Schneider Electric PM5300 manual Input mode overview

Chapter 10—Multi-tariff featurePowerLogic™ PM5300 series user guide

Configuration 2: one season for weekends, with off-peak and shoulder hours, two seasons for weekdays, with shoulder hours

Tariff	Type	Start date	End date	Start time	End time
1	Every day	January 1	December 31	23:00	04:59
2	Weekdays	May 1	September 30	05:00	22:59
3	Weekdays	October 1	April 30	05:00	22:59
4	Weekends	January 1	December 31	05:00	22:59

All days have a tariff applied between 23:00 and 04:59, corresponding to off-peak hours. All weekend days have a tariff applied from 05:00 to 22:59, corresponding to shoulder hours. All weekdays fall into one of two seasons (summer or winter), and have two tariffs applied throughout the day. Example dates and corresponding tariffs:

•Wednesday, March 21, 08:00 = tariff 3

•Tuesday, January 10, 21:00 = tariff 3

•Sunday, June 24, 14:00 = tariff 4

•Friday, August 17, 00:00 = tariff 1

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 2 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)	2	(digital input 1 and 2)

Configuration 1: 2 tariff assignment using 2 digital inputs1

	Tariff	Digital input 2	Digital input 1
T1	0		0
T2	0		1

1There is no inactive tariff with this configuration.

Configuration 2: 2 tariff assignment using 2 digital inputs

Tariff		Digital input 2	Digital input 1
None1	0		0
T1	0		1
T2	1		0

1This digital input configuration (00) means there are no active tariffs (all tariffs are disabled)

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