Patent ID: 8624578
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for mapping a phase relationship of power conducted by ones of a plurality of branch circuit conductors, the method comprising the steps of: (a) storing in a memory accessible to a data processing unit an identity of a respective bus in a power distribution panel conductively connected to each of at least four branch circuit conductors, each bus conductively connectable to one of three voltage sources each conducting power of a different phase; (b) storing in said memory a proximity of each of said at least four branch circuit conductors to at least one other of said branch circuit conductors; (c) storing in said memory a magnitude of a current measured in each of said at least four branch circuit conductors; (d) said data processing unit executing an instruction to designate: (iii) said first branch circuit conductor of said at least four conductors as a conductor of single phase power if said first branch circuit conductor is not designated as a conductor of one of two-phase power and three-phase power; and