Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

Brett Taggart

Timothy M Minteer

David Kenny

Raymond W Rice

Benjamin T Rowland

Johnny J Moore

Lyssa W Blood

Systems and methods include using a magnetic core winder to install a powerline-mounted device with a non-gapped magnetic core, therefore reducing the weight of the powerline-mounted device while still harvesting equal or more power than a large cross-sectional and gapped magnetic cores. In particular, the methods include installing bobbin(s) and a core housing on a powerline and winding strip/ribbon core material onto the core housing. The bobbins may be wound axially opposed to on a toroid winder, which improves the accuracy of turns count of the magnetic core. The improved accuracy of turns count may increase the accuracy and/or tolerance of magnetic component(s) of the powerline-mounted device.

Magnetic core winder for powerline-mounted devices

A current transformer (CT) isolation clamp is mounted to a phase conductor and includes a step-down CT transformer and a passive isolation transformer. A three-phase power-harvesting sensor system includes a plurality of CT isolation clamps mounted to phase conductors in a three-phase power system. An electronics module is connected to the CT isolation clamps. The electronics module may include a sensing circuit to determine power characteristics of the three-phase power system based on the outputs of the CT isolation clamps. The electronics module may include a communication subsystem to transmit the determined power characteristics to local or remote devices. Additionally, the electronics module may include a power harvesting circuit to harvest power to operate the sensing circuit and the communication subsystem.

Multiphase power-harvesting sensor devices and systems

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Brett Taggart