3.25 Three phase current unbalance protection 51NT
3.25.1 51NT Overview
The current unbalance protection for shunt capacitor banks function 51NT is used to protect the
Double-Y-connected capacitor banks from internal faults. 51NT is suitable for the protection of
internally fused, externally fused and fuse less applications. 51NT can be enabled or disabled and
it starts when the measured unbalance current exceeds the current startup setting. The operation
time characteristics can be selected to be either definite time (DT) or inverse definite minimum
time (IDMT).
3.25.1.1 Function Block
The function block of the protection is as below.