At step 436, if the option to give up on too many shorts is not enabled, then control proceeds to step 438 where the short circuit event is registered by incrementing RepShortCntr, which affects the length of the delay time OFF-Delay as discussed above. Thus the more short circuit events that occur close to each other, OFF-Delay is increased and the more time the isolator waits before reclosing the isolator.
On the other hand, if the option is enabled but the number of confirmed short circuits has not surpassed some predetermined threshold, (as determined in step 450), then again control proceeds to step 438, where the short circuit event is registered by incrementing the RepShortCntr counter. The Ptest is stopped (step 440) and the isolator is closed at step 442, allowing once again the two sides of the network loop to communicate.