Creating Electrical Devices for Power Distribution

You can define the electrical devices, which take part in your power wiring network. To do so, you must define specific properties for these electrical devices.

The electrical devices definition must respect constraints, for more information see About Constraints.

Before you begin: Create a connector type with the subtechnology defined as Power. For more information, see Creating Connector Types.

In the Electrical Devices node, create your electrical devices and their ports:
1. Create an electrical device. For more information, see Create an EE Component.
2. Create ports with the Power connector type and with In or Out distribution. See Creating Connector Types and Add a Port to an EE Component.
  Important: Do not select Inout for the port distribution.
3. Optional: To define control ports for a relay, create ports with a subtechnology other than power and with In or Out distribution. For more information, see Add a Port to an EE Component.
  Note: For more information about specific relay behaviors, see About Power Distribution.
Select the created electrical device model in the tree.
In the Electrical tab of the Properties view, characterize electrical devices:
1. In the Device type field, select a value.
  This property is mandatory for all electrical devices.
  If you select:
  - A fuse, a relay, or a shunt: A Rating field appears in the tab.
  - A fuse: A Derating factors table appears in the tab.
2. Optional: In the Subtype field, enter a subtype. For example, mini fuse for fuses.
3. Optional: In the Rating field, enter a rating in Ampere only for fuse, relay, and shunt.

For each derating factor to be defined for fuses, enter these details in the Derating factors table:


Column	Description
Name	Double-click the empty cell and enter a name.
Correction coefficient	Double-click the empty cell and enter a value.

Click elsewhere to validate.

You can now define electrical properties on ports.