Relion® Protection and Control

RER620IEC 60870-5-101/104 CommunicationProtocol Manual

Document ID: 1MAC306892-MBIssued: 10/31/2011

Revision: BProduct version: 1.1

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Table of contents

Section 1 Introduction............................................................................5This manual..............................................................................................5Intended audience....................................................................................5Product documentation.............................................................................6

Product documentation set..................................................................6Document revision history...................................................................7Related documentation........................................................................8

Symbols and conventions.........................................................................8Safety indication symbols....................................................................8Manual conventions.............................................................................8

Section 2 IEC 60870-5 overview.........................................................11IEC 60870-5 protocol..............................................................................11Transmission..........................................................................................12

Unbalanced transmission..................................................................12Balanced transmission......................................................................12

Basic application functions.....................................................................13Data acquisition.................................................................................13Event acquisition...............................................................................13Interrogation......................................................................................13Clock synchronization........................................................................14Command transmission.....................................................................14Transmission of integrated totals.......................................................15Changes in protocol and link parameters..........................................15Acquisition of transmission delay......................................................15

Section 3 Vendor-specific implementation..........................................17615/620 series implementation...............................................................17

Internal IEC 61850 data modeling.....................................................17Instances...........................................................................................17Selecting between IEC 60870-5-101 and IEC 60870-5-104.............17

Configuring.............................................................................................17Configuring IEC 60870-5-101............................................................18Configuring IEC 60870-5-104............................................................18Troubleshooting.................................................................................19

Event overflow handling..........................................................................19

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Overflow mode...................................................................................19Overflow indication addresses...........................................................19Overflow situation clearing................................................................20

Supported data types..............................................................................20Indications (MSP, MDP)....................................................................20Measurements (MMENA, MMENB, MMENC, MMEND)....................20Control objects (CSC, CDC)..............................................................20Packed protection events (MEPTB, MEPTC)....................................21Integrated totals (MIT).......................................................................21

Addressing scheme................................................................................21Default addresses..............................................................................21Configuring communication options..................................................21

Communication parameters....................................................................22Port....................................................................................................22ClientIP..............................................................................................22End delay...........................................................................................22Device address..................................................................................23ASDU address...................................................................................23Link mode..........................................................................................23COT length........................................................................................23IOA length..........................................................................................24Link address length...........................................................................24ASDU address length........................................................................24Single character response.................................................................24Show bad time...................................................................................25Time format........................................................................................25Event time..........................................................................................25Overflow mode...................................................................................26OvInd IOA..........................................................................................26OvInd NoGI IOA.................................................................................26Event order........................................................................................27Selection time-out..............................................................................27Cyclical period...................................................................................27

Diagnostics.............................................................................................28Status.................................................................................................28Received frames................................................................................28Transmitted frames............................................................................28Physical errors...................................................................................28Link errors..........................................................................................28Transport errors.................................................................................28

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Section 4 IEC 60870-5-101 and IEC 60870-5-104 parameters..........29Parameter list..........................................................................................29Monitored data........................................................................................31

Section 5 Glossary..............................................................................33

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