Patent ID: 7019495

Claim:
In a system wherein at least two sources of electric power are connected in parallel, each source of electric power having associated with it a regulator, each regulator for producing a regulating signal for its associated source of electric power, one of the regulators operating as a master regulator and at least one of the regulators operating as a follower regulator, a method for controlling the sources of electric power comprising: sensing an output with the master regulator of a source of electric power; generating a regulating signal for regulating the source of electric power associated with the master regulator based on the sensed output; determining a percentage of maximum output for the source of electric power associated with the master regulator; sending a instruction representing the percentage of maximum output from the master regulator to the follower regulator; sensing at least one operational characteristic for each source of electric power associated with the follower regulator; determining a regulating signal with the follower regulator for producing the percentage of the maximum output for the source of electric power associated with the follower regulator based on the instruction from the master regulator and the operational characteristic.