Digital Protection End-to-End Commissioning Plan

A hold-point plan for proving the complete sensor-to-trip chain in conventional and IEC 61850 switchgear schemes.

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Use this plan to define ownership and evidence across the complete protection chain. Device-level tests are inputs; the final acceptance criterion is correct system behaviour.

Required records

  • Approved protection philosophy, trip matrix and single-line diagram.
  • CT/VT or LPIT ratios, polarity and terminal references.
  • SCD/CID/IID files, settings exports, firmware inventory and network architecture.
  • DC schematics, breaker mechanism data and interlocking cause-and-effect.

Hold point A — measurement chain

  • Verify primary polarity, phase identity, ratio and grounding.
  • Confirm sampled-value dataset, scaling, quality flags and phase mapping.
  • Prove loss-of-signal and invalid-quality responses.

Hold point B — communications and time

  • Verify GOOSE publisher/subscriber references, VLAN and supervision.
  • Test network redundancy transitions and alarm behaviour.
  • Record time source, profile, lock state and loss-of-sync response.

Hold point C — IED logic and outputs

  • Inject representative internal and external faults.
  • Verify pickup, direction, zone selection, blocking and breaker failure.
  • Trace every trip from logical node to physical or GOOSE output.

Hold point D — trip circuit and breaker

  • Prove trip-coil continuity, trip-circuit supervision and DC polarity.
  • Measure relay output, coil energisation, auxiliary-contact change and main-contact response separately.
  • Verify local/remote authority and every maintenance isolation position.

Close-out

Store signed results with settings hashes, SCL revision, firmware, test connections and deviations. Any late design or configuration change must trigger a defined regression-test scope.

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