PMI View’s live data pages show waveforms, phasors, and tabular values from a connected device, updating as you watch, without interrupting an active recording. During initialization, the live data pages…
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Understanding Load Diversity and Its Effect on Power Quality
Introduction Your home and the office building down the street both run on electricity from the same utility, but they don’t typically use it in the same way at the…
PQ Canvass API Access
Introduction Electric utilities rely on power quality monitoring to maintain grid reliability, meet regulatory requirements, and respond to disturbances across their distribution networks. As monitoring deployments grow — spanning substations,…
Power Quality Focus Areas with Merlin™
Introduction Power quality investigations are often intricate, time consuming, and prone to oversight. Faced with a long duration recording, engineers must sort through an enormous volume of events, trends, and…
Voltage Sag Analysis: Standards, Testing, and Compliance
Voltage sags, short-duration reductions in supply voltage, pose significant challenges to electrical and electronic equipment, leading to malfunctions, shutdowns, and substantial economic losses across industries. IEEE Std 1668-2017 and SEMI…
Why You Should Transition ProVision to PQ Canvass
Introduction If you own a Power Monitor’s recorder you’re probably quite familiar with ProVision. If you aren’t, it’s Power Monitors’ Windows desktop application that lets you manage your PMI recorders,…
Windows PMI View Introduction
Introduction Power Monitors’ Windows PMI View is a desktop app for Windows 10/11 that lets you manage your Power Monitors’ recording devices. The application seamlessly connects to PMI recorders, providing…
Auto-Correction of CT Hookup
Sometimes when hooking up CTs for a device, a user will inadvertently place the CTs in the wrong configuration. Maybe the channel 2 CT was placed on the third phase…
Impact Loading – PQ Canvass
Impact loading occurs from the inrush current of large motors, welding apparatus, electric arc furnaces, or similar loads. The current pulses are less than short circuit values but may be…
Generating IEEE 519 Compliance Reports with PQ Canvass
The explosive growth of modern electronic loads presents a challenge to utilities in the form of waveform distortion. The IEEE 519 standard is an important tool for utilities, providing limits…