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• If the answer is less than the Trigger interval, then the Trigger does not occur again.
• If the answer is more than the Trigger interval (or it has never occurred before), then
the Trigger now happens.
Each Trigger has its own interval, and each is tracked separately from all the other
Triggers. Some Triggers are resolved to a specific input pair or even sensor; in this case,
each input pair or sensor has its own interval that is tracked separately. Some Trigger
intervals are based on the voltage rating of the machine being monitored.
All Trigger intervals are backed up so that in the event of a power failure, the GuardII+ will
remember its Trigger status when it starts back up. In the event that it is necessary to start
the Trigger system over from scratch, it can be reset using the Clear Trigger History utility in
IAM described in Section 6.7.3.
4.6.3. Time-Based Trigger
This is the simplest Trigger; it saves a measurement every Trigger interval regardless of
whatever else is happening with the data.
The Trigger interval will be set to 14 days if the machine’s voltage rating is 6 kV or less, or
to 30 days if the machine’s voltage rating is greater than 6 kV.
A measurement saved in the Archive due to a Time-Based Trigger will appear in PDView
with a “PTB” flag as shown in Figure 4-1 below; in the case of a Time-Based Trigger, each
measurement in the set will have the same Trigger indication.
Figure 4-1 Example of a Time-Based Trigger in PDView
NOTE:
Time-Based Triggers will occur even if the machine is offline causing PD
measurements to fail due to a lack of synchronization. If this occurs, then
the measurement saved will be flagged as having failed due to no
synchronization.
4.6.4. Operating Point Time-Based Triggers
These are Time-Based Triggers combined with Operating Condition data, saving
measurements at specific operating points. There are three different Operating Point Time-
Based Triggers:
• Full Load Hot
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