Datasheet

STPM10 Theory of operation
Doc ID 17728 Rev 4 23/53
Equation 1
EnergyCH1 - EnergyCH2 > K
CRIT
(EnergyCH1 + EnergyCH2)/2;
where K
CRIT
can be 12.5 % or 6.25 %.
The detection threshold is much higher than the accuracy difference of the current channels,
which should be less than 0.2 %, but, some headroom should be left for possible transition
effect, due to accidental synchronism of actual load current change with the rhythm of taking
the energy samples.
The tamper circuit works if the energies associated with the two current channels are both
positive or negative, if the two energies have different sign, the tamper is on all the time
however, the channel with the associated higher power is selected for the final computation
of energy.
When internal signals are not good enough to perform the calculations, i.e. line period is out
or range or ΔΣ signals from analog section are stacked at high or low logic level, or no load
condition is activated, the tamper module is disabled and its state is preset to normal.
7.9.1 Detailed operational description
The meter is initially set to normal state, i.e. tamper not detected.In this condition the
primary channel is selected for final integration of energy. In such state the values of both
load currents should not differ more than the accuracy difference of the channels does.
Sixty-four periods of line voltage is used as a tamper checking period.
After 24 periods of line voltage two internal signals MUX and INH are changed in order to
enable secondary current channel and to freeze the last power and RMS values of primary
current channel. The following 16 periods of line frequency are used for tamper detection
integration. During this gap, the final energy calculation does not use the signal from
selected channel but the frozen values.
Four line periods after the INH switch, the integration of power from secondary current
channel is started and lasts four periods. Additional four line periods later MUX signal is
switched back to primary current channel and the integration for tamper detection is started.
The timings of MUX and INH signals are shown in Figure 18 below.
Figure 18. Timings of tamper module - primary channel selected
MUX Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 1 Ch 1
INH
Tamper power integrators BA
Cycles 444424 24
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