Load management control apparatus with improved duty cycle operation
First Claim
1. In a load management control apparatus comprising,a plurality of switch means adapted to control individual loads for individual duty cycles of a predetermined off time for each operating time interval,means connected to said switch means for programming the operation of said switch means to select a percentage off time and an operating time interval for certain of said switch means and thus its load,means connected to said means for programming for determining the total percentage of off time of all the loads which are being duty cycled and rounding this number off to the closest whole number, andcontrol means connected to said means for programming for always maintaining the number of loads off the same as said whole number.
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Abstract
A load management control apparatus with an improved duty cycle operation has a programmed means to control the off time for a selected interval of time for several loads. The total percentage of off time of the loads being controlled is summed and the total integer is used by a sequential operational means to maintain that number of load off at all times even if loads which are off on demand limit control are included to make the number.
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1. In a load management control apparatus comprising,
a plurality of switch means adapted to control individual loads for individual duty cycles of a predetermined off time for each operating time interval, means connected to said switch means for programming the operation of said switch means to select a percentage off time and an operating time interval for certain of said switch means and thus its load, means connected to said means for programming for determining the total percentage of off time of all the loads which are being duty cycled and rounding this number off to the closest whole number, and control means connected to said means for programming for always maintaining the number of loads off the same as said whole number.
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2. An improvement in a load management control apparatus having programmable means to duty cycle a plurality of loads in a sequential operation to turn off each load a selected predetermined percentage of the time interval selected for the operation of each load, the improvement comprising,
means to determine the percentage of off time of the time interval of each load which is being duty cycled, means to determine an integer of the total of said percentage of off time of all of said loads being duty cycled, and means to modify the sequential operation of said programmable means to maintain the number of loads, being duty cycled, in an off operation at any one time equal to said integer.
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3. In a load management control apparatus comprising, a plurality of output means each adapted to control an individual load,
sequential operational means connected to said plurality of output means for selectively programming the operation of certain of said output means to turn off certain of said loads in a sequential operation for a predetermined percentage of a predetermined time interval of that load, depending on the particular duty cycle selected for that load, means connected to said operational means for determining the total percentage of off time of the interval of each load of all the loads having a duty cycle program, and means for modifying the sequential operation of said sequential operational means to turn off at all times a number of loads equal to the closest integer of said total percentage.
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