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Product startup

hiddenFirst, charge the battery

When shipped, the battery inside the COMPANO 100 test set is partly charged, and the test set can be used immediately. To fully charge the battery, grant a charging time of about 90 minutes.

Use the OMICRON-supplied charger, only. That charger has a magnetically attached power connector. Such a connector has the advantage that, when it is tugged — for example, by someone tripping over the cord — it will pull out of the test set's socket without damaging the connector or the socket.

Then connect COMPANO 100 to the device you would like to test

For safety reasons, press the emergency stop button while connecting, and secure the test set against reactivation (see Wiring and Safe Connection).

The illustration below shows current output I OUT connected to an overcurrent protection relay. The relay's potential-free trip contact is connected to binary input IN 1.

hiddenPower up COMPANO 100

Press the On/Off key to power up COMPANO 100. Grant the test set about 30 s to boot up. The test set starts in QUICK (see chapter QUICK).

hiddenPower down COMPANO 100

While COMPANO 100 is running, press the On/Off key again to turn off the test set. COMPANO 100 does not shut off instantly, but performs a controlled shutdown instead.

To abort the controlled shutdown, press any other key of your choice at the front panel control.

A battery running low also initiates a system shutdown, shortly before a looming power supply loss.

Check out the COMPANO 100 Product Startup video on the OMICRON Video Channel (visit https://www.omicronenergy.com/COMPANO100-Startup).

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Testing a relay in QUICK

  1. Turn the jog dial wheel until the focus is on the output current field.
  2. Press the jog dial wheel, set the current to a value of your choice (that is, a value that will make the relay trip for sure), then press the jog dial wheel again.
  3. By default, the timer is configured to start when you press the Start/Stop key, and to end when there is a change at the dry contact connected to IN 1. Therefore, for many applications it may not be necessary to change the timer from its default.
  4. Press the Start/Stop key. The current is issued at the current output.
  5. The current output is turned off by default as soon as the binary contact of the relay switches.
  6. The timer records the duration of the relay trip time, that is, the time it took the relay to trip starting from the moment of the current injection.