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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2011
Richard Hock, Farmersville, TX (US);
Richard Hock, Farmersville, TX (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A DC power system and a system controller for the DC power system are disclosed herein. The architecture of the DC power allows optimizing efficiency thereof. In one embodiment, the DC power system includes: (1) a battery configured to provide transitional DC power to a load bus of the DC power system, the battery indirectly coupled to the load bus, (2) a source connection circuit configured to conditionally connect the battery to the load bus and (3) a DC power system controller configured to direct the source connection circuit to connect the battery to the load bus in response to an outage of an AC input of the DC power system.