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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2024
S&c Electric Company, Chicago, IL (US);
David Glenn Porter, East Troy, WI (US);
Christine Elizabeth Mcneil, West Allis, WI (US);
S&C Electric Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining a squelch level for each transformer in a series of transformers connected to a power line that communicate with each other through PLC. The method includes selectively transmitting a PLC test message by each transformer on the power line both upstream and downstream of the transmitting transformer to determine that the transmitting transformer can communicate with other transformers; responding to the PLC test message that is received by each transformer to identify the transformers that can communicate with the transmitting transformer; measuring the RSSI of the PLC messages that each transformer receives; recording the strongest RSSI in each transformer of the PLC messages that are received by the transformer; and setting the squelch level for each transformer as a predetermined reduction of the recorded RSSI in each transformer.