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US 8,283,910 B1Granted
Long range phasing beacon
OwnerWalter S. Biererinventor
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Abstract
A long range wireless electrical phasing system using a centrally located beacon to transmit reference phase angle information to any number of locally handheld (Meter Probes) display modules containing a receiver to receive the distant beacon signal and a contact electrode used to contact a local electrical conductor. The display module processes the distant message and local electrical phase information and displays the exact phase angle difference of the local electrical conductor with respect to a distant reference phase.
Claims11
A long range phasing beacon system, comprising:
- a wave shaper that turns an input voltage into a shaped waveform with a rapid rise time;
- a phase angle adjuster for setting a reference phase;
- an auxiliary data module for adding auxiliary data;
- a wave encoder that creates a data stream used to carry at least phase angle information from the shaped waveform and auxiliary data from the auxiliary data module;
- a transmitter that provides radio frequency energy to transmit the data stream created in the encoder;
- and,
- at least one meter probe to receive and display at least the phase angle information received from the transmitter.
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A method of using a long range phasing beacon system, comprising:
- inputting a reference voltage to a wave shaper;
- turning the input voltage into a shaped waveform;
- adjusting the phase angle of the shaped waveform to be set as the reference phase angle;
- providing auxiliary data from an auxiliary data module to an encoder;
- creating a data stream at the encoder which includes at least one of auxiliary data and a shaped waveform input;
- transmitting the data stream from a transmitter;
- receiving the data stream at a meter probe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.