Socomec

Socomec S.a.

Marc Capot

Christian Kern

Pierre-Henri Herr

Thomas Bernard

A method for detecting the open or closed state of a protection appliance in an electrical installation including a voltage detector upstream of the protection appliance and a voltage detector downstream thereof, in which the voltage data provided by the voltage detectors is used to obtain information regarding the presence or absence of voltage upstream and downstream of the protection appliance, a correlation is established between the voltage data, and it is determined whether the protection appliance is in an open state, in a closed state, in an abnormal state or in an undetermined state. The current data provided by the current detectors can also be used to determine the cause of the tripping of the protection appliance, and to thereby obtain a full, precise and real-time diagnostic for the operation of the electrical installation.

Method for detecting the state of an electrical protection appliance in an electrical installation and detection device implementing said method

Equipment () for measuring the energy consumption of branches (-N) of an electrical network () which comprises a single voltages measuring device () connected upstream of the branches of the network so as to measure the voltages of the network in a centralized manner, and several dedicated current measuring devices () connected to each branch of the network so as to measure the currents on the branches of the network. The measuring devices () are connected by network cable () allowing digital communication of the voltage measurements to the current measuring devices (), which comprises a processing unit () for calculating the energy consumption of the analyzed branch of the network. The voltage and current measurements are performed by sampling, and the sampling frequencies are compared and adjusted automatically so as to synchronize the current samples with the voltage samples.

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Kintzheim, France

Marc Capot