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Power Quality tools
for industrial and
commercial applications.
Troubleshooters
Recorders
Loggers
Power quality overview
What is power quality?
How reliably can your systems
operate their loads? That is
the essence of power quality.
Power disturbances can involve
voltage, current, or frequency
and typically manifest as dips,
swells, harmonic distortion,
unbalance, flicker, and transients. These problems can orig-
inate in your own power
system
or from the utility. Defined in
terms of magnitude and duration, power disturbances can
last microseconds, or involve
outages of hours or more.
The costs of poor power quality
The increasing cost of electrical
energy is driving industries to use
energy as efficiently as possible. Fluke
power and energy measuring tools are
a vital component in gaining control
of those costs. The traditional way of
reducing energy usage is monitoring
and targeting (M & T); Monitoring and
targeting determines when and where
energy is being used, and by doing so
discovers whether or not that energy
is being used effectively. Examples
of this include comparing building
occupancy with energy profiles.
Simple things like ensuring lighting
and heating systems are not being operated when a building is unoccupied
can create significant savings. Other
examples of energy waste include the
powering of machinery and plants
when no production is taking place,
and leaving equipment in standby
mode for extended periods of time.
The power and energy logging capabilities in Fluke Power Quality tools
enable the user to monitor and target
energy usage to identify these savings
opportunities.
Another way of determining whether
or not electrical equipment is operating efficiently is to identify potential
power quality issues. Poor power quality is expensive. First and foremost, it
pushes up your energy costs both from
excess power usage, and in penalties
your utility may assess for poor power
factor or high peak demands.
Poor power quality also takes a toll
on equipment, increasing the cost of
maintenance and repairs. Premature
equipment failures or damage caused
by power problems result not only in
the expense of replacing the equipment itself, but also in associated
labor costs for diagnosis and repair.
When equipment is not operating
due to unscheduled downtime, productivity drops and process consistency suffers or fails, which in turn leads
to product waste. Fluke’s Power Quality
tools provide the means to discover
the source and magnitude of power
quality issues allowing savings opportunities to be identified and capitalized upon. Taking these capabilities
one step further, the Fluke 430 Series
II Power Quality and Energy Analyzers will quantify the actual fiscal cost
of wasted energy due to poor power
quality, ultimately saving money in
terms of your energy bill and the
effects of unplanned downtime.
How do you know you have
power quality problems?
You’ll easily recognize the symptoms:
flickering lights, power outages,
nuisance tripping of breakers, PLCs
and variable speed drives. Equipment
such as motors and transformers will
run hot or noisy. Some problems are
more subtle such as poor computer
performance, causing lock-ups and
data loss.
All of these problems
drive up your utility bills and drive
down efficiency.
Where do power quality
problems originate?
You might not realize that more than
80 percent of all power quality problems originate within your facility.
Large equipment starting-up or
shutting down, improper wiring and
grounding, and overloaded circuits
or harmonics are just a few of the
culprits. Less than 20 percent of power
problems originate with the utility
transmission and distribution system.
Lightning strikes, equipment failure,
accidents, and weather conditions
all adversely affect the utility. Neighboring businesses, and normal
operation of utility equipment can
also affect the quality of power deliv-
ered to your facility.
Take a pro-active approach
You have the power to improve power
quality. Your frontline of defense is
regular and frequent inspection of your
facility with good maintenance practices, using the right inspection equipment. That’s where Fluke can help.
Out-of-the-box solutions for energy
optimization and power quality
Fluke tools will help you troubleshoot,
record, and analyze power quality and
energy parameters with speed and
confidence.
• Get detailed information
• Locate a variety of disturbance sources
• Correctly diagnose problems
• Prevent problems
Why use one?
When?
Who?
Troubleshooters
These instruments include a live
display when immediate access to
the diagnostic information is needed.
Whenever a recurring problem
exists (such as overheating
transformers and motors, and
nuisance tripping of breakers).
On-site electrician or electrical
technician
Every Fluke energy optimization and
power quality tool is a solution
beginning with an intuitive user interface that makes advanced features
easy to access. Flexible and powerful
software is included with each tool, at
no extra cost.
Loggers
Loggers are the basic tools for creating energy usage profiles used in
monitoring and targeting. You can
also use a power quality logger to
validate voltage quality and look for
general trends in the power quality.
When you need to know the loading
on a system, or to understand the
general quality of service.
Power quality specialist, on-site
electrician or electrical technician,
engineer facilities technicians and
high-end electrical contractors, commissioners
Fluke offers a comprehensive line
of troubleshooters, power and energy
loggers, and recorders to handle a
broad range of power quality applications. But how do you know which
tool is right for which job? Use the
quick reference guide below to identify
the right tool for the problems you’re
experiencing.
Recorders
Many problems can’t be found
immediately, especially those caused
by different loads interacting. Use
these instruments to record indepth
voltage and current information over
time, so you can better diagnose and
resolve problems.
When intermittent voltage
disturbances or high-speed
transients cause problems.
R&D engineer, facility manager,
plant manager, electrician
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