The Seeker+ runs a power quality survey right out of the box. Mount it, energize it, and it detects the circuit hookup and logs every measure it supports, each aggregated…
Flicker White Papers
Power quality white papers on Flicker.
20 white papers in Flicker
Understanding Voltage Swells
If you were to ask a handful of customers what they consider a ‘power surge’ to be, you would get a multitude of answers — anything from a lightning strike…
Event Timing in Power Quality Investigations
In the complex landscape of electrical distribution, identifying the origin of power quality disturbances requires more than just high-speed sampling; it demands precise temporal synchronization across the entire monitoring network.…
Heat Pumps and the Winter Peak
As American homes shift from gas furnaces to heat pumps, the load that used to burn gas now arrives at the residential transformer — in winter, at the coldest hours,…
Merlin™ Document Writer
The Merlin™ Document Writer turns a completed power quality analysis into finished, shareable documents: customer letters, executive summaries, technical reports, regulatory responses, and more. It works from reusable templates that…
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…
Analyzing Motor Startups with the Bolt
Induction motors are ever popular in today’s world and can be found in most areas of life — industrial, agricultural, and even residential settings. These motors can have high inrush…
Residential Interharmonics
Interharmonics are produced when loads draw current asynchronously to the utility voltage. Traditional loads include arc furnaces, welders, and AC-DC converter systems where the loads are fed from DC supplies.…
Dimming Residential Lighting
Dimmer switches for residential lighting applications have been available for decades. They are fairly ubiquitous in many homes and are often used for mood lighting and energy savings. The technology…
Interharmonic Analysis with Python
Traditional harmonic analysis in electrical systems has revolved around looking at the spectral content on, well, the magnitudes of harmonic frequency components. The IEEE 519 specification provides guidelines for measuring…
Understanding IEEE 1159 Definitions
It is very important to have recommended guidelines and practices in place regarding power quality monitoring with the use of consistent terminology and definitions of power quality phenomena. This is…
Flicker Investigation Strategy
Flicker is defined as fluctuation or wavering in visible light intensity due to voltage variations. These variations in voltage are caused by fluctuations in the load through the system source…