Medical Ir system Powe 313 3.3.4 Power supply ducts for radiological or sim- ilar equipment Radiological devices and those with a power con sumption in excess of KVAabsorb high value currents from the power supply ine. For this rea- son the sizing of the power supply conductors must be assessed carefully in order to contain voltage drops. Radiological devices of the fixed type and devices with power consumption greater than 5 HVA, powered directly by the “ordinary” netwerk and in general without the interposition of a socket/ plug group, can be protected with RCDs with a differential current of 0.5, I they may enter the patient environment itis mandatory to adopt differential 30 mA thermo ‘magnetic miniature circuit breakers of tyoe “A” (for single phase circuits) or *B” (especially for three-phase circuits). 3.3.5 Selectivity of the protection devices Particular care must be taken in implementing ef- fective selectivity of the overcurrent protection devices in order to guarantee maximum continu ity of service ‘As far as possible, horizontal and verticalselec- tivity must be implemented. With horizontal se- lectivity, and therefore by subdividing the system Medical it system @ Medical Ir system @) into different circuits, downtime in the case of a malfunction is reduced. Subdivision into several circuits also makes it possible to prevent the ai multaneous use of numerous devices connected to the same circuit from causing the tripping of the RCD (for example due to the capacitive earth leakages of the devices). A particular aspect of horizontal selectivity con- ‘cerns group 2 rooms: the standards require that {for every patient treatment position (such as a socket control panel, a wall-mounted power sup- ply unit or the pensile stand) the plug sockets. Powered by the Medical IT System must be alter- natively (fig. 3.14) + connected to two distinct power supply circuits (each equipped with the respective protection device); + protected against overcurrents individually or in groups (at least two). With this provision. ifa plug socket downstream fails, with tripping of the related protection de- vice, only one socket or one group of sockets will be out of service, while the others remain in oper- ation. Together with horizontal selectivity itis also nec ‘essary to guarantee vertical selectivity so that, in the event of overcurrent, only the device for pro- tection of the circuft affected by the malfunction will rip, and not the device located upstream (fig 3.15), ‘Only this Miniature circuit breaker must be tripped #4 1 1 & T ch I is ARAL bythe Medea System Dprotectonin groups single protection