Registration of Protection types must be performed on Power Configuration's Protections tab. Some Protections are already provided by Elipse Power by default, such as Overcurrent Protection, Undervoltage Protection, etc. In addition to the ones already existing, users can also create new Protections. The types of Protections can be configured at run time in the object returned by the ProtectionTypes property of the Power Configuration object. The next figure displays the tab to create and edit Protection standards.
Protections tab
This tab's toolbar contains the options Add 
, to create a new type of Protection, Remove 
, to remove a user-defined Protection type, and Sort 
, which sorts the visualization of the list of Protection types.
The columns for each Protection standard are presented on the next table.
Columns to edit Protection standards
Column |
Description |
|---|---|
Name |
Standard's name. This can only be edited on user-created standards, which cannot have the reserved character "*" as its prefix. Corresponds to the Name property of the Protection Type object |
Acronym |
A free text configuring an acronym for this Protection type. This property can be changed even for Protections automatically provided by Elipse Power. Corresponds to the Acronym property of the Protection Type object |
Description |
Description for this Protection type. This text can be used to describe this Protection on a Display, to identify an alarm message, or any other desired view. Corresponds to the Caption property of the Protection Type object |
Sorting |
An integer used to sort, in a way other than alphabetically, the Protection types. This number is useful if Protections must be displayed on a table, but not sorted out alphabetically. This sorting mode is used if PowerExplorer's SortMode property is configured to 1 - smTypeSorting. Corresponds to the Order property of the Protection Type object |
NOTE |
Standard Protection types can only have their Acronym, Description, and Sorting columns changed. |