Short Circuitcurrentratingsandacdrives 121101071008 Phpapp02 PDF

Short Circuit Current Ratings and AC Drives
Ivan Spronk, Product Marketing AC Drives

Schneider Electric
Industry NOW Express
Goal of this session
Understand
Importance of proper SCCRs
Hot button points and confusion about SCCRs
Be able to articulate the various aspects of SCCRs
Understand
The information Schneider Electric provides
The information most competitors provide
Be able to position yourself to help your customers
Know what documents to use to find SCCR for the Altivar product line
Schneider Electric - Industry Business Short Circuit Current Ratings and AC Drives 2012 2
Why are these ratings important?
Why are these ratings important to you?
Applying SCCRs properly can:
Enhance personnel safety
Limit equipment damage
Reduce lost production time
Provide the most cost effective solution
Hot Buttons & Points of Confusion
Recent changes to NEC and UL508
Control panels are now required to have a SCCR
Increased industry attention to SCCRs
UL 508C: test standard for AC Drives

Lacks specific test method for short circuit testing
Leads to different interpretations by manufacturers
Not all manufacturers publish the same info
Allows for a higher must be better mentality
Who is impacted the most?

Those not performing tests on each design:
System integrators
Panel builders
OEMs
Aspects of SCCRs
Circuit breakers and fuses
Designed to operate at some level of short circuit current
Designed to interrupt current
Common values: 1k, 5k, 10k, 22k, 42k, 65k 100k
These are overcurrent protective devices (OCPD)
Has an AIR rating: ampere interrupting rating
Other electric equipment panels and products

UL requirement:
Have a maximum short circuit current rating
Designed to operate at some level of short circuit current
Common values: 1k, 5k, 10k, 22k, 42k, 65k 100k
Rating can be no higher than lowest rated product
Equipment and panel need to safely withstand the level
Aspects of SCCRs and AC Drives
Input section
Available short circuit current has a thermal impact
True for any device converting AC power to DC power
Internal section
Internal of an AC Drive has many current paths
AC Drives should not be tested like starters
Output section
Have IGBTs that turn off at high current level
Many suppliers provide SCCRs based on testing the output
Aspects of SCCRs and AC Drives: Schneider
Electric Position
Input section
Customers need to know the level of available short circuit
current the drive was designed to handle
Internal section
Short circuit testing should test the most vulnerable part
Output section
A SCCR should not be based on the output
Information provided by Schneider Electric: Input Section
Input Section:
The input current increases as AFC increases
AFC = amount of available fault or short circuit current
True for any devise converting power
The input AFC rating reflects:

Available short-circuit current at input terminals that the
drive was designed to operate both thermally and
electrically
How much effect do various levels have?

See Data Bulletin 8800DB0801 for more info
Schneider Electric designs to UL recommended levels
Schneider Electric provides this input AFC rating

If the available prospective short circuit current exceeds
the level the drive was designed for, use externally
mounted impedance to reduce level
Line reactors are commonly used
DC chokes
Information provided by Schneider Electric: Internal Section
Internal Section:
AC Drives contain many power components
Diodes
Capacitors
IGBTs
There are multiple paths for a short circuit
Internal components may short across the power circuit.
To obtain a SCCR, Schneider Electric performs

A breakdown of components test
Testing the most vulnerable parts
At the marked SCCR value
Why do other manufacturers only test and provide a

SCCR based on shorting the out put of the drive?
Information provided by Schneider Electric: Internal Section
Electric Company /
Distribution Panel Why do other manufacturers only test and provide a SCCR
based on shorting the output of the drive?
Left over from the legacy test method for a motor starter
For a starter or contactor

Shorting the output tests this entire device
Many drive manufactures are currently providing a SCCR

based on only testing by shorting the output
Schneider Electric has taken an industry leadership position
Providing SCCR ratings based on internal breakdown tests
Leading UL 508C to mandate an internal breakdown tests
Load
Information provided by Schneider Electric
Internal Section:
Schneider Electric SCCR parameters validated during
Breakdown of Components testing
Contain a breakdown within its enclosure based on the Available
Fault Current (AFC) and its listed Overcurrent Protective Device
(OCPD)
Should not create shock, flame, fire or expulsion hazard outside the
enclosure
Schneider Electric provides a rating for a wall mounted AC Drive
AC drive with optional conduit entrance
Housing of the unit must contain the hazard
Schneider Electric provides a rating for an AC drive mounted in

an enclosure
Enclosure around the drive must contain the hazard
See ANNEX document
Information provided by Schneider Electric: Output Section
Output Section:
Todays IGBT technology used by most manufactures
Will turn off well before fault current builds to dangerous levels
Interrupting 100kA on the output is no issue
Drive input does not see fault current
Available input short-circuit current and

output interruption rating are unrelated
Schneider Electric provides this information only to show our

product can obtain the same rating on the output
Testing the output does not help construct a robust solution
Aspects of SCCRs and AC Drives: our position
Input section
Customers need to know the level of available short circuit
current the drive was designed to handle
Internal section
Short circuit testing should test the most vulnerable part
Output section
A SCCR should not be based on the output
What information do competitors provide?
ABB provides:
Input currents with and without line reactors with no explanation
Specifying expensive Class T fuses only
No circuit breaker ratings
Schneider Electric provides:

