Analyze The Power Instantly With Black Box Forensics

 

Standard mission-critical power machines have traditionally provided rudimentary data to the user regarding catastrophic events. Some common complaints about this conventional event recording include:

 

1.  Successive events are too far apart in time to be useful;
2.  Event records tend to be vague and lead to more unanswered questions;
3.  Event records only take a snapshot of the actual event and provide no information regarding the status of equipment parameters before and after the event.
4.  Some events are missed entirely.

 

A natural outcome of these shortcomings is that eradication of the root-cause of the alarming event does not occur. The event then systematically becomes an "out-of-the-ordinary" academic acknowledgement. Conventional power event recording schemes do not satisfy the needs of the modern, sophisticated facility engineer who needs "quality" information.

 

To eradicate these problems, LayerZero has borrowed cutting-edge concepts from the aviation industry's "Black Box" principle. The concept, as applied to the eSTS, is simple:

 

1. Provide successive event information with ten microsecond resolution;
2. Provide a brief snapshot of each event with a lead-in for further inquiry; and
3. Provide a real-time status indicator of all machine parameters at the exact instant of each recorded event.

 

A High Level Processor is supplied with a 4 GB compact flash disk. Communication is via fiber optics and the result is a "Black Box" data recorder. Event logs, alarms, diagnostics and Waveform Capture are accessible via a VPN Router that comes standard with each unit. Time-stamping resolution is 10 microseconds; fast enough to catch any mechanical or electrical activity. Each transfer event  as well as transfer-inhibit event is captured and stored on solid state memory in the form of a real-time waveform capture three cycles before and three cycles after an event.

 

 The root cause analysis of the electrical system is facilitated by the Black Box.

 

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