Schneider Electric HRB1684301-01 user manual Input mode overview

PowerLogic™ PM5500 series user manual Chapter 11—Multi-tariff feature

You can combine these methods if, for example you wanted to create a tariff that applies on Mondays from January 1 to June 30, from 09:00 to 17:00. However, since only one tariff can be applied at any time, you cannot use an everyday or weekday tariff type because you already specified a tariff for the time periods 09:00 to 17:00.

Depending on how you configure the tariffs and the maximum number of tariffs supported by your meter, you may not be able to assign tariffs for the entire year, potentially leaving time gaps that do not have any tariff assigned to them.

Input mode overview

You can use this mode to have the device’s digital inputs set which tariff is applied to the energy that is presently being consumed. If a digital input is used for multi-tariff, it cannot be used for an exclusive association (such as Demand Sync or Input Metering), but digital inputs can be shared with a non-exclusive association (such as Alarms). To make a digital input available for setting tariffs, any conflicting associations must be manually removed at the source of the original association.

The number of different tariffs that can be applied is determined by the number of available digital inputs and the total number of tariffs supported by your device. The digital inputs are used as binary counters to identify the appropriate tariff, where off = 0 and on = 1, and most significant bit (MSB) is digital input 4 and least significant bit (LSB) is digital input 1. By this definition, digital input 1 must be associated with the multi-tariff feature in order to set the tariff to Input mode.

Digital input requirements for required number of tariffs

Number of		Digital inputs required
tariffs required		Configuration 1		Configuration 2
1	1	(digital input 1)	1	(digital input 1)
2	1	(digital input 1)	2	(digital input 1 and 2)
3	2	(digital input 1 and 2)	2	(digital input 1 and 2)
4	2	(digital input 1 and 2)	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)
5	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)
6	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)
7	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)
8	3	(digital input 1, 2 and 3)	4	(digital input 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Configuration 1: 8 tariff assignment using 3 digital inputs1

Tariff	Digital input 4		Digital input 3		Digital input 2	Digital input 1
T1	N/A	0		0		0
T2	N/A	0		0		1
T3	N/A	0		1		0
T4	N/A	0		1		1
T5	N/A	1		0		0
T6	N/A	1		0		1
T7	N/A	1		1		0
T8	N/A	1		1		1

1There is no inactive tariff with this configuration.

Configuration 2: 8 tariff assignment using 4 digital inputs

Tariff		Digital input 4		Digital input 3		Digital input 2	Digital input 1
None1	0		0		0		0
T1	0		0		0		1
T2	0		0		1		0
T3	0		0		1		1
T4	0		1		0		0

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