| Power Quality Tools
Productivity is the key to survival in today's globally competitive environment and poor power quality can be devastating to a facility's operation. Power quality problems can cause processes and equipment to malfunction or shutdown and the consequences can range from excessive energy costs to complete work stoppages.
Fluke's power quality instruments can help you uncover hidden costs, protect equipment from damaging conditions, reduce unscheduled downtime and eliminate costly electric consumption penalties.
Common Uses
Fluke's power quality instruments provide insight into your power quality system and allow you to pinpoint problems quickly and easily. Critical measurements for increasing productivity include voltage unbalance, harmonic distortion, increasing phase current, voltage sags, peak demand, and power factor. Detecting these problems early can help you to extend the lives of equipment such as 3-phase motors and transformers and reduce related downtime.
When you consider all these costs in addition to the opportunity to eliminate electric consumption penalties, it is easy to see that including power quality in your predictive maintenance schedule can significantly increase productivity.
Application- Harmonic Distortion
Harmonic Distortion is one of many predictive maintenance applications of power quality. Harmonic distortion is a normal consequence of a power system supplying electronic loads such as computers, variable frequency drives, electronic lighting ballasts, and control systems. Harmonic distortion can cause high neutral current, damaging heat in motors and transformers and reduced efficiency. Fluke power quality instruments can be setup to measure harmonic distortion of critical equipment in minutes, helping you to pinpoint the issue before it results in costly equipment problems.
Please see the Fluke application notes "The Costs of Poor Power Quality" and "Six Ways to Reduce Costs with the 434 Power Quality Analyzer" | 
