General Electric Company

Irving A Gibbs

Rodney A Lawson

Lawrence J Lane

Michael J D'Antonio

Andrew Joseph Galish

John Harold Parslow

Paul T Murray

Jonathan C Crouch

Jonathan S Adams

Wesley B Johnson

Ron C Schueneman

Justin R Hoglund

A method and apparatus for enabling the continuous monitoring of the operational state of circuit components includes a scheme for generating a plurality of voltage signals representing neutral-to-line voltages of the system and adding to each of those signals a second signal, each second signal being identical. This addition is done vectorially to yield a modified signal. A representation of the modified signal as acted upon by the circuit to be monitored is compared with a representation of the neutral-to-line voltage signal to yield an output signal representative of the operational state of the circuit components.

Method for monitoring operational condition of circuit components

In a system for stabilizing the operation of an electrical generator connected to a power distribution network, which system includes a power system stabilizer operating through a modulator circuit to control generator oscillations, there is included a scheme for testing the integrity of the power system stabilizer and modulator circuit which involves the application of a test signal having known values to the power system stabilizer. This test signal propagates through the circuitry and the resultant output is demodulated to be compared with a stored representation of the test signal to thus yield outputs representing the gain and phase shift of the power system stabilizer and modulator circuit in combination.

Power system stabilizer system having improved integrity checking scheme

Method and apparatus for monitoring an amplifier

A brushless generator exciter employs a hybrid full-wave rectifier in which at least some of the rectifying diodes are controllable according to an external signal for adjusting the total exciter power fed to the generator rotor. An optical transmission technique is employed for communicating gate and sync signals between stationary and rotating components.

Brushless generator exciter using hybrid rectifier

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Irving A Gibbs