Classification of electric devices such as breakers and switches enables Electric to model electrical power flow. Electric workflows depend on this classification. See Using Electric Workflows. Classify devices as LOAD devices which are sinks, FEEDER devices which are sources, and PROTECTIVE and SWITCHABLE which are intermediate devices that can act as sinks or sources depending on the context.
Device classification enables Electric to trace upstream and downstream (against or with the power flow) to support the reconfigure flow workflow.Once the direction of the connectivity is set by the reconfigure flow workflow, then a number of other workflows are supported such as Find Fed devices, Find Feeder and Find Alternate Feeder.
Device classification settings are stored in Electric meta tables that can be modified in Infrastructure Administrator .
Do not modify the meta table settings unless you are defining custom data model enhancements. Meta table settings correspond to the Electric NA and the Electric CE data models. We recommend that you do not modify the meta table settings for the default data models.