An apparatus includes a safety fault interrupter circuit. The safety fault interrupter circuit includes a safety fault monitor coupled to a first bias node and configured to selectively assert a fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a first bias voltage and a first power consumption. The safety fault interrupter circuit also includes a power fault monitor for the safety fault monitor, wherein the power fault monitor is coupled to a second bias node and is configured to selectively assert the fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a second bias voltage and a second power consumption that is less than the first power consumption.

A method for automatically testing a relay is provided. The method includes applying power to a testing device for automatically testing the relay, determining a position of a selector switch based on a user selection for testing, selectively energizing the relay based on the position of the selector switch, detecting, by a hardware processor, an energize status signal from the selector switch, testing, by the hardware processor and based at least on the energize status signal, a control coil or a contact of the relay to generate a test result, and displaying, using display, the energize status signal and the test result.

A method for detecting a tripping of a disconnection unit in an electrical enclosure, the electrical enclosure including at least one disconnection unit for disconnecting electric current and at least one switching unit for switching the electric current, the method including a learning phase configured to generate decision-making categories associated with an acoustic signature of the tripping of the at least one disconnection unit, and a phase of detecting the tripping of the disconnection unit, including: acquiring a unit noise signal generated by at least one of the disconnection units for disconnecting the electric current or at least one switching unit for switching the electric current, and comparing the unit noise signal with the decision-making categories in order to detect whether the unit noise signal corresponds to the tripping of the disconnection unit.

A testing method has corresponding a contacts group to a key of a computer keyboard; corresponding a contacts group state to a key state; corresponding a first keys group and a second keys group to a first power contacts group and a second power contacts group respectively; obtaining and storing a first values group and a second values group when the first keys group and the second keys group are closed respectively; respectively calculating difference values between one value in the first or second values group and other values thereof; dividing the difference values by the device frequency value to obtain a first or second difference values group; and storing the difference values groups. The first and second difference values groups accurately reflect conduct synchronism of each pole of dual power transfer switch.

The present disclosure relates to a contact monitoring device for a vacuum circuit breaker, which may compensate for errors of a contact monitoring device capable of monitoring a contact wear amount in a vacuum interrupter, and to a vacuum circuit breaker comprising same. According to the present disclosure, the contact monitoring device for a vacuum circuit breaker may determine an appropriate time for maintenance and repair by monitoring in real time a contact wear amount using a photosensor. Moreover, the contact monitoring device for a vacuum circuit breaker, by using two photosensors, minimizes position errors with respect to the photosensors or a push rod that may be present inherently in the sensors or occur due to an installation state, and thus, may detect the contact wear amount with precision.

The present disclosure relates to a contact point monitoring device for a vacuum circuit breaker, and a correction method performed through same, wherein deviations due to temperature in a sensor for monitoring the amount of wear at a contact point may be compensated for. According to the present disclosure, the amount of wear at the contact point may be accurately detected by correcting a characteristic value of a photosensor according to operation temperature, by taking into consideration the temperature characteristics of the photosensor.

The present disclosure relates to a contact point monitoring module for a vacuum circuit breaker and a vacuum circuit breaker comprising the same. The present disclosure provides a vacuum circuit breaker comprising a push rod assembly which is coupled to a movable electrode of a vacuum interrupter and moves the movable electrode up or down to make a movable contact in a contact closed state or a contact open state, wherein the vacuum circuit breaker comprises a linear sensor which is coupled to a lower side of the push rod assembly and senses displacement according to a moving direction of the push rod; and a sensor holder which is installed adjacent to the lower side of the push rod assembly and is coupled to the linear sensor to process a signal transferred from the linear sensor.

A process tests an operability of a circuit breaker device (18, 20, 34) to establish/sever a connection of two circuit areas (36, 38, 40, 42). The circuit breaker device includes a MOSFET (44) with a source terminal (46) connected with a circuit area, a drain terminal (48) connected with a circuit area, and a gate terminal (50) with a gate voltage applied by an associated gate driver device (52) to switch into a connection switching state connecting the two circuit areas during a connection phase. The gate voltage is monitored during the connection phase, a base voltage being applied to the source terminal or/and to the drain terminal during the connection phase is monitored. If a difference between the gate voltage and the base voltage falls below a predefined reference difference during the connection phase, it is determined that a circuit defect is present in the MOSFET.

The application provide a high-voltage interlock device and a fault detection method thereof. The high-voltage interlock device includes: a first signal detection circuit, configured to collect a first original electric signal from a high-voltage interlock component and convert the first original electric signal into a first sampled signal while ensuring that the high-voltage interlock component is isolated from a fault diagnosis module; a second signal detection circuit, configured to collect a second original electric signal from the high-voltage interlock component and convert the second original electric signal into a second sampled signal while ensuring that the high-voltage interlock component is isolated from the fault diagnosis module; the fault diagnosis module, configured to determine a fault of the high-voltage interlock component according to the first and/or the second sampled signal, under a condition that at least one of the first and the second switch modules is in an OFF state.

The present invention is notably directed to methods for estimating a degradation of an electronically controlled electro-mechanical switch. The methods comprise determining a change of state of the contactor. They also comprise, computing, for each determined change of state, a wear increment W.sub.I of the contactor by: identifying a wear coefficient using a mapping between a last measured current through the contactor and a current range associated with a given wear coefficient; computing the actual wear W.sub.N of the contactor by adding the computed wear increment W.sub.I to a former known wear W.sub.I−1 of the contactor.