Patent ID: 8605091

Claim:
A system to provide electrical power to at least one external device, the system comprising: a housing configured to have a selected installation orientation chosen from a plurality of possible installation orientations; a power input coupled to the housing and couplable to receive electrical power; at least one power output coupled to the housing and coupled to receive electrical power from the power input, the at least one power output being configured to supply power to the at least one external device; a display non-movably attached to the housing and configured to visually display information in four presentation orientations relative to the housing, each corresponding to at least one of the plurality of possible installation orientations of the housing; an orientation sensor coupled to the housing, at any one time the orientation sensor configured to exist in a particular one of a plurality of states corresponding to the selected installation orientation of the housing; a second sensor coupled to the housing, at any one time the second sensor configured to exist in a particular one of a plurality of states based upon a sensed condition associated with the system; and a microprocessor coupled to the housing, the microprocessor communicatively linked to the orientation sensor to receive input from the orientation sensor based upon the particular state of the orientation sensor, the microprocessor communicatively linked to the second sensor to receive input from the second sensor based upon the particular state of the second sensor, the microprocessor configured to select one of the four presentation orientations for the display based upon the input received from the orientation sensor and to send output to the display to visually display information based upon the input received from the second sensor in the selected one of the four presentation orientations.