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Profile P3 Circuit Breaker Analyzer

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CONTENTS

CAMLIN GROUP
Overview 04

BREAKER
Guardians of the network 06
First trip profiling 08
PROFILE P3 10
P3 key features 12

DATA I N T E R P R E TAT I O N
The “Current Profile” 13
Connected Insights 14
REPLAYPRO 16

Product Options 18

C O N TAC T S 20

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Optimizing Critical
Infrastuctures

With a history stretching back over 30 years, the foundations of the

Camlin business are built on a core belief that innovation is key to
Holistic Asset Digital
driving improvements in the energy industry. We are at the Monitoring Solutions
forefront of key innovations that are changing the face of the
industry – including digital fault recorders; digital circuit breaker Transformer, circuit Advanced analytics
analyzers; advanced protection systems and network automation breakers and providing prescriptive
technologies. Camlin continues this track record of innovation, rotating machines actions on asset health
developing innovative and intelligent monitoring products and
services that help make electricity and rail networks safer, more
efficient, resilient and sustainable.

We believe in leveraging our partners existing platforms and

technology, partnering this with new developments to provide
expert analysis into asset condition, translating diagnostic data into Asset Condition Expert
Assessment Servic es
prescriptive actions. With headquarters in UK, the US and China,
and facilities in 21 cities across 17 countries, we are set up to
Building a full picture Focused seminars and
deliver globally, ultimately our goal is to ensure our customers see of asset health training aimed at driving
real value from monitoring technology. knowledge sharing

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Circuit Breakers:
Guardians of the Network

A key requirement from electricity networks is to provide safe, An aged or poorly maintained circuit breaker may be slow to trip,
efficient and reliable power to customers. leading to serious problems for the network, taking customers
off supply and causing high current faults to ‘cascade’ across the
When faults occur due to weather, equipment failure or accidental network with:
damage, the circuit breaker must quickly disconnect the fault to
protect the network upstream of the circuit breaker and maintain • Widespread loss of supply
supply to the majority of customers.
• Damage to plant
• Potential safety issues
• Financial penalties

Conventional testing requires a circuit breaker to be isolated but

this first trip operation can often temporarily clear any slow
tripping problem.
A Circuit Breaker can
This means that capturing the ‘first trip’ operation is essential to
be considered as the effective circuit breaker condition monitoring.

guardian of the network.

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The importance of
First Trip profiling

Although conventional timing tests control the

operation, the current flowing through the trip coil is
a powerful indicator of the circuit breaker readiness.

Capturing First Trip also provides the true condition of the circuit
breaker. This leads to major benefits:

• Improves circuit breaker performance

• Minimizes damage to plant and personnel
• Enables a condition-based maintenance strategy
• Reduce operational costs
• Can be used on any circuit breaker

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 Analysis of First Trip Profiling
VS Conventional Timing Tests
22%
non-urgent
30% • 82% of the sample were assessed as performing satisfactorily
inspection using conventional timing tests.

• 37% of the sample were assessed as performing satisfactorily

using trip coil profiling testing.
11%
unsatisfactory • 67% of faults on circuit breakers classified as slow tripping lay
within the first stage tripping mechanism.

• Prior to trip coil profiling it was assumed that most defects lay
within the main mechanism and therefore normal maintenance
37% procedures were ineffective.
satisfactory
• For circuit breakers operating within time limits
(<120 msecs), around 50% had defects.

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PROFILE P3
By capturing the vital ‘first trip’, the PROFILE P3 shows how a circuit breaker
would perform in a real-life fault situation and provides a unique insight into the
true condition of circuit breakers at all voltages, pinpointing potential problems
within either the trip coil or circuit breaker main operating mechanism.

This approach to testing helps utility Asset Managers to move from time-based
maintenance towards condition-based maintenance which is more effective and
efficient, based on the true condition of the circuit breaker.

Benefits:

Reduced Circuit Breaker Intuitive visual profiling Avoid costly Extended circuit breaker
maintenance costs regulatory penalties asset life

Drives cost effective Enables rapid onsite Pre-empt problems Quick, simple trending
maintenance strategies for analysis of circuit breaker caused by slow circuit of key circuit breaker
asset managers basedon defects by comparing first breaker trip operation key parameters
condition-based circuit trip or close profile with cuasing supply loss, allows operators to
breaker assesment. subsequent circuit breaker costly network equipment anticipate maintenance
operations.. damage and potential requirements and
penalties due to CI/CML. extended asset life.

