See Generic Reconfiguration Setup for details on user input options for this application.
For general details on running an application, selecting and displaying output variables, see Running DEW Applications.
The Available Output for the application are described in the last section of this topic.
Generic Reconfiguration optimizes recovery from component failure outages by re-configuring sectionalizing devices to isolate the failed component and restore service to applicable system loads in accordance with user-established load priorities and system interdependencies.
Typically, Generic Reconfiguration is run after component failures have been flagged in the system and the user needs to determine the optimal system recovery available for defined load priorities and system constraints. Below, the Line LN5 was failed (i.e. using Fail/Restore Component command from the Tools menu).
With given switching states, the LN5 failure is not isolated and would result in outages for LN4 and LN9,
Running the Generic Reconfiguration application modifies switching configuration to isolate the failed component and to restore power to lines (LN4, LN9) by opening SW2 & RC3 and closing RC2. The resulting reconfiguration is shown below, where devices operated by application may be identified with attached messages (when Tag Device Order setting is selected in setup).
Generic Reconfiguration does not generate any output variables, but can produce output messaging with an associated report that summarizes results of the run. To generate messaging, the user must select Tag Device Order in application setup (General tab).
Then, after the run, user can Review Messages (i.e. from View menu or Tool bar) to display listing of components operated during the run.
User may create the Reconfiguration report file by selecting the [Write to File] command from the Review Messages dialog.
