Configure Feeder Manager

ArcFM's Feeder Manager automatically determines which circuit or source(s) energizes a piece of electrical equipment with power and tracks which of its electrical phases are energized on the primary side. Feeder Manager responds to edits to the network (such as closing a switch) by updating the Feeder ID and energized phase information for all affected features.

MMElectricTraceWeight stores all of the attribute information about a device or conductor that feeder management needs to perform traces and assign FeederID values. The attribute information contains data on FeederID, tracing impedance (open or closed status) and possibly operating voltage and phasing information. Feeder Manager relies on the weight autoupdater, which is a collection of autoupdaters. The weight autoupdater automatically maintains the value of the MMElectricTraceWeight field for every feature class in the geometric network.

Feeder Manager does NOT support the manual manipulation of the MMElectricTraceWeight field. Some feature classes will have a Null value in the MMElectricTraceWeight field. The features that carry a non-null trace weight are determined by model name. Refer to the Electric Tracing - Junctions page in the Appendix for more information.

You may have no more than two line features emanating from or entering into a protective or switchable device point feature, unless this feature has the TRANSFORMER model name assigned.

Feeder Manager requires specific classes, fields, relationships, and domains in the geodatabase design. If your geodatabase can't be designed this way, you may need to create a custom weight autoupdater.

Extended Feeder Manager: As of the 9.2.1 release, Extended Feeder Manager provides support for multi-tiered networks. This means some additional configuration. If you're doing a new configuration, follow the steps below and include the portions marked "optional" on each page. If you're upgrading an existing Feeder Manager configuration to Extended Feeder Manager, follow the upgrade steps. Optional configurations are listed with each step. Perform these portions of the configuration only if you wish to use Extended Feeder Manager with your multi-tiered network.

Tracing with Extended Feeder Manager: The ArcFM Feeder SubSource Level autoupdater assigns a level value of 0 to an ultimate source, then increasing values as it encounters subsources downstream. Each level in a feeder may have no more than one subsource (multiple subsources per level requires a custom autoupdater). The Upstream and Downstream traces use these subsource level values. The ArcFM Upstream trace halts if it encounters a subsource that has a level greater than or equal to the previous level (i.e., lower voltage). The ArcFM Downstream trace halts if it encounters a subsource less than or equal to the previous level (i.e., higher voltage).

Before configuring Feeder Manager (or Extended Feeder Manager) you must perform the Basic ArcFM Configuration. This configuration is required. Without it, your Feeder Manager configuration will fail.

This section is broken into steps, followed by additional information that you may find useful.

STEP 1: Create domains

Info: Voltage Code Domains

Info Use Operating voltage

STEP 2: Identify the feature classes to include in the network

EFM Info: ParentCircuitSourceID Field

STEP 3: Set sources

STEP 4: Add model names to domain

STEP 5: Configure CircuitSource object class

Info: Relationship keys

Info: Relationship test

EFM Step: Create CircuitSourceID Table (Perform this step ONLY if you are configuring EFM)

STEP 6: Assign model names and field model names

STEP 7: Export XML

STEP 8: Initialize electric trace weights

STEP 9: Build the geometric network

STEP 10: Convert to ArcFM Objects

STEP 11: Assign autoupdaters

Info: Use Custom weight autoupdaters

EFM Info: Extended Feeder Manager Autoupdaters

STEP 12: Configure default junctions

EFM Step: Define SubSources (Perform this step ONLY if you are configuring EFM)

EFM Step: Define Ultimate Sources (Perform this step ONLY if you are configuring EFM)

EFM Step: Jigger Ultimate Sources (Perform this step ONLY if you are configuring EFM)

STEP 13: Initialize FeederID Fields

STEP 14: Add a Circuit to the Network

Info: Inspect and Fix Source Weights

Info: Trace Feeders

Info: Feeder Manager Settings

Info: Legacy Issues