The PROFILE P3 offers a cost-effective solution by enabling:

• Fast and simple online test

• Capture vital first trip operation
• Combined relay and circuit breaker test
• Onsite analysis of breaker defects
• Efficiently target critical resources
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80% of defects can
be detected by first
trip profiling.
⁕ Detect if the circuit breaker operating time is outside limits due to
the Trip/Close coil or main mechanism
⁕ The state of ‘health’ of Close and Trip coil mechanisms
⁕ The condition of the DC supply and associated wiring
⁕ The presence of ‘sticky’ or faulty circuit breaker auxiliary contacts
⁕ The Total Trip Time (relay + circuit breaker)

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Key Features

Powerful Total Trip Multi-shot Automated Connected

Onsite Analysis Time Mode Comparison Insights Enabler

The possibility to graph An enhanced version The PROFILE can rearm This function provides This function provides
up to 4 subsequent of the software enables and capture multiple a clear indication of a clear indication of
operations enables quick both the protection relay sequences of trip / the breaker condition the breaker condition
onsite analysis of the and circuit breaker trip close operations. by determining if key by determining if key
current profile. times to be captured. parameters are outside parameters are outside
user-set tolerances. user-set tolerances.

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The “Current Profile”

The study of the trip coil current allows to detect
deviations from the expected behavior, highlighting
major problems in the breaker.
Trip coil current profile is specific to each breaker
model. It depends on electrical and mechanical
characteristics of the control circuit.
The current profile is strictly related to the effort
necessary to the circuit breaker to clear the
overcurrent.
Parameters such as Latch, Buffer and Acon are
automatically identified and can be used to
determine malfunctions, ageing and degradation
of the breaker components.

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Connected Insights

• Connected Insights is a Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service Platform

to provide expert and AIgenerated insights to compliments in-house
Subject Matter Experts.
• Connected Insights is data-driven and hardware agnostic.
• Connected Insights integrates with 3rd party customer IT systems
and provides a Web portal for custom reports.
• Connected Insights provides insights on multiple assets like
transformers, generators, circuit breakers and batteries.

How Connected Insights

Adds Value
Developed from more than 30 years of experience in high voltage
asset condition assessment, Connected Insights delivers actionable
information, translating electric utilities’ diagnostic data, from both Reports are automatically
offline and online results, into prescriptive actions.
generated by AI
Data are translated into valuable information and prescriptive actions by
applying insights from Camlin alongside your own
in-house knowledge and expertise.

Bringing all relevant asset Connecting your data to Knowledge gathered Working together to create
data together into one place the right decisions: Camlin from monitoring increases specific solutions for specific
and freeing up more decision- technical depth augments worker availability in the needs.
making time for your teams. the skillsets of your team. field and reduces time
to complete jobs.
 Transformers Data adaptors /
consolitdation
Generators
ML/AI insights generation
Circuit breakers
SME insights validation
Batteries
Other assets

Data generates value via Sapient Asset reports

Conntected Insights Data visualizations
Actionable insights integrated Insight visualizations
with enterprise systems
Maintenance actions

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REPLAY PRO Key Features

• Efficient storage of PROFILE P3 records
REPLAY PRO software is an integral part of the PROFILE system • Multiple search criteria for record retrieval
enabling efficient profile record storage,retrieval and analysis. • Display and overlay (up to 9) Profile
records for analysis
REPLAY PRO software for PC is a powerful analysis tool that
• Automated analysis function to determine
combines detection of circuit breaker defects with trending of
if key parameters are outside preset
performance against key parameters from profile records
tolerances
imported fromthe system.
• Export records in CSV format for trending
REPLAY PRO can be hosted on a central server, allowing circuit in graph format
breaker profiling data to be shared with other uses across • View AC data during trip and
your organization. close operation

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Product Options

PROFILE IP3 Independent Pole

PROFILE IP3 is designed specifically for circuit breakers
with an independent pole per phase and provides a
unique insight into their true condition.
Capturing the vital ‘first trip’ on all three poles
simultaneously, along with powerful analysis, shows how
the breaker would perform in a real-life fault situation.

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PROFILE P3 Offline Tool

The PROFILE P3 can be used in an offline
mode to measure the main contact times
when the circuit breaker is isolated from the
network.
PROFILE P3 to an Interface Unit which
provides a constant current source from a
24V DC supply across the circuit breaker
main contacts.

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