Today's time-domain and traveling-wave protective relays operate in 1 to 2 ms. about an order of magnitude faster than their predecessors. Characteristics of sources, CT saturation, and series compensation have little or no impact on the security. We provide guidance regarding test signals, propose a number of ways to measure and compare relay performance, discuss the issue of. The principle is to grade the operating times of the relays in such a way that the relay closest to the fault spot operates first. The various schemes to be discussed are described in detail in Appendix. The decades of advancements of protection devices (from electromechanical to modern numerical relays) have allowed a significant reduction in protection operate time, from tens of milliseconds down to almost zero. These relays use the concept of impedance measurement to determine.