BCD Electric Blog

Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007

What is a power disturbance?

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.
Power quality tools from Fluke: 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 .