In power quality investigations, triggered waveforms often claim the spotlight, but it is the stripchart that tells the story of the entire recording. Reviewing this data manually is tedious, error-prone,…
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Voltage Sag
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…
Riding Through Voltage Sags with the IEEE 1668 Standard
Voltage sags are the most common power quality issue, and also the most costly for industrial power users. It's not practical for a utility to eliminate all sags, so industrial…
Recommendations for Voltage Sags
Voltage sag is one of the most common power quality problems. The consequences for not troubleshooting a voltage sag complaint isn't the resulting damage that can be done to electrical…
Using PMI Boomerangs with an RTAC
Introduction In addition to PMI's cloud-based Canvass system compatibility, Boomerang distribution monitors including a DNP3 port for use in SCADA. Advanced distribution programs such as volt/VAR optimization, DER management, and…
Using Cycle Stripcharts
Stripchart recording is an important tool for analyzing complex data. It provides a visual means to easily digest extensive quantities of recorded information over long time periods. In most cases,…
Quantifying Residential Voltage Sags
Voltage sag complaints are one of the most common in residential applications. Despite complaints, many residential voltage sags are not actually troublesome, or caused by the utility. Quantifying sag events…
Voltage Sag Source: Upstream or Downstream?
The first step in voltage sag mitigation is finding the source of the sag. In a power quality recording, spotting the voltage sag itself is often easy, but determining whether…
Electrical Undervoltage and Power Quality
In this whitepaper, the term undervoltage is explained, some typical causes of undervoltages are given, and the effects of undervoltage on customer loads is described. IEEE 1159-2009, IEEE Recommended Practice…
Analyzing Voltage Sags with RMS Capture
This white paper covers the topic of voltage sags and a sometimes under-used graphing feature in Provision called the RMS Capture graph. The RMS Capture graph can be very revealing…
Voltage Sags and Power Quality
This white paper describes what voltage sag is, some of the most common causes of voltage sag, the adverse effects voltage sags have on end users, and how to monitor…
Motor Start-Up from All Angles
ProVision has a multitude of graphs available that are great for analyzing the various aspects of motor startup and the PQ issues that arise while operating these devices. Using an…
