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Networkable power controller
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Inventors: Adamson, Hugh Patrick;
Assignee: Power Circuit Innovations, Inc. (Boulder, CO)
Primary Examiner: Wong; Don
Assistant Examiner: Lee; Wilson
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Merchant & Gould P.C.
A networkable power controller includes a mode selector for selectively conducting of a plurality of input signals to an output of the networkable power controller, where the input signals and the output signals satisfy the same signaling protocol. The networkable power controller may be networked with other networkable power controllers, lighting ballasts and other building automation control devices, and user-controlled voltage selectors to provide a lighting control network. A power controller may include a mode selector that may be used in combination with other control devices or components, including a rotary dimmer control, a digital slide dimmer control, a demand load shedder component, a photometer component, and a communications interface. The communications interface allows digital control of the networkable power controller. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The above and other problems are solved by a networkable power controller that can conduct control signals for controlling an electrical device, such as a ballast of a lighting device, a BACnet device, etc.
The networkable power controller can include multiple inputs, an output, and a mode selector that selects a control signal received at one of the inputs to be conducted to the output.
The inputs and the output support the same signaling protocols so that multiple power controllers may be coupled together to form a network.
That is, the output signal of one power controller, which is configured in accordance with the input signals and the mode selector, may be used as an input signal of a subsequent power controller.
The output control signal can be used to control the power provided to or by a building automation control device in a building, including a lighting ballast or a BACnet device.
Alternatively, the output control signal may control the operation of the building automation control device without directly controlling the power provided to or by the device, such as by including an analog or digital signal that causes the device to internally alter building automation control device's consumption or generation of power.
In addition, a power controller may be powered by power received from one or more ballasts coupled to its output.
In one embodiment, the power is derived from a winding in the power factor circuit of the ballast and passed into the lighting controller through its output port.
A power bus in the power controller transfers the power, received at the controller's output port, to a preceding device, such as a rotary light dimmer control, a demand load shedder, or another lighting controller.
In one aspect of the present invention, a lighting controller, which is an example of a power controller, that controls at least one ballast driving a lighting device is provided.
An output signal line of the lighting controller is adapted to output an output signal satisfying a signaling protocol
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