IEC 60255-1:2022 specifies common rules and requirements applicable to measuring relays and protection equipment, including any combination of equipment to form a distributed protection scheme for power system protection such as control, monitoring and process interface equipment . IEC 60255-1:2022 specifies common rules and requirements applicable to measuring relays and protection equipment, including any combination of equipment to form a distributed protection scheme for power system protection such as control, monitoring and process interface equipment . Action time, as an important indicator to measure the response speed of relay protection devices, reflects the duration from the input of fault signals to the output of actions of the protection devices. Accurately measuring the action time is a crucial step to ensure the reliability and. Abnormalities are detected of the protection relay with the help of the following general tests: This basic test determines the time that the relay takes to respond when detecting these faults. For example, unselective protection operation during a medium voltage network fault will cause an outage for an unnecessarily large number of consumers. The new protection relay functional standards are. Protective Relays - Technical Seminar Nov 2016 - Copyright: IEEE 2 Abstract: Protective relays and devices have been developed over 100 years ago to provide “lastline”of defense for the electrical systems. They are intended to quickly identify a fault and isolate it so the balance of the system.