Power Quality

Power Quality is a measure of how well a system supports reliable operation of its loads. A power disturbance or event can involve voltage, current, or frequency. Power disturbances can originate in consumer power systems, consumer loads, or the utility.

What is a Power Disturbance?

Power disturbances are defined in terms of magnitude and duration.

Disturbances range from transients that last for microseconds to outages that continue for hours.

When a power disturbance falls outside operating limits, equipment may be disrupted or damaged.

The Costs of Poor Power Quality Can be Significant!

Lost production: Each time production is interrupted, your business loses profit on product that is not manufactured and sold.

Damaged product: Interruptions can damage a partially complete product, causing the material to be re-run or scrapped.

Energy cost: Electric utilities may charge penalties on poor power factor or high peak demands.

Fluke has solutions to power quality problems

Fluke provides both the knowledge and the tools to help you solve your power quality issues. Fluke power quality seminars are available in both hands-on and online formats.

The Fluke Power Quality Hands-On Seminars will help you learn how to detect, analyze and prevent power quality problems with the right tools and knowledge from Fluke and our training partners. The current class times are 4 hours or 2 days.

Fluke's Online Power Quality Seminars cover a wide range of topics from basic to advanced levels of training. You can even interact with our knowledgeable presenters and ask questions. Online seminar times range from 30 to 60 minutes and cover the following topics:

• Inrush currents, motor and load protection a half-hour discussion addressing the purpose and advantages of long term monitoring, both proactive and reactive, and the reasons some products are better suited than others.
• 6 simple ways to reduce costs through power quality a discussion on the fundamentals of power quality. Learn how to diagnose power quality problems by conducting a systematic power quality survey and how to troubleshoot power quality problems and save money by improving power quality.
• Performing NEC compliant load studies using the Fluke 1735 Learn the purpose and definition of a load study. Learn the requirements of NEC 220.87, how to do a load study using the Fluke 1735, about Power Log and reporting capabilities.

Power quality tools

Fluke offers an extensive range of power quality test tools for troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and long-term recording and analysis in industrial applications and utilities.

Power Quality Troubleshooters

Dedicated power and power quality clamp meters for frontline troubleshooting.

Single-phase and three-phase power quality analyzers for predictive maintenance, quality of service compliance testing and load studies.

Power Quality Loggers

Power loggers for characterizing power quality, conducting load studies and capturing hard-to-find voltage events over a user-defined period of time.

Power Quality Recorders

Advanced power quality recorders for capturing comprehensive details of power disturbances, trend analysis and Class-A 'quality-of-service' compliance testing over a user-defined period of time.

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