The invention discloses a serial arc-fault circuit
interrupter, comprising a power circuit, a
current sensor, a current sensing circuit, an amplifying and filtering circuit, a
voltage zero-crossing comparison circuit, a
microcontroller, a trip trigger circuit. A
current transformer collects current signals in a circuit; the current signals are converted into
voltage signals through the current sensing circuit, and are input into the
microcontroller through the amplifying and filtering circuit; the
voltage zero-crossing comparison circuit inputs a voltage zero-crossing pulse
signal into the
microcontroller; the microcontroller judges arc emergence through arc characteristics analysis and is disconnected with a
load circuit by the trip trigger circuit. The protection method transforms a one-dimensional
time signal into a two-dimensional
time signal by utilizing short-time
Fourier transform, analyzes changes of fundamental component, even-order
harmonic and odd
harmonic component of eachcyclic wave, extracts and judges the serial arc-fault characteristics. The method has the advantages that multiple characteristics are extracted to realize comprehensive judgment of fault arc, missedtrip and balk generated in serial arc detection in small load are prevented, and the reliability of judgment is improved effectively.