The Relay Testing Handbook is a practical resource written by a relay tester for relay testers; it is a comprehensive series of practical instructional manuals that provide the knowledge necessary to test most modern protective relays. This handbook covers the code of practice in protection circuitry including standard lead and device numbers, mode of connections at terminal strips, colour codes in multicore cables, dos and donts in execution. Also principles of various protective relays and schemes including special protection. Essential relay protection engineering books In this post, I've compiled three must-read books that bridge traditional principles with contemporary applications to help engineers excel in today's power systems landscape. Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications Authors: J. Lewis. Actually - look up the TESTING of protective relays. The reality of the relays and working with them will teach you much more than you will learn from the book. Protective Relay Principles focuses on probable power system. Traditional protective relay books are written by engineers as a resource for engineers to use when modeling the electrical system or creating relay settings, and they often have very little practical use for the test technician in the field.