Patent ID: 11917740
Assignee: HUNTER INDUSTRIES, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method to power and control a plurality of lighting modules, each lighting module including one or more lights and being serially addressable over a two-wire communication network, the method comprising:
generating, with one or more processors, command and address data comprising an address of a first lighting module and a command to turn ON the addressed lighting module;
with a rectifier circuit, receiving a power signal and forming a rectified power waveform;
with a bridge circuit, receiving the rectified power waveform and the command and address data, and providing, to the two-wire communication network, a data encoded power signal responsive to the command and address data;
monitoring, with current sensing circuitry, the power signal;
receiving, with the one or more processors and after the data encoded power signal is sent over the two-wire communication network, an indication of current associated with the monitored power signal from the current sensing circuitry;
comparing, with the one or more processors, the received indication of the current with a threshold value; and
determining, with the one or more processors and based on the comparison, whether the first lighting module responded to the command.