Revenue class power meter with frequency rejection
First Claim
1. A revenue class power meter comprising;
- a plurality of sensors configured to be coupled with a plurality of corresponding power conductors, wherein each of the sensors are operative to sense a power parameter of electrical energy present in the corresponding power conductors and generate respective input signals representative of a respective sensed power parameter;
a plurality of transducers coupled with the respective sensors, the transducers operative to generate a voltage representation of the respective sensed power parameter;
a plurality of filters coupled with the respective transducers, the filters operative to attenuate high frequency signal components about 1 kHz greater than the highest frequency desired to be measured , wherein each of the filters are configured to provide a predetermined signal propagation delay, signal gain and corner frequency that are substantially the same for all of the filters;
a revenue class metering module configured to receive the input signals, wherein the revenue class metering module is operative to generate revenue accurate power consumption information based on the received input signals; and
a power quality metering module coupled with the filters and configured to receive the filtered input signals, wherein the power quality metering module is operative to generate power quality information based on the received filtered input signals.
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Abstract
A power meter for measuring power parameters on one or more electrical power lines/loads is configured to include a revenue class metering module and a power quality metering module. The revenue class metering module and the power quality metering module may use the same measured voltage and current signals to generate revenue accurate power consumption information and power quality information, respectively. The power meter may also include a plurality of filters configured to attenuate high frequency signals included in the voltage and current signals. Each of the filters may be configured with a corner frequency, gain and signal propagation delay that is substantially equal. The filtered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the revenue class metering module, and the power quality metering module to generate revenue accurate power consumption information and power quality information, respectively. Alternatively, the filtered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the power quality metering module to generate power quality information, and unfiltered current and voltage signals may be received and processed by the revenue class metering module to generate revenue accurate power consumption information.
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45 Claims
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1. A revenue class power meter comprising;
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a plurality of sensors configured to be coupled with a plurality of corresponding power conductors, wherein each of the sensors are operative to sense a power parameter of electrical energy present in the corresponding power conductors and generate respective input signals representative of a respective sensed power parameter; a plurality of transducers coupled with the respective sensors, the transducers operative to generate a voltage representation of the respective sensed power parameter; a plurality of filters coupled with the respective transducers, the filters operative to attenuate high frequency signal components about 1 kHz greater than the highest frequency desired to be measured , wherein each of the filters are configured to provide a predetermined signal propagation delay, signal gain and corner frequency that are substantially the same for all of the filters; a revenue class metering module configured to receive the input signals, wherein the revenue class metering module is operative to generate revenue accurate power consumption information based on the received input signals; and a power quality metering module coupled with the filters and configured to receive the filtered input signals, wherein the power quality metering module is operative to generate power quality information based on the received filtered input signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A revenue class power meter comprising:
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a circuit operative as an analog filter stage to filter an input signal, the input signal representative of a measurable power parameter presentable on a power conductor; a processor coupled with the circuit; a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of instructions, the processor operative to execute instructions to form a digital filter stage to digitally filter the input signal; wherein the digital filter stage in combination with the analog filter stage are operative as a multi-stage low pass filter to reject high frequency signal components included in the input signal; a revenue class metering module configured to also receive the input signal, wherein the revenue class metering module is operative to generate revenue accurate power consumption information based on the input signal; and a power quality metering module configured to receive the input signal, wherein the power quality metering module is operative to generate power quality information based on the received input signal. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method of filtering in a revenue class power meter, the method comprising:
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providing a first input signal on a first channel and a second input signal on a second channel; filtering the first input signal with a first filter included in the first channel and filtering the second input signal with a second filter included in the second channel; maintaining a non-linear constant phase shift of the filtered first input signal and a non-linear constant phase shift of the filtered second input signal to be about the same; generating a revenue quality power consumption measurement with a revenue class metering module based on the first input signal and the second input signal; and generating power quality information with a power quality metering module based on the first filtered input signal and the second filtered input signal. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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