Patent ID: 9459304
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G01R

Claim Text:
1. A method of collecting data for fault predicting for an electrical system having a source line, branch circuits, and loads comprising the steps of: a) installing a plurality of power quality nodes, said plurality of power quality nodes being disbursed about said electrical system on said source line, said branch circuits and said load, each of said power quality nodes configured for sensing voltage and current, a microprocessor, a non-volatile memory, an alarm transmitter/receiver and a data logger transmitter/receiver; b) installing at least one multi-channel recorder, in wireless communication with each of said plurality of power quality nodes; c) installing at least one network server in communication with said multi-channel recorder; d) installing a base computer station in operative communication with said multi-channel recorder and said network server; e) assembling a plurality of data blocks stored on said each of said power quality nodes, wherein each of said plurality of data blocks contains a plurality of recorded parameters; f) further wherein each of said plurality of data blocks has a time frame of 200 ms; and further wherein said data blocks are accumulated continuously such that within each hour 18,000 data blocks are created for each power quality node; and wherein the plurality of recorded parameters includes: