SIGRA 4

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This Software Stands the Test of Every Analysis

SIGRA 4 is the complete analyzing

solution for fault records – and it
has long been the standard for
others.

Why?

Here we go …

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One SIGRA for All Tasks

Evaluate fault records

Configure network data

Localize faults offline

Export data

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One SIGRA for All Numerical Relays

SIGRA 4 accepts every fault record that is in

the internationally standardized format
COMTRADE.

SIPROTEC Relays

Directly or via DIGSI 4

COMTRADE Export COMTRADE Import

Via COMTRADE Export/Import

3rd Party Relays

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Significant and Fast Fault Analysis

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With SIGRA 4 you'll get all the graphical
representations you need for a fast analysis.
SIGRA 4 supplies the following
graphical representations:

▪ Time signals
▪ Circle diagrams

▪ Vector diagrams

▪ Harmonics as bar graphs

Measurement is quick and easy

using two synchronized cursors.

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Time Signals

With the help of time signals, you

check the history of analog values
such as voltage and current.

One look at the binary tracks will

give you more information about
the causes of a trip.

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Circle diagrams

With the circle diagram, you can

check the characteristics of an
error within the impedance level.

In conjunction with SIPROTEC 4

devices, you can even see how the
error develops within the individual
distance zones.

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Significant and Fast Fault Analysis

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Vector diagrams

You immediately recognize phase

shifting with the vector diagrams.

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Harmonics as bar graphs

With the help of the harmonic

representation, you optimize
threshold values, for example.

Likewise, you assess DC

components and harmonic
components as they occur, for
example, when switching on a
transformer.

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Significant and Fast Fault Analysis

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SIGRA 4 makes more of your data.

SIGRA 4 calculates positive-

sequence impedances, rms
values, symmetrical
components and much more.

SIGRA 4 displays measured

and calculated values in one
common configurable table.

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„ With SIGRA 4, you localize every
fault – offline and stress-free.“

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Reliable and Time-saving Offline Fault Location

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The sophisticated fault locator will help you to
sensibly locate an affected area.

SIGRA 4 masters the two-sided

location of a fault and thus
provides precise results free of
influences through the zero-
sequence system and the
infeed conditions.

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Reliable and Time-saving Offline Fault Location

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The sophisticated fault locator will help you to
sensibly locate an affected area.
With the 2-sided fault locator, you
determine the location to within a
few meters exactly. In this way,
you save yourself the time-
consuming search of the entire
cable section.

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„ You can use SIGRA 4 for all
numerical relays and all network
structures.“

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Independence through Network Configuration

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With the Network Configuration, you

adapt fault records from 3rd-party
relays to the conventions of
SIGRA 4 – and can thus evaluate
fault records, irrespective of the
manufacturer, with the fault locator.

Your benefit in the use with

SIPROTEC 4 devices: All values are
automatically entered.

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Saving Time through Network Configurationen

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You can save a Network

Configuration that you have entered
and then just use this when
evaluating further fault records.

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Keep the Perspective with Individual Views

With SIGRA 4 you decide which information you

want to see and how.
Create views with as many
diagrams as you like.

Create diagrams with as many

signals as you like.

With color, line types and

thicknesses, as well as with
different markings, you vary
how everything looks.

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Save Time with User Profiles

Also apply already defined signal configurations

to other fault records.
You specifically save signal
configurations for different
applications as profiles.

You save time when you apply

these profiles to other fault
records and you can even link
these with certain protection
types.

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„ You not only use fault data with
SIGRA 4, you reuse it.“

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Reuse Data with Office Applications

Log fault records quickly and easily in text

documents.
Using Drag & Drop, you copy
graphic representations from
SIGRA 4 into any text document
you like.

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Reuse Data with Office Applications

Archive measured and calculated data quickly

and easily in tables.
Using Drag & Drop or Copy &
Paste, your copy values from
SIGRA 4 into any spread-sheet
you like.

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Features and Benefits

Carries out all tasks from fault

1 evaluation to data export
All tools on board

2 Uses data model according to

COMTRADE standard
One tool for all numerical protection relays
(SIPROTEC 4 and 3rd-party)

3 Powerful evaluation features ensure

short evaluation time
Shorter system restoration and reduced outage
time

4 Two-sided offline fault location with high

precision of distance to fault calculation
Reduced line patrolling efforts

5 Network configuration possibilities Compatibility with all network structures

6 Customizable user interface

Provides clarity and takes personal habits into
consideration

7 User profiles Save time

8 Export functions for numerical and

graphical data
Reuse of measured and calculated data

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