摘要:
An electronic overcurrent detection and tripping circuit for circuit breakers is disclosed. The circuit includes an instantaneous trip circuit, a short time delay trip circuit, a long time delay trip circuit and a ground trip circuit. Each of the circuits is provided with adjustable ranges which can be set by suitable tap blocks or the like. A novel power supply is provided for the circuit which incorporates a unique series-connected zener diode and sensing resistor. The power supply circuit also provides sufficient power for tripping a magnetic latch of the circuit breaker whose current is being monitored. Each of the circuit functions can be disabled for purposes of tests by simply placing the function tap block pin in an appropriate test position.
摘要:
An electrical device for protecting an alternating current network in which a static inverse time-overcurrent relay obtains network current information and relay circuit operating power from a current transformer having two secondary windings. Low transformer burden and accurate network information signals that are linearly responsive to a wide range of network current magnitudes are achieved through the use of a switching circuit that prevents the simultaneous operation of both secondary windings. The relay circuit employs an RC network with a short, precision time constant for curve shaping and employs digital counting techniques to provide time delay multiplication, precision time scale selection and a variable delay time variable in accordance with the magnitude of system current.
摘要:
A protective system interposed between a d-c power supply and an external load to isolate the supply from the load should the current drawn therefrom exceed a predetermined threshold value, the system distinguishing between a transitory overload and a continuous overload condition. The system includes a current-sensing resistor connected in series with the supply and the load and a comparator responsive to the voltage drop developed across the resistor to produce an output signal which activates a relay to cut off the delivery of current to the load only when the current exceeds the threshold value. Also included is a sampling circuit which upon activation of the relay functions after a brief sampling interval to automatically de-activate the relay and thereby reconnect the supply to the load, causing the comparator to again determine whether the existing current drain is still excessive, in which event the relay is again activated and the sampling cycle repeated. A timing-out circuit operates in conjunction with the sampling circuit to permit the sampling cycle to continue repetitively as long as an overcurrent condition is sensed. However, at the conclusion of a timing-out period which is a multiple of the sampling interval, if an overcurrent condition still exists, the timing-out circuit acts to reactivate the relay and cut off the delivery of current to the load and to hold the relay in its activated state.
摘要:
A circuit breaker having an electronic fault sensing and trip initiating unit which provides increased versatility and ability to coordinate the circuit breaker with other interrupting and protective devices in a wide variety of electrical distribution systems. Electronic circuits and components are provided to vary the ampere rating of the breaker, to adjust current carrying capacity, to provide a long time delay trip, a short time delay trip and an instantaneous trip depending on the amplitude of high fault currents, to provide a ground fault trip, to shorten or lengthen the trip time for short time delay faults and for ground faults, and to provide shunt trip capability. The tripping mechanism is magnetic and mechanical, and includes a plunger movable between a trip and non-trip position controlled by an electronic switch in the electronic circuitry, and a toggle mechanism which is unlatched by the plunger when it moves to the trip position. A bimetal trip mechanism is provided as back-up protection if the ambient temperature not sensed by the electronic circuitry exceeds a pre-determined level.
摘要:
The primary winding of a saturable transformer, coupled to an a.c. circuit, drives the core of the transformer into saturation during at least a portion of the cycle of an a.c. current flowing through the circuit. A plurality of rise-time indicator pulses, having a duration inversely proportional to the rate of rise of the a.c. current being monitored, is induced in the secondary winding of the saturable transformer. The rise-time indicator pulses appearing in the secondary winding of the saturable transformer are applied to a pick-up circuit which generates a plurality of rectangular pulses whenever the a.c. current exceeds the normal rated value of the circuit. The pulses generated by the pick-up circuit each have a duty cycle inversely proportional to the rate of rise of the a.c. current being monitored. An inverter circuit, responsive to the pulses generated by the pick-up circuit, generates a second series of rectangular pulses having a duty cycle proportional to the rate of rise of the a.c. current being monitored. The second series of pulses are applied to a tripping circuit which monitors the duty cycles of these pulses and interrupts a.c. current flow in said circuit after a time delay which is inversely proportional to the magnitude of the a.c. current being monitored.
