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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
May. 05, 1997
Francis J Parker, Cooper City, FL (US);
Emilian Padurariu, West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Richard Crawbuck, Jupiter, FL (US);
Ventex Group, LLC, Riviera Beach, FL (US);
Abstract
A power supply for powering a neon sign assembly includes a ground fault detection circuit having a current sensing circuit that produces a voltage that is proportional to the current that flows from a center tap of an output transformer, a phase-sensitive rectifier that receives output from the current sensing circuit and a reference voltage from the transformer and produces an output voltage that depends on the magnitude of the output from the current sensing circuit and the phase angle between the output from the current sensing circuit and the reference voltage, and an amplitude comparator that produces an output to a latch circuit only when an output voltage from the phase-sensitive rectifier is equal to or greater than a pre-set ground fault current limit.