Systems and methods for identifying a failure in an analog to digital converter

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9935646
APP PUB NO 20170019120A1
SERIAL NO

14802787

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The present disclosure provides systems and methods for identifying failures in an analog to digital (A/D) converter. An intelligent electronic device (IED) may monitor a digital output of one or more A/D converters. The IED may determine a slope value limit associated with the A/D converter. The IED may determine an output slope value of the digital output based on a difference of a converter output value measured at a first time and a converter output value measured at a later time. If the determined output slope value exceeds the slope value limit, the IED may identify a failure of the A/D converter. An IED may determine that concurrent failures in multiple, parallel A/D converters are indicative of a problem upstream from the A/D converters.

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  • SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES, INC.

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Mallett, Travis C Pullman, US 13 35

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