摘要:
A circuit for a polyphase motor which operates in response to undesirable operating conditions so as to prevent damage to the electric motor. The protection circuit converts current to voltage over a range of operating currents. The current sensitive voltage in response to an undesired current condition triggers the operation of a gating circuit to apply potential to an output switch which in turn controls the current supply and stops the motor. The gating circuit is also triggered by a detector circuit sensing a deficiency in motor current to thereby actuate the output switch and interrupt the motor operation and thus protect the motor. A timing circuit provides an inverse time function in conjunction with the voltage applied to the gating circuit. The timing circuit is adjustable to provide adjustability in the elapsed time for providing a triggering voltage to the gating circuit.
摘要:
A solid state inverse overcurrent relay having a long slender wire connected to respond to a current which is proportional to the line current in a power system. An infrared detector or phototransistor is positioned to sense a predetermined color of radiation from the wire and is connected to fire a silicon controlled rectifier which is connected in series with a trip coil for a circuit breaker. The trip coil and silicon controlled rectifier are connected to an independent DC power source. The long slender wire on energization responds to the current which is proportional line current with the same time current characteristic as a fuse. In an alternate embodiment of the invention the relay is connected to the power system through a bridge rectifier which provides the DC current for operating both the heat responsive wire as well as the infrared detector.
摘要:
A self-powered solid state overload relay having current transformers energized by current to a motor to be protected. The transformer has secondary windings connected through diodes to charge a capacitor in a circuit which senses the magnitude of motor current and capacitors in a trip-reset circuit which causes the circuit to be interrupted when the motor current exceeds a pre-programmed value. The diodes in capacitor charging circuits are poled so that the capacitor in the sensing circuit and the capacitor trip-reset circuit are charged by opposite polarity rectified half wave current pulses. The cores of the transformers are sized and impedances are included in the charging circuits to cause the capacitors in the trip-reset circuit to be fully charged before the capacitor in the sensing circuit is charged to a level which would cause the relay to operate to interrupt the motor circuit and the cores of the transformers to saturate in one direction on their associated hysteresis loops when the capacitors in the trip-reset circuit are being charged and in the opposite direction after the capacitor in the sensing circuit is charged.
摘要:
A self-powered solid state overload relay circuit having current transformers energized by conductors supplying current to a multiphase alternating current motor. The transformers have secondary windings connected to charge a capacitor with a voltage indicative of the magnitude of the maximum current in the motor windings. The circuit includes presetable impedance circuits which permit the circuit to be easily programmed to respond to a range of abnormal motor currents in the winding in motors of varying size and service factor ratings, components which are arranged to duplicate the operation of melting alloy and bimetal type overload relays in an automatic or in a trip-free manual reset mode, a light emitting device which visually indicates when the relay is in a tripped state, and components which cause the relay to be insensitive to ambient temperature variations.
摘要:
A protective device includes a circuit breaker with an operating means connected to a fault current sensing control circuit. A small line current and/or a small fault current sensing current transformer means is conductively connected through individual rectifiers and series sensing resistors as a current source to charge a common power supply capacitor. A voltage limiting means across the capacitor maintains the current source. A high impedance signal processing amplifier includes a sensing transistor connected to the sensing resistor which establishes a minimum trip level and driving coupling transistors connected to the capacitor and including voltage sensitive means to positively inhibit full amplifier turn-on before the power supply capacitor is charged to an operating voltage level. In a fault condition, the amplifier rapidly charges a hold-on capacitor which slowly discharges to activate a timing control transistor of a time delay circuit, the output of which triggers a rapid, stabilized switch to operate the circuit breaker. The timing circuit may be driven from the power supply capacitor or a separate timing source capacitor which rapidly charges to the peak value of the sensing resistor and slowly discharges to establish a relatively constant and high average current such that timing is not sensitive to current transformer saturation. Where both line and ground fault sensors are connected to the common amplifier, they share the same timing means and have the same delay curves with a significant reduction in circuit cost and complexity. A clamping network may be connected to the sensing resistor to also minimize transformer core saturation and establish a maximum timing current and allow heavy fault currents of short duration.