Power monitor

Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – Plural inputs

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

G01R 2100

Patent

active

040964361

ABSTRACT:
A power monitor including a high power shunt connected in series with an electrical load to develop a signal proportional to current which is then modulated. A second signal proportional to the voltage across the load is developed by a voltage divider network. The two signals are applied as inputs to an electronic multiplier which produces a modulated output signal which is proportional to the power being dissipated by the load. The ouput signal from the multiplier is fed through an isolation transformer which passes the modulated power signal, but blocks the high load voltage. The power signal is then demodulated, filtered and displayed digitally on a meter. This signal is also provided as an analog output. An oscillator synchronizes both the demodulator and modulator, the oscillator drive of the modulator being isolated. When the load is a three-phase device, two such watt-meter modules are employed to measure the current and voltages associated with two of the three legs of the load, the output of the demodulators of the two modules are then summed, passed through a filter and displayed as a single power reading. During the summation process, the demodulated output signal is electrically scaled to read as horsepower, kilowatts, or percent of full scale.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3934198 (1976-01-01), Milkovic
patent: 3953795 (1976-04-01), Brunner et al.
patent: 3955138 (1976-05-01), Milkovic

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Power monitor does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Power monitor, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Power monitor will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1136563

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.