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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1992
Filed:
May. 20, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Martin Schuyler, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Assignee:
Cox & Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324511 ; 324510 ; 3241 / ; 340661 ;
Abstract
A fault detection circuit for a plurality of three-phase loads uses a wye-connected reference load as a benchmark. The voltages at the centerpoints of the loads to be monitored are monitored and the largest monitored voltage is identified. This largest voltage is compared with the voltage of the centerpoint of the reference load. The comparison is affected by faults which do not affect all loads equally (as by a short or open in one of the phases of one of the loads) and is unaffected by faults which do affect all loads equally (as by changes in voltage of one of the phases of the source).