keyboard

Copy and paste text

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Finalize by clicking beside

Not possible

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MainApplication template

Save MainApplication

Select MainApplication

Top menu File

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Save MainApplication

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Save Template
MainApplication template

Template Manager

Template Name

Description

Both fields had to be filled

Save custom location

Uncheck the checkbox

Browse path

Press Save

The template file extension

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.pcmm file

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MainApplication template

Template Manager

Insert MainApplication Template

Select adequate template

Uncheck checkbox

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Insert from custom location

Browse template

Insert

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Insert Template
MainApplication template

The template is appended

If functions already exists

Exec order and instance number

Automatically changed

Manually changed

Function removed

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From inserted template if exhausted

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Insert Template
MainApplication template

The template is appended

If functions already exists

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Exec order and instance number

Automatically changed

Manually changed

Function removed

From inserted template

If exhausted

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Export Template
MainApplication template

Moving templates

ACT Template Manager

Select templates

Enter export path

Enter file name

File extension

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From one PC to another

.xte file

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Import Template
MainApplication template

Import Templates

ACT Template Manager

Select .xte file

Location

Custom

Default (PCMDatabases)

Mix the types

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Placed in same folder

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Validation

Check configuration

Button in Toolbar menu

Errors and warnings displayed

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Errors and warnings

Output window

Tracking of errors and warnings

Double click on message

Leap is made to source of error

Time for ACT exercise!

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