Apparatus and method for pulse sampling control
OwnerPeter Rubinshteininventor
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Abstract
The present invention proposes a hot surface igniter (HSI) controller which is transformerless and which is capable of delivering power from a 120/240 VAC RMS mains voltage, for example, to a load whose nominal operational voltage is equivalent to 24 VAC RMS, for example, sinusoidal full wave AC Voltage. The controller provides an impulse range which is mainly designed to deliver power to hot surface igniter active loads with sufficient thermionic inertia and mass, and where the real voltage shape of supplied power is unimportant. This is achieved by supplying half-cycle pulses to the HIS that are separated by even number of half-cycles that are not supplied to the HIS. Thus the consecutively applied half-cycles are always of opposing polarity.
Claims7
A method of controlling AC power delivered to a load from a power source where the nominal operational voltage of the load is smaller than the voltage of the power source, said method including the steps of:
- (a) receiving AC power from the power source;
- (b) applying half of a full AC cycle pulse to the load;
- (c) waiting for an even number of half-cycles to pass;
- (d) applying half of a full AC cycle pulse;
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- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) according to a predetermined time wherein a duty cycle can be described by the formula Duty cycle=1/N=t/T=(v/V).sup.2, where:
- 1/N is a duty cycle in %, t—the length of applied AC voltage half cycle, T—the length of missed AC voltage cycles, V—Applied voltage from AC voltage source, v—nominal voltage needed by load.
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