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“Current-Start, Voltage-Hold”: Making DC Anti-Pumping Circuits Actually Reliable
How ODES UEG/I DC current relays distinguish real coil operation from virtual voltage and transient spikes Why Voltage-Only Logic Is Not Enough in DC Control Circuits In DC trip and close circuits, engineers face three recurring headaches at the same time: High inrush current when a trip or close coil is energized Short-duration DC bus dips and ripple during switching events Long control cables that pick up induced transients and create “virtual voltage” If the supervision

TonyZhang
Jan 86 min read


Is Your Anti-Pumping Circuit Truly Reliable?
Anti-Pumping: A “Must-Have” That Still Goes Wrong in Practice In high-voltage circuit breaker control circuits, anti-pumping (anti-reclose on an active command) is not optional. It is written into relay protection and anti-misoperation guidelines as a hard requirement : Before a breaker has completed one open–close–open sequence, the close coil must not receive another effective close command. Yet in real projects, two recurring issues still appear: Misuse of the breaker o

TonyZhang
Jan 55 min read


The 1.5 km Control Cable That Created an EMC-Enhanced Auxiliary Relay
How one “mystery trip” in a thermal power plant led to a new class of DC control relays. When a Control Box Trips “For No Reason” In 2003, a large thermal power plant ran into a problem no operations team wants to see: the local operation box on a high-voltage bay would trip seemingly at random . No breaker failure, no misoperation recorded—just nuisance trips from the control box, often when nearby bays were being operated. The unit was safe, but the operators were not: ev

TonyZhang
Jan 55 min read


How ODES Engineered Contact-Bounce-Safe CT Test Blocks from One 500 kV Alarm
From a Single 500 kV Alarm to a Deeper Design Question During commissioning on a 500 kV transmission project in 2024, a disturbance recorder captured something protection engineers never ignore: at the exact moment a test block handle was pulled quickly, the CT secondary circuit showed a transient open-circuit condition and raised an alarm. The team did what any good commissioning crew would do: Check wiring Check terminal torque Check device contact resistance The surprise c

TonyZhang
Jan 45 min read
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