ACSELERATOR QuickSet ®
SEL-5030 Software Overview
Copyright © SEL 2010
What Is ACSELERATOR QuickSet
Software? (1)
Settings database with settings templates
Supports selected SEL relays
Relay settings rules and interdependencies
Settings are relay part number and firmware
specific
What Is ACSELERATOR QuickSet
Software? (2)
Send or read settings from relays
Human-machine interface (HMI)
Testing and commissioning aid
View phasors, targets, send controls
Built-in event analysis
Download Program
Launch Program
Configure Communications
Select Direct to
COM1
Factory default baud
rate is 2400
Check Connection With Terminal
Press <Enter> and Observe Relay Prompt
Log Terminal Window to File
Activate to Capture All Terminal Activity to File
Log file is a text (.txt) file
Run HMI
HMI – Device Overview
Observe Some Metering and Target Data
Double-Click User-Defined Target
Button to Define Color
Double-Click User-Defined Target Name
to Specify New Item
Phasors During Commissioning Tests
HMI – Min / Max Metering
View Values
HMI – Targets
View All Relay Element Status
HMI – Control Window
Test and Observe Controls
Check Automation Programming by
Toggling Control Bits
Edit Relay Settings
Select Relay Model and Z Number
What Is a Relay Z Number?
Also called setting version number (SVN)
Found in the relay firmware identification
string (FID)
First three digits following a Z in FID
Three-digit number increments when
firmware version affects settings
Rules-based setting template used must
match actual relay
How Do I Find the Relay Z Number?
Front-panel {STATUS} pushbutton
Issue STATUS command to relay
Appendix A of SEL instruction manual (IM)
IMs available at www.selinc.com
Appendix A details changes made in each relay
and IM version
Latest version of relay shown
Settings – Tip!
If Z number is not known or incorrectly selected
during settings creation, use Convert Utility to
make necessary change.
Settings – Part Number
Specify relay part number as closely as possible
If not available from ordering info, can be found on
“silver sticker” on right-rear of relay
Rules-based software needs to know if relay has
extra I/O, DNP, etc.
Edit Relay Settings via Settings “Tree”
Settings Tree
Click “+” sign to expand tree
Category headings sometimes contain
settings (e.g., SET 1, line current differential
settings)
For help press <F1> or Help at menu
Settings Example
Settings – Interdependencies (1)
E50P is set to 5
Five phase
instantaneous
overcurrent
element settings
are displayed –
50P1P, 50P2P,
… 50P5P
Settings – Interdependencies (2)
E50P is changed
to 1
Press <Enter> or
<Tab>
Only one element
remains; others
are “grayed out”
Settings – Rules (1)
Setting value
entered that
violated relay
settings rules
Offending value
indicated in red;
error message
displayed at
bottom of screen
Settings – Rules (2)
Invalid Relay Word
bit or logical
expression entered
that violated relay
settings rules
Offending equation
indicated in red;
error message
displayed at
bottom of screen
Event Analysis
Event Analysis – Read History
Event Analysis – Select Event
Select desired event Select Event Length
Select Event Type Press Get Event
Event Analysis – Name and Save
Event File
.
Event Analysis
Event Analysis – Oscillography
Event Analysis – View Menu
Summary Data – basic event details
Graph – sinusoidal wave and digital display
Graph Preferences – change displayed
digital and analog quantities
Phasors – display analog and sequence info
in phasor format
Event Analysis – View Menu
Harmonic Analysis – displays harmonic
content of selected analog quantity
Event Report Text – displays standard event
report tabular format; not a “selectable”
choice
Settings – displays setting section of relay’s
event report
Data Management – Active Database
Select Active Database
Will typically be primary storage
location for all settings developed with
ACSELERATOR QuickSet Software
Default is Relay.rdb
Data Management – Database Manager
Add informative
description to
database or relay
Rename, copy, or
delete settings
files
Do not use relay
text files Import
or Export buttons
as file transfer
methods
Data Management – Database Manager
Two methods to
create new
database:
Use Create New
Database button
Open one that does
not exist –
ACSELERATOR
QuickSet Software
prompts to create
Data Management – Database Manager
Data Management – Database Manager
Create a “new” database to facilitate data
export
Use Copy / Move utility of database
manager to move settings for data export
Database can contain settings from more
than one type of relay
Develop management scheme early in
settings development
Two Help Functions Available
Program Functions Help
Settings
Help
Example Settings Report
File – Print
Available Resources for
Additional Information
Help function within ACSELERATOR QuickSet
Software
AG2002-03: Serial Communications Between PCs
and SEL Microprocessor-Based Products
AG2003-03: Sharing ACSELERATOR SEL‑5030
Software Relay Settings Files
AG2000-13: Installing, Using, and Troubleshooting
SEL-5010 Relay Assistant Version 2.x Relay
Communications and Database
