Switch

Class Description

A generic device designed to close, or open, or both, one or more electric circuits. All switches are two terminal devices including grounding switches. The ACDCTerminal.connected at the two sides of the switch shall not be considered for assessing switch connectivity, i.e. only Switch.open, .normalOpen and .locked are relevant.

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
normalOpen	Boolean	The attribute is used in cases when no Measurement for the status value is present. If the Switch has a status measurement the Discrete.normalValue is expected to match with the Switch.normalOpen.
open	Boolean	The attribute tells if the switch is considered open when used as input to topology processing.
ratedCurrent	Integer	The maximum continuous current carrying capacity in amps governed by the device material and construction. The attribute shall be a positive value.

Relationships

Ancestors

• ConductingEquipment

Descendents

• Disconnector
• Fuse
• Jumper
• ProtectedSwitch

Associations

None