SmartDuty™

SmartDuty™ is the world's first expert system for the verification of breaker, switch, and fuse duties. SmartDuty™ applies the appropriate ANSI-standard short circuit calculation to each device, then compares the calculated currents with the rated duties. Underrated devices and devices within a user-defined threshold are highlighted on the one-line showing the percentage overduty next to each device. Devices within tolerance are not highlighted.

SmartDuty™ calculates the maximum current through the line side and load side of each device for comparison. This eliminates the costly and time consuming problem of standard bus faults not properly accounting for branch contributions.

To use SmartDuty™, click Equipment Duty (toolbar menu: View > Equipment Duty). Apply a fault to one or more buses, and the results appear next to each underrated device.

Figure 1: SmartDuty™ One-line Results

Note: The ability to automatically check equipment duties during analysis is only available if you have purchased the SmartDuty™ option to EasyPower.

High voltage breakers show two results. The top result is the ANSI momentary duty, and the bottom is the interrupting duty. A negative number indicates that the device is under duty in that area. A positive number indicates that the device is over duty. Notice in the example that the top breaker is highlighted even though both duties are negative. This is because the interrupting duty (-9%) is within the user-defined threshold tolerance of 10 percent. Although the breaker is actually 9 percent under duty, a warning is still issued because the tolerance is set at 10 percent. The threshold tolerance provides a warning level indication. The tolerance value can be set in the Short Circuit Options dialog box on the Control tab. To open this dialog box, click Short Circuit > SC Options (toolbar menu: Tools > Short Circuit Options).

Low voltage breakers and high and low voltage fuses are compared directly with ANSI momentary duties. High voltage switches technically have two ratings: momentary withstand, and close & latch. Both ratings are compared directly with ANSI momentary (1/2 Cycle) results.

You can output detailed text reports describing each device, its ratings, and the calculated currents by selecting the Equipment Duty box on the Text Output tab of the Short Circuit Options dialog box. To open this dialog box, click Short Circuit > SC Options (toolbar menu: Tools > Short Circuit Options).

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