Patent ID: 11914347
Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A protection system comprising:
an input base comprising a plurality of input circuits;
a controller base comprising a plurality of controllers, wherein each controller of the plurality of controllers is configured to execute one of a first voting logic associated with a first safety architecture of the protection system and a second voting logic associated with a second safety architecture of the protection system, the input base being coupled to the controller base; and
an output base comprising a plurality of output circuits,
wherein the input base, the controller base and the output base comprise a plurality of processing channels releasably coupled to the protection system, wherein each processing channel of the plurality of processing channels comprises an input circuit coupled to the input base, a controller coupled to the controller base and an output circuit coupled to the output base, and wherein the protection system is configured to:
receive a selection of the first safety architecture based on selection of the first voting logic;
alter, based on the received selection, a number of processing channels of the plurality of processing channels of the protection system to operate in a first configuration associated with the first safety architecture, wherein the number of processing channels is different between the first configuration for the first safety architecture and a second configuration for the second safety architecture; and
operate in the first configuration associated with the first safety architecture.