PQ Canvass is Power Monitors Inc.’s newest iteration of web-based power quality analysis software. It builds on the foundation established by Canvass and adds many new features, including variable-interval stripcharts;…
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Introduction to PQ Canvass
Power Monitors has released a new cloud-based software product for power quality analysis, called PQ Canvass. PQ Canvass incorporates the features and convenience of our previous online software, Canvass, many…
Managing Outages with Canvass and PQ Canvass
Responding to outage management is of the utmost importance to any utility, but you can't respond to a voltage interruption that you don't know about. Deploying an Outage Management System…
Smarter PQ Search with AI
This paper introduces an enhancement to PQCanvass: natural language document retrieval powered by vector embedding technology. This feature enables engineers to search Power Monitors Inc.’s white paper library using conceptual…
Live PQ Waveforms in a Web Browser
PQ Canvass is the next generation of online power quality analysis tools provided by PMI. This new cloud service offers enhanced graphing, a full suite of PQ analysis tools, recording-based…
PQ Recording Templates
This whitepaper describes the use and customization of PQ recording templates in PQ Canvass, iPowerPad, and in the ProVision software. PMI recording devices can be initialized with many different configurable…
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,…
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,…
Assessing Impact Loads in PQ Canvass
Impact loads are frequent and very high current surges which are usually greater than the rating of the transformer on which they occur. They present as repeated near-short circuit conditions,…
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…
PQ Trends Electric Vehicle Charging
The rapid deployment of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is reshaping electric distribution systems in North America. This white paper provides a focused technical overview of EV charging technologies, emphasizing…
New ProVision Release for Handling Large PQ Recordings
With the introduction of the cell Guardian, 1 GB of memory in a PQ recorder is increasingly common. Although the resulting large files can provide a wealth of data, they…
