Smc Electrical Products, Inc.

Becker Mining America, Inc

Sam Handshoe

Bill Blankenship

Methods and systems for a ground wire tone monitor, a multi-channel open loop ground wire tone monitoring system, and method for monitoring two or more ground wires in a power distribution system. A tone monitor includes a transmitter assembly and a receiver assembly. The receiver assembly on the power center communicates with the transmitter assembly on the machine side through a ground wire, so that this ground wire can be directly monitored, the location of the receiver and transmitter interchangeable. The multi-channel system includes up to 16-standalone tone monitor pairs used together to form a multi-channel system. Each tone monitor pair forms one channel in the multi-channel system and each channel operates on a unique preselected frequency. Filters are used to pass signals through to the receivers; the Amplitude of the signal is used to calculate the resistance of the ground wire.

Multi-channel tone monitor system and method for ground wire monitoring using same

A removable electrical power cell including an incoming electrical source connector with a circuit interrupting device and an electrically isolated outgoing electrical load connector, an electro-mechanical switching assembly connected to a movable disconnect switch to move the disconnect switch between an open and grounded position and a closed and energized position and a controller to provide an input signal for controlling the operation of the electro-mechanical switching assembly to control an operation of the removable electrical power cell. The electro-mechanical switching assembly includes a rack and pinion switching assembly and a lockout limit switch to control operation of the automatic power switching assembly. The electro-mechanical switching assembly including a motor driven switching assembly to automatically open and close the high voltage power isolation switch based on an incoming signal. The motorized removal power cell including a lock out assembly to prevent removing the power cell when closed and energized.

Removable rack mountable power cell

Methods, systems, devices for a motorized isolation switch including a switch enclosure with a set of fixed insulated floating input line connectors and output load connectors movably fixed to the rear panel, a removable contactor bucket insertable into the isolation switch enclosure with mating movable insulated line terminals and load terminals and a set of insulated circuit interrupters, a motorized rack and pinion assembly connected to a base of the switch enclosure, coupled for moving a contactor pan connectable to the contactor bucket along a stationary rack gear along the base of the switch enclosure between and switch open position and a switch closed position, an insulating grounding block with ground connectors, the contactor bucket with corresponding movable ground terminals to mate with the insulated ground connectors in the switch open position, and ancillary controls for communicating with remotely located controls to electrically control the operation.

Motorized vacuum isolation switch

Methods and systems for a hot circuit detector/indicator that continuously monitors a three-phase network and has visual indications for phase sequence, phase presence, and phase loss. The hot circuit indicator is a compact unit that, in a preferred embodiment, includes separate light emitting diode indicators for each phase and LEDs to indicate clockwise and counter-clockwise phase sequence. The hot circuit detector/indicator also includes a relay that can be a normally open or normally closed. The hot circuit indicator can be panel mounted or integrated into a connector supplying multi-phase voltage to a load. The multi-phase voltage to be monitored can be in a range between 12 vac and 38 kVac.

Electrical hot circuit indicator

A high-voltage sensing capacitor as an interface apparatus that may be used to attach an indicator unit to a high-voltage AC electrical bus and to provide safety to maintenance personnel. The high-impedance nature of the sensing capacitor effectively isolates the indicator unit from the high-voltage source to which it is connected. The sensing capacitor can be directly mounted between a high-voltage busbar and an indicator unit to provide visual and/or audible alerts to maintenance personnel when high voltage conditions are detected on the busbar. The sensing capacitor is comprised of a portable, unitary capacitive structure that includes a molded insulator body encapsulating two electrodes. The electrodes only partially or incompletely overlap within the insulator body. The electrode spacing and configuration is structured to provide a deliberate amount of coupling between the two electrodes in the presence of an AC electric field.

High voltage sensing capacitor and indicator device

A high-voltage sensing capacitor as an interface apparatus that may be used to attach an indicator unit to a high-voltage AC electrical bus and to provide safety to maintenance personnel. The high-impedance nature of the sensing capacitor effectively isolates the indicator unit from the high-voltage source to which it is connected. Multiple electrical phases can be interfaced using a plurality of such sensing capacitors. The sensing capacitor can be directly mounted to a high-voltage busbar. The indicator unit may provide visual and/or audible alerts to maintenance personnel when high voltage conditions are detected on the busbar by the sensing capacitor. The sensing capacitor is comprised of a portable, unitary capacitive structure that includes a molded insulator body encapsulating two electrodes. The electrodes of the capacitor only partially or incompletely overlap within the insulator body. The electrode spacing and configuration is structured to provide a deliberate amount of coupling between the two electrodes in the presence of an AC electric field. Because of rules governing Abstracts, this Abstract should not be used to construe the claims in this patent application.

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Catlettsburg, KY, United States of America

Sam Handshoe