15. Self-supervision
The relay’s built-in self-supervision system continu-
ously monitors the state of the relay hardware and 
the operation of the relay software. Any fault or 
malfunction detected is used for alerting the oper-
ator. A permanent relay fault blocks the protection 
functions to prevent incorrect operation.
16. Fuse failure supervision
Depending on the chosen standard configuration, 
the relay includes fuse failure supervision function-
ality. The fuse failure supervision detects failures 
between the voltage measurement circuit and the 
relay. The failures are detected either by the nega-
tive sequence-based algorithm or by the delta volt-
age and delta current algorithm. Upon the detec-
tion of a failure, the fuse failure supervision 
function activates an alarm and blocks voltage-de-
pendent protection functions from unintended
operation.
17. Current circuit supervision
Depending on the chosen standard configuration, 
the relay includes current circuit supervision. Cur-
rent circuit supervision is used for detecting faults 
in the current transformer secondary circuits. On 
detecting of a fault the current circuit supervision
function activates an alarm LED and blocks certain 
protection functions to avoid unintended opera-
tion. The current circuit supervision function calcu-
lates the sum of the phase currents from the pro-
tection cores and compares the sum with the
measured single reference current from a core bal-
ance current transformer or from separate cores in 
the phase current transformers.
18. Access control
To protect the relay from unauthorized access and 
to maintain information integrity, the relay is pro-
vided with a four-level, rolebased authentication 
system with administrator-programmable individ-
ual passwords for the viewer, operator, engineer 
and administrator levels. The access control applies 
to the local HMI, the Web HMI and PCM600.
19. Inputs and outputs
Depending on the standard configuration selected, 
the relay is equipped with three phase-current in-
puts and one residualcurrent input for non-direc-
tional earth-fault protection, or three phase-cur-
rent inputs, one residual-current input and one 
residual voltage input for directional earth-fault 
protection or three phase-current inputs, one re-
sidual-current input, three phase-voltage inputs 
and one residual voltage input for directional 
earth-fault protection and directional overcurrent 
protection. Standard configuration L includes one 
three sensor inputs for the direct connection of 
three combi-sensors with RJ-45 connectors. As an 
alternative to combi-sensors, separate current and 
voltage sensors can be utilized using adapters. Fur-
thermore, the adapters also enable the use of sen-
sors with Twin-BNC connectors.
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tional residual-current inputs are available, that is, 
in applications requiring sensitive earth-fault pro-
tection and featuring core-balance current trans-
formers. The three phase-voltage inputs and the 
residual-voltage input covers the rated voltages 
60...210 V. Both phase-to-phase voltages and 
phase-to-earth voltages can be connected.
The phase-current input 1 A or 5 A, the residual-cur-
rent input 1 A or 5 A, alternatively 0.2 A or 1 A, and 
the rated voltage of the residual voltage input are 
selected in the relay software. In addition, the bi-
nary input thresholds 16…176 V DC are selected by 
adjusting the relay’s parameter settings.
All binary inputs and outputs contacts are freely 
configurable with the signal matrix or application 
configuration functionality of PCM600.
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nal diagrams for more information about the in-
puts and outputs.
Optionally, a binary input and output module can 
be selected. It has three high speed binary outputs 
(HSO) and it decreases the total operate time with 
typically 4...6 ms compared to the normal power 
outputs.
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