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SEL-2020

Communications Processor

Quickly and economically integrate any
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SEL-2020 Communications Processor
UL CSA CE*

  • Automatic Database
    Collect, store, and forward meter reports, targets, digital input status, event reports, demand meter reports, and more. Use the optional Flash memory for nonvolatile storage.
  • Modbus® Slave, DNP3, and ASCII Serial Protocols
    Provides easy-to-configure support for these popular serial protocols. SCADA links, local Human Machine Interface (HMI), and dial-in modems can access data from multiple IEDs or communicate directly with individual IEDs.
  • Multi-Tasking, Multi-User Communications Processor
    Requests, receives, and configures information from connected Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and communicates with master devices. Configure any of the 16 rear ports as IED or master ports.
  • Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Functions
    Use Boolean and arithmetic operators to create logical schemes to produce and forward information or to perform control. Reduce overall system costs and improve system reliability by reducing the number of auxiliary devices.
  • SEL Binary Messages, Interleaved With ASCII Messages
    A single bidirectional communications port carries ASCII commands and responses, interleaved with SEL binary messages. SEL binary messages include SEL Fast Meter messages for analog and digital SCADA information, SEL Fast Meter messages to rapidly send control commands, and SEL Block Transfer messages for efficient communications between communications processors. An example use of these interleaved messages is that they allow an engineer to communicate with a relay in ASCII through a dial-in port without impacting the real-time updates from the relay to a SCADA system.
  • IED Communications
    Powerful parsing, conversion, checksum calculation, and command response setting features allow fast development of IED information retrieval and control schemes. SEL provides "Job Done" examples that show you how to communicate with many IEDs, using the native protocol commands and responses of each IED.
  • Time Synchronization
    Accepts time-code input from IRIG-B time source for its own internal clock and redistributes it to IEDs. Or use the internal clock to generate IRIG-B formatted time to the IEDs.

 

  • Sixteen additional optoisolated inputs and four programmable output contacts.
  • Two MB Flash memory.
  • Internal modem for telephone connection.
  • Rack-mount or panel-mount hardware.

  • Simplify, improve the reliability, and reduce the total cost of SCADA systems by using the SEL-2020 to collect and scale meter data, and also collect targets, contact input status, and fault location directly from relays. Use the contact outputs of relays and other IEDs for control. Directly support Modbus RTU Slave and DNP3 protocols for links to RTUs or masters.
  • Connect IEDs that do not support Modbus to a Distributed Control System (DCS). The communications processor provides faster updates to the DCS than would a multidrop system because it groups data for more efficient multiple-register or block access. Arithmetic functions can change scaling, calculate virtual analog inputs, and compare analog values to thresholds. Use SELOGIC® control equations to combine digital inputs to initiate and qualify automatic control, or for interlocks.
  • Support local HMI on a PC or industrial computer using the SEL-2020 as a communications hub for gathering data from and directing control commands to IEDs in the substation. Local event report collection, settings management, and data archiving may also be included in the local HMI.
  • Set the communications processor to detect critical conditions and dial a pager. Send an ASCII message to an alphanumeric pager.
  • Use the SEL-2020 as a hub to enable low-cost, point-to-point fiber-optic links that isolate equipment from hazardous and damaging ground potential rise; eliminate RFI, EMI, and communications system ground loops; and allow longer signal paths than possible with EIA-232 copper connections.
  • Acquire and forward information from relays and specialized equipment monitoring devices to maintenance databases and expert systems.
  • Use SEL-5020 Settings Assistant Software to prepare settings and communicate with the communications processor.
  • Use with SEL-5040 Power System Report Manager Software to automatically gather relay event reports and manage them with a database.
  • Use SEL-5010 Relay Assistant Software to manage your relay settings.


Budgetary Retail, Quantity 1:
$2,630
Fully Optioned Price: $4,630
(Prices displayed are for planning purposes and are subject to change. Contact your SEL sales representative today for a quote on configurations and quantities to meet your needs.)

 

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Model Option Tables

SEL-2020 Communications Processor
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Datasheets
SEL-2020 Data Sheet
 
Settings Sheets
SEL-2020 Settings Sheet
 
Product Flyers
Scalable Substation Integration
 
 
Technical Papers
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Drawings

Front View - Panel-Mount
Rear View (2U)
Rear View - Conventional Terminal Blocks - Additional I/O (2U)
Dimensions

 

Instruction Manual

SEL-2020 Complete Manual

 

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