Auxiliary contacts are child items of disconnect electrical equipment.
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You can create only one auxiliary contact under a given type of disconnect electrical equipment.
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You cannot create auxiliary contacts under metering equipment.
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In the Electrical Index or Reference Data Explorer, expand the following hierarchy:
Power Distribution Equipment > Disconnect Electrical Equipment.
Also, you can create an auxiliary contact under any circuit in the Electrical Index. However, the software does not allow you to create more than one auxiliary contact
under a specific circuit. That is, if you try to create an auxiliary contact under
a circuit which already has an auxiliary contact, the software displays a message
informing you that this operation is not allowed.
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Expand the hierarchy further until you see the individual child items of disconnect electrical equipment.
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Right-click an appropriate child item of the required disconnect electrical equipment (for example, a contactor) and then select New.
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In the Reference Data Explorer, you can type a string up to 80 characters long.
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In the Electrical Index, the name must be in accordance with the naming convention for the item type. See Using Naming Conventions.
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In the Properties window, enter the item properties as required.
On the Preferences dialog, General tab, under Open after creating or duplicating an item, you can specify whether to open the Item Tag dialog when you create a new item.