Electrical fault detection for a modular busway

A busway for power distribution to equipment positioned in information technology racks, the busway comprising:

• (a) a plurality of locations in said busway suitably being configured to receive a plurality of detachably engageable taps;
• (b) said busway including a plurality of segments, each of which are detachably engaged with one another, where each of said segments is detachably engaged in an end to end manner to form said busway that is arranged as a straight line, where a first one of said segments has a respective first end and a second end, where a second one of said segments has a respective first end and a second end, where a third one of said segments has a respective first end and a second end, where said second end of said first one of said segments is interconnected with said first end of said second one of said segments, where said second end of said second one of said segments is interconnected with said first end of said third one of said segments, where said first end of said first one of said segments and said second end of said third one of said segments are at opposing ends of the combination of said first segment, said second segment, and said third segment said detachably engaged in said end to end manner to form said busway arranged as said straight line;
• (c) each of said plurality of segments including at least one of said plurality of locations;
• (d) said busway is external to said information technology racks;
• (e) said busway providing power to said information technology racks by respective said taps;
• (f) each of said taps including therein a respective circuit breaker selectively electrically interconnecting a respective electrical interconnection between a respective segment of said busway of a respective one of said information technology racks so that power may be selectively provided from said respective segment to said respective one of said information technology racks based upon the state of said respective circuit breaker, wherein said state includes open and closed, each of said taps including therein a respective first electrical sensor that senses at least one of a voltage level and a current level within of a respective said tap at a first electrical location between said respective circuit breaker and said respective segment of said busway so that when said respective circuit breaker is changed from closed to opened said at least one of said voltage level would remain substantially unchanged while said current level would be substantially zero and so that when said respective circuit breaker is changed from opened to closed said at least one of said voltage level would remain substantially unchanged while said current level would not be substantially zero;
• (g) each of said first electrical sensors providing a first output signal to a computing device;
• (h) said busway including a plurality of second electrical sensors external to any of said taps each of which senses at least one of a voltage level and a current level of said respective segment of said busway at a second electrical location external to said tap, such that said first electrical location is not electrically isolated from said second electrical location by selectively disconnecting said respective circuit breaker;
• (i) each of said second electrical sensors providing a second output signal to said computing device.