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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2012
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 1/04 (2006.01); H02H 3/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method to avoid a single point of failure in a system that includes at least two monitoring devices, at least two power supplies and a switching device coupled between the monitoring devices and the power supplies. The method includes performing a test that can determine if two monitoring devices are receiving power from the power supply, generating an error code and varying a position of one or more switches in a switching device based on the error code.