The electrical quantities that may change under fault conditions include: voltage, current, frequency and phase angle. The circuit is composed of three relays, among which J0 is the basic circuit component, which is controlled by the output of PLC, and its normally open contact controls the on and off of the solenoid valve. Considering that the relay contacts are prone to sticking and the coil short circuit may. Engineering use: Relays are used on feeders, transformers, buses, motors, generators, and transmission lines to protect equipment and improve system reliability. What controls it: Relay performance depends on the protected zone, CT/PT inputs, pickup settings, time delay, breaker clearing time, trip. • The function of protective relaying is to cause the prompt removal from service of an element of a power system when it suffers a short circuit or when it starts to operate in any abnormal manner that might cause damage or otherwise interfere with the effective operation of the rest of the. The protected zone is the part of the network in which faults cause the protection function to operate. Definite time delay means that the protection operate time dose not change or depend on the. This handbook covers the code of practice in protection circuitry including standard lead and device numbers, mode of connections at terminal strips, colour codes in multicore cables, dos and donts in execution. These input devices or instrument transformers provide insulation from the high-power system voltages and reduce the magnitudes to practical secondary levels.