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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1988
Filed:
May. 29, 1986
Gary F Saletta, Penn Township, Westmoreland County, PA (US);
Daniel P Orange, Penn Township, Westmoreland County, PA (US);
Joseph C Engel, Monroeville Boro, PA (US);
Denis A Mueller, Asheville, NC (US);
Robert T Elms, Monroeville Boro, PA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A master metering module is taught which utilizes a programmed microprocessor and externally operated switches to alert the module as to what kind of system is being monitored thereby. For example, is the system being monitored a .DELTA.-connected electrical system or a Y-connected electrical system. This is useful in providing output indications of line-to-line voltage or line-to-neutral voltage, for example. When measuring voltages whether line-to-line or line-to-neutral one voltage value is substituted from another. A differential amplifier is utilized to do this. In one case the differential amplifier subtracts one line voltage from another line voltage, but in another case it subtracts neutral or zero ground potential from a line voltage. A switching arrangement is provided which interconnects one terminal of the differential amplifier with the neutral input terminal and with a line input terminal through appropriate conditioning of the microprocessor.