Ekip Link Module; Description - ABB SACE Emax 2 Series Installation, Operation And Maintenance Instructions

11 - Ekip Link module

Description Ekip Link is a communication accessory module that integrates the circuit-breaker in an internal
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Ethernet network with an ABB proprietary protocol.
IMPORTANT: the module can only be connected to internal Ethernet networks
with a single switchgear or multiple switchgears, to which releases or ABB
Emax 2 accessories are collected. It is responsibility of the installer to make
sure that all the necessary security measures are adopted for all the devices
connected (for example, the necessary access authorizations). The module
cannot be connected to other Ethernet networks (for example, system control
or office networks), or to the Internet.
The module is necessary if you wish to implement these functions:
• Power Controller.
• Zone Selectivity.
• Programmable Logic.
For these functions, the releases of the system tat are involved must be equipped with an Ekip
Link, and for each of these the IP addresses of the Ekip Link modules of the other releases
must be inserted.
With the Power Controller function (see page 151), each release can:
• Acquire the state of the loads remotely and monitor them.
• Play the role of Master, and collect the energy measurements of the releases inserted as
Energy Generators.
• Supply energy measurements to the releases inserted as Master.
The state of the loads can be acquired by checking the state of the inputs of the signalling
modules connected to the releases whose IP address have been inserted, while the loads
can be monitored by programming their outputs. The programming of the outputs cannot
be performed remotely, but only locally on the releases to which the signalling modules are
connected.
Remote acquisition of the state of the loads and monitoring of the loads can also be implemented
with Ekip Signalling 10K modules connected to the network.
With the Zone Selectivity function (see page 93):
• The IP addresses inserted refer to the releases with the role of interlock compared with
respect to the current role.
• For every interlock release inserted, the protections for which selectivity is to be implemented
must be selected.
• These selected protections are added to those wired as L Gext MCR and linst.
• It is possible to insert a mask, that identifies the protections for which the received information
on selectivity is to be retransmitted, regardless of the fact that the release is in alarm.
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