Combo afci/gfci with single test button

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H01H 71/04 (2006.01) H01H 83/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2305910

A combination AFCI/GFCI includes a single test button which when pushed, tests both the arc fault and ground fault detection circuitry and the circuit interrupter. Closing the test button causes a simulated ground fault and enables a signal steering circuit. The steering circuit redirects the ground fault detector output to as arc fault simulator circuit which produces a simulated arcing pulses that are coupled, preferably by way of an extra winding, to an arc fault sensor transformer. The arc fault detector senses the arc fault simulator pulses coupled to the sensor transformer and, if everything is operating normally, triggers a switching device such as an SCR which activities a circuit interrupter. In this way, both the ground fault circuit interrupter and arc fault circuit interrupter functions are tested simultaneously, and the test is initiated by a single test button. When the circuit interrupter is not in the test mode, the steering circuitry is disabled and either a ground fault or an arc fault or both will independently activate the switching device and the circuit interrupter.

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