InstaPlan®
Intense discussions with electrical system designers have led to the development of InstaPlan,
a tool for planning power system instantaneous selective coordination. InstaPlan allows the
accurate and quick selection of circuit breakers based on their potential for being selective up to
the full theoretical bolted fault value on a protected circuit.
You provide information regarding utility bus interrupting current levels, conductors, and distribution
transformers. InstaPlan then estimates fault values at multiple buses, including asymmetry, and
provides a selection of circuit breakers that are able to deliver the required fault and instantaneous
selectivity performance.
Download & Install InstaPlan® 2.0
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Overcurrent Device Look-up Tables and System Design Guide
Our selective coordination look-up tables are quick and easy to use. They comprise multiple tables for
main (or upstream) and branch breakers. Simply match the required main and branch circuit current
ratings and select the combination based on the available short circuit current.
GE Publication DET-537,
Overcurrent Device Instantaneous Selectivity Capabilities provides
instructions, tables and sample one-line diagrams to display the instantaneous selectivity capability of various
overcurrent devices. A broad range of circuit breakers from 15 amperes to 5000A amperes are
described in various detailed tables as well as simpler to use summary tables.
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GE Publication DET-654,
Guide to Low Voltage System Design and Selectivity
puts some of the most useful information included in DET-537 into an easy to use format.
The publication includes text on selectivity interpretation and enforcement, a graphical representation of selective breaker pairs,
and a set of templates designed around common transformer sizes.
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Time Current Curves
GE publishes Time Current Curves, Energy Peak-Let-Through Curves and Peak-Let-Through curves
that are useful for coordination studies and other overcurrent protective device selection tasks.
View GE Time Current Curves
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