Method and circuit arrangement for measuring in-phase and quadrature components of current in an electrical alternating current power supply
AssigneeFrako, Kondensatoren-und Apparatebau GmbH
InventorsSiegfried Kern, Otmar Glaser
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Abstract
A method and circuit arrangement for measuring in-phase current and quadrature current in an electrical alternating current power supply is disclosed. The invention uses a microprocessor whereby four integral values A.sub.1 through A.sub.4 are combined in such as to allow determination of the in-phase current and the quadrature current. The invention is useful in recording in-phase and quadrature components of current from an alternating current power supply.
Claims7
A circuit arrangement for measuring in-phase and quadrature current in an electrical alternating current power supply comprising:
- first circuit means for generating a first electrical signal proportional to the in-phase and quadrature current of said power supply;
- second circuit means for generating a second electrical signal corresponding to the voltage of said alternating current power supply, said second electrical signal having a predetermined period;
- third circuit means for generating four integral values A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3, and A.sub.4 in response to said first and second electrical signal;
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- fourth circuit means for determining the quadrature and in-phase current from said four integral values wherein said quadrature current is derived from the arithmetic combination B.sub.1 =-A.sub.1 +A.sub.2 +A.sub.3 -A.sub.4 and wherein said in-phase current is derived from the arithmetic combination B.sub.2 =-A.sub.1 -A.sub.2 +A.sub.3 +A.sub.4.
A method for measuring in-phase current and quadrature current in an electrical alternating current power supply, using a signal proportional to the power supply current characterized in that a signal corresponding to the power supply voltage is formed with the power supply period duration T, and that the signal proportional to the power supply current is integrated in four time segments of equal size, that four integral values ##EQU9## are formed, and that the quadrature current and in-phase current are determined by these four integral values, in such a way, that
- (a) in case of a three-phase current power supply having phases L2, L2 and L3 said signal proportional to the power supply current is shunted from phase L1, and that the signal corresponding to the power supply voltage is shunted from the phases L2 and L3 and that the four integral values A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3 A.sub.4 for determining quadrature current according to the equation B.sub.1 =-A.sub.1, -A.sub.2, +A.sub.3, +A.sub.4 L and for in-phase current determination according to the reference B.sub.2 =+A.sub.1, -A.sub.2, -A.sub.3, +A.sub.4 are arithmetically combined,
- and that
- (b) in case of a single phase power supply, the signal proportional to the power supply current and the signal corresponding to the power supply voltage are derived from the same phase, and that said four integral values for determining the quadrature current according to the reference B.sub.1 =-A.sub.1 +A.sub.2 +A.sub.3 -A.sub.4 and for the in-pase current determination according to the equation B.sub.2 =-A.sub.1 -A.sub.2 +A.sub.3 +A.sub.4 are arithmetically combined.
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