Abstract: A generator system includes a generator control for providing electrical power to a main generator. The main generator is mechanically coupled to an electrical power source that provides electrical power to the generator control during operation of the main generator. An arc fault device in electrical communication with the electrical power source electrically isolates the power source from the generator control when an arc fault within the generator control is detected.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling an electronic circuit breaker prevents the circuit breaker from contributing its own delay to a power interruption time window on a load. A monitor coupled to a control processor in the circuit breaker causes the control processor to operate in a low-energy consumption sleep mode if it detects a power interruption. During the sleep mode, the control processor draws current from an energy storage device until the power source is reconnected to the control processor. Because the control processor operation is suspended rather than stopped during the power interruption, the control processor does not need to conduct any preliminary power up operations when power is resumed.

Abstract: A generator feeder fault detection system includes a ground fault detector transformer that monitors the sum of forward and return currents from and to a generator. During normal operation, the sum of the currents in the ground fault detector equals zero. If there is a fault, however, the ground fault detector will detect a non-zero current sum. Because the ground fault detector measures the sum of the currents traveling through it, the current sensor in the detection circuit can be selected to measure small amounts of current and does not need to have a high threshold, even for generators that output high levels of current.