MiCOM S1 support software

MiCOM™ S1 is a software program which provides interfaces between the user and devices that
use the Courier communications language1

The following communication The MiCOM S1 software is • Printing of settings

capabilities are supported by
MiCOM S1.
• Communication with any device
supporting Courier directly over
an RS232 port using the
IEC␣ 60870.FT1.2 frame format.
• Communication with any Courier
device over a remote connection
via a modem connected to the
RS232 port on the PC.
• Communication with any Courier
device via a KITZ connected to
an RS232 port of the PC.
Each application in MiCOM S1
runs under the Windows 95/NT
look and feel. Basic and context
sensitive helps are offered via the
standard Windows help engines.
provided on CD ROM. Separate
update disks will be provided for
adding and/or updating the device
support files to avoid reinstallation
of the core applications.
The six applications forming
MiCOM S1 are as follows:
Setting and records
• ‘Off-line’ settings: Creation,
editing and storage of setting files
without connection to the device.
This allows the creation of setting
files in an office environment, thus
enabling the files to be
downloaded to the appropriate
devices at a later stage.
• Retrieve, create, edit and send
setting files.
• Copy to clipboard (for transfer to
other applications such as MS
Word).
• Change active setting groups and
set the date and time on a
device.
• Extraction of fault and event
records.
• Extraction of disturbance records
and automatic storage on disk
into COMTRADE format.
• Circuit breaker control via relay.
• Client/server approach: ‘On-line’
view to represent the device
database; ‘Off-line’ view to
represent the PC.

1 Some functions or applications (eg. Programmable scheme logic editor and menu text editor)

described in this document are not applicable to existing Courier devices and will not be
applicable to some MiCOM devices. Please contact us for more details.
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 This philosophy of operation is in
line with the modern Windows
NT based packages and
reinforces the ease of use of the
application.
For instance, once settings have
been changed in a setting file
(ie. from the ‘off-line’ view) and
assuming that connection has
been previously established, the
new file can be simply dragged
and dropped onto the ‘on-line’
(device) view in order to
download it into the device.
Programmable scheme logic
editor
• Send, retrieve and edit graphical
scheme logic diagrams.
• Full graphical environment with
automatic gate resizing and
connection routing.
• Elements are selected from
palettes and can be placed in
any free area within the graphic
view.
• AND, OR and MAJORITY gates.
• INPUT elements:
– opto-inputs
– internal logic
– trigger
– feedback loop
• OUTPUT elements:
– output contacts
– LEDs
– feedback loop
• Gate input and output
INVERSION.
• User settable pick-up, drop-off,
pulse, dwell or latch TIMERS.
• Display of interconnection (ie.
click on a gate, link, input or
output element and everything
connected to that gate, link, input
or output element is highlighted
and listed in a separate textual
list).
• Printing of scheme logic.
• Pan and zoom.
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• Diagram copy to clipboard
(for transfer to other applications
such as MS Word).
• Example:
Monitoring
• Retrieve measurement data from a
device.
• Retrieve test and commissioning
data from a device.
• User-defined intervals for data
polling.
• Viewing using digital values or
simulating analogue meters.
Menu text editor
• Customisation of device menu text.
The default menu text files can be
changed to provide ‘non-standard’
language (the standard languages
offered by default are English,
French, German and Spanish) or
specific terminology within the
relay.
• Create or edit menu texts.
• Printing of menu texts.
• Cut and copy to clipboard and
paste from clipboard.
• Send modified or new menu texts
to the relay.
Disturbance record analysis
• Read COMTRADE disturbance
records obtained by the settings
and records application or by any
other means.
• Analysis of the system waveforms:
– user configurable viewing of
analogue and digital signals
(selectable views, signals,
colours, time base, zooming).
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– user selectable printouts
– horizontal and vertical cursors
– amplitude and peak
measurements
– harmonic and power
calculations
– vector diagrams (phase
quantities and symmetrical
components)
– impedance characteristic
plotting
– fault location
Disturbance record archiving
• Automatic archiving of
disturbance records.
• Filtering and sorting using date
and time.
• Ability to load a specified file into
the disturbance record analysis
application directly from the
disturbance record archiving
application.
Options
MiCOM S1 is available in the
following packages:
• Basic (settings and records,
programmable scheme logic
editor, monitoring).
• Basic + disturbance record
analysis.
• Basic + disturbance record
analysis + disturbance record
archiving.
• Option menu text editor (can be
added to any of the three above
packages; requires a specific
parallel communication link to the
relay).
• Demonstration (all of the above
packages, fully functional for 30
days).
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