Eaton Intelligent Power Limited

Cooper Technologies Company

Karl Eric Fender

Clay Lynwood Fellers

Santosh Kumar Sharma

Michael P Nowak

Hassan Al-Atat

Mohammad Umar Hashmi

Damian Antonio Gonzalez

Nudurupati Naga Vasishta Pratap

Michael Paul Nowak

A first electrical response of a capacitor bank is accessed, the capacitor bank including a plurality of capacitor units arranged in a fixed spatial relationship with each other, each capacitor unit having a nominal impedance; a test electrical signal is provided to the capacitor bank; a second electrical response of the capacitor bank is measured after providing the test electrical signal to the capacitor bank; the first electrical response of the capacitor bank and the second response of the capacitor bank are compared; and whether an impedance of one or more capacitor units in the capacitor bank has changed relative to the nominal impedance is determined based on the comparison.

Monitoring system for a capacitor bank

A boost device is coupled to a compensation device that is configured to be connected to a power system. The boost device includes multiple portions, each of the multiple portions including at least one electrical element, and a solid-state switching device electrically connected to the at least one electrical element. The solid-state switching device is connected in parallel with the at least one electrical element such that closing the solid-state switching substantially prevents current flow to the at least one electrical element.

Bypass switch for a boost device

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Greenwood, SC, United States of America

Karl Eric Fender