PRC-005 Relay Monitoring

[HamburgerHelper]

Does anyone have any issues with getting the NERC PRC-005 maintenance 12 year window with having maintenance staff checking the relays periodically, like nightly. We don't have the relays connected to SCADA but someone should be regularly doing the rounds to check for equipment that has indicated that it has failed.

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[HamburgerHelper]

Just replying to my own question with what I found if someone later searches for this.

The PRC-005 supplemental says this:

 "The alarming mechanism can be a standard alarming system or an auto‐polling system; the only
requirement is that the alarm be brought to the action‐site within 24 hours.   This effectively
makes manned‐stations equivalent to monitored stations.  The alarm of a monitored point (for
example a monitored trip path with a lamp) in a manned‐station now makesthat monitored point
eligible for monitored status."

https://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/PRC0056RD/Supplementary_Reference_Rev_2015Oct09_clean.pdf

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