Multiple ratings with circuit breakers and GV2
Ratings with Class J fuses
25-50% less expensive than Class T fuses
What information do competitors provide?
ABB
Claiming maximum 200k SCCR rating
Clearing relying on testing only the output of the drive
Claiming actual rating is based on OCPD
Providing no information about thermal impact of various

levels of available fault current
Schneider Electric provides information about:

Thermal impact of various levels of available fault current
Multiple ratings with circuit breakers and GV2
Ratings with Class J fuses
What can you do with this information?
Assist customers to build equipment that can
Enhance personnel safety with ratings on product match
installation
Limit equipment damage

Properly rated to contain a short circuit
Reduce lost production time

Properly rated to contain a short circuit
Provide the most cost effective solution

Install just what is needed
Control panel cost is proportional to specified SCCR
Schneider Electric is leading the industry in this effort by

challenging the information being supplied by others
Resources
Know which Codes & Standards apply to your customers equipment
NEC2011 Article 409.110 and 430.8

Requires that industrial control panels be marked with (SCCR)
Requires AC Drives be rated with a SCCR
UL508A points to UL508C for power conversion controllers

i.e. AC & DC power converters or drive controllers
UL 1995
Standard for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment
UL508C
Provides a method of establishing SCCR for Drives
Provides a SCC rating that satisfies NEC requirements.
Issues being worked with UL508C

The standard lags technology changes.
As such the test methods have room for interpretation.
Most are publishing only an output short circuit rating
Resources
SCCR ratings for each Altivar product line
Each product line has a document listing SCCRs
The Effects of Available Short Circuit Current on AC Drives

Data Bulletin 8800DB0801
Variable Frequency Drives and Short Circuit Current Ratings

Data Bulletin 8800DB1203 coming soon
Control Panel Technical Guide

How to ensure trouble free approval of your UL complaint
control panels
CPTG005_EN
Summary
Short-circuit ratings allow to:
Have safer installations
Minimize equipment damage
Improve up-time in the most cost effective

way
A 5HP AC drive.
40A
5 kA Isc, without Line Reactor, Ipeak=27.2
20A
0A
-20A
-40A
500ms 510ms 520ms 530ms 540ms 550ms 560ms 570ms 580ms 590ms 600ms
I(L1) RMS(I(R8)) RMS(I(L1))
Time
A 5HP AC drive.
60A
40A
20A
-0A
-20A
-40A
-60A
Time
A 5HP AC drive.
80A
40A
0A
-40A
-80A
Time
Altivar 61 Annex
ABB ACS355 specifying expensive Class T fuses
ABB ACH550 UH
ABB ACH850
now providing Input current
with and without line choke
Class T fuses
AB PowerFlex 40P
actual SCCR = AIC of
installed fuse / circuit
breaker
claiming 100k SCCR
AB PowerFlex 700 actual SCCR = AIC of installed
fuse / circuit breaker
claiming 200k SCCR
Internal Break Down of Components Tests
Typical available fault current at various points
and appropriate SCCR rating
Codes and Standards: UL508C says:
47 Short Circuit Test High Fault Currents
47.1 When any models within a drive series are intended to be rated with high fault current
values in excess of the standard current values required by Table 45.1, then one representative
model from those intended to be rated with high fault current values shall be used for testing.
This representative model shall be subjected to only one high fault current short circuit test.
Exception: A drive series complies with the High Fault Current Short Circuit Test in this section
without additional testing when:
a) The drive series uses solid state short circuit protection circuitry for compliance
with the Short Circuit Test, Section 45; and
b) The solid state short circuit protection circuitry is used in accordance with
45.1.3.
Most Drives Manufactures take this exception!
Schneider Electric does NOT
Schneider Electric conducts short circuit testing at the marked short circuit current rating
UL 508 C: Minimum Short Circuit Test Values
Thank You!

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Short Circuit Current Ratings and AC Drives

Ivan Spronk, Product Marketing AC Drives

Importance of proper SCCRs

Hot button points and confusion about SCCRs

Be able to articulate the various aspects of SCCRs

The information Schneider Electric provides

The information most competitors provide

Be able to position yourself to help your customers

Enhance personnel safety

Limit equipment damage

Reduce lost production time

Provide the most cost effective solution

UL 508C: test standard for AC Drives

Who is impacted the most?

Other electric equipment panels and products

The input AFC rating reflects:

How much effect do various levels have?

Schneider Electric designs to UL recommended levels

Schneider Electric provides this input AFC rating

There are multiple paths for a short circuit

Internal components may short across the power circuit.

To obtain a SCCR, Schneider Electric performs

Why do other manufacturers only test and provide a

For a starter or contactor

Many drive manufactures are currently providing a SCCR

Schneider Electric provides a rating for an AC drive mounted in

See ANNEX document

Available input short-circuit current and

Schneider Electric provides this information only to show our

Testing the output does not help construct a robust solution

Specifying expensive Class T fuses only

No circuit breaker ratings

Schneider Electric provides:

Ratings with Class J fuses

25-50% less expensive than Class T fuses

Claiming actual rating is based on OCPD

Providing no information about thermal impact of various

Schneider Electric provides information about:

Limit equipment damage

Reduce lost production time

Provide the most cost effective solution

Schneider Electric is leading the industry in this effort by

NEC2011 Article 409.110 and 430.8

UL508A points to UL508C for power conversion controllers

Issues being worked with UL508C

The Effects of Available Short Circuit Current on AC Drives

Variable Frequency Drives and Short Circuit Current Ratings

Control Panel Technical Guide

Have safer installations

Minimize equipment damage

Improve up-time in the most cost effective

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