Method and apparatus for adaptive configuration and control in a network of electronic circuit breakers
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Feb 27, 2001
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Nov 12, 1998
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May 5, 1998
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A system including a load center monitor (10) connected to a plurality of digitally enhanced circuit breakers (40) by a communication bus (26) forms a network of reconfigurable circuit breakers which provides advanced monitoring and control of an electrical power distribution system. A user port (20) and a service port (22) provide a communication interface with an external computer. Visual indicators (34) and an audible alarm (30) provide for alerting persons to certain conditions in the system. Buttons are provided for CLEAR (38), RESET (36), and TEST functions, and a diagnostic port (24) is also provided. The load center monitor (10) is operable to monitor the operation of the circuit breakers (40) and download information therefrom for storage in the load center monitor (10) as in the form of historical data. Further, the load center monitor (10) is operable to adaptively configure the trip profiles of individual circuit breakers (40) in the network by uploading the alternate selection or revision to the trip profile to an individual circuit breaker (40) in order to change the operation thereof.
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