Power Quality

The Fluke 1736 and 1738 Three-Phase Power Loggers built with Fluke Connect® mobile app and desktop software compatibility give you the data you need to make critical power quality and energy decisions in real-time. The ideal test tools for conducting energy studies and basic power quality logging, the 1736 and 1738 automatically capture and log over 500 power quality parameters so you have more visibility into the data you need to optimize system reliability and savings. With the Fluke 1738 Advanced Power Logger you can perform advanced analysis with an enhanced Power Quality Health Summary (EN50160) function that provides you with fast insight into overall electrical system health. The Power Quality Health Summary is an evaluation of the logged data based on detailed power quality measurements and includes viewable event waveform captures so you have even more visibility into the data you need to optimize system reliability and savings.

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An optimized user interface, flexible current probes, and an intelligent measurement verification function that allows you to reduce measurement errors by digitally verifying and correcting common connection errors makes setup easier than ever and reduces measurement uncertainty. Access and share data remotely with your team via the Fluke Connect® app so you can maintain safer working distances and make critical decisions in real-time, reducing the need for protective equipment, site visits and check-ins. You can also quickly and easily chart and graph measurements to help identify issues and create detailed reports with the included Fluke Energy Analyze Plus software package. Optionally, you can create IEEE519 Reports giving you more insight into harmonic levels, voltage and current distortion, and load current (license required).

Other useful features

• Present data locally on the logger, on the Fluke Connect mobile app and desktop software, or through your facility’s Wi-Fi infrastructure
• Measure all three phases and neutral with four flexible current probes (included)
• Power the instrument directly from the measured circuit
• Review measured values during logging sessions and before downloading for real-time analysis
• Includes event waveform snapshot and high-resolution RMS profile with the 1738, along with date, timestamp and severity to capture dips, swells, and inrush currents and help pinpoint potential root causes of power quality issues
• 1738 also provides fast insight into overall electrical system health with a Power Quality Health Summary
• Offers a bright, color touch-screen display for convenient field analysis and data checks
• Helps you capture the right data every time with a quick, guided, graphical user interface
• Reduces uncertainty about your connections with the intelligent verification function
• Allows you to complete field setups through the front panel or the Fluke Connect App on your smartphone
• Provides fully integrated logging with other Fluke Connect-enabled devices to simultaneously log up to two additional measurement parameters on a Fluke Connect wireless digital multimeter or module*
• Comes with Energy Analyze Plus application software that enables you to analyze every detail of energy consumption and power quality health and create automated reports

Log the most common parameters

Designed to measure the most critical three phase power parameters, the 1736 and 1738 can simultaneously log rms voltage, rms current, voltage and current events, voltage and current THD, voltage and current harmonics up to the 50th harmonic, active power, reactive power, power factor, active energy, reactive energy, and more. With enough memory for more than a year of data logging, the 1736 and 1738 can uncover intermittent or hard-to-find issues that might otherwise have been missed.

Analysis and reporting

Capturing logged data is just one part of the task. Once you have the data, you need to create useful information and reports that can be easily shared and understood by your organization or customers. Fluke Energy Analyze Plus software makes that task as simple as possible. With powerful analysis tools and the ability to create customized reports in minutes you’ll be able to communicate your findings and quickly solve problems so you can optimize system reliability and savings.

• Measure key power quality parameters harmonics and interharmonics for voltage and current, unbalance, flicker and rapid voltage changes.
• Measure with premium accuracy rigorous IEC 61000-4-30 Class A Edition 3 standard for ‘Testing and measurement techniques–Power quality measurement methods.’
• One-touch standardized reporting including EN 50160, IEEE 519, GOST 33073 or export data in PQDIF or NeQual compatible format for use with third party software using Fluke Energy Analyze Plus Software.

Class-A compliance for the most demanding power quality tests

The Fluke 1760 Three-Phase Power Quality Recorder is fully compliant to IEC 61000-4-30 Class-A, for advanced power quality analysis and consistent compliance testing. Designed for analysis of utility and industrial power distribution systems, in medium- and low-voltage networks. The Fluke 1760 provides exceptional flexibility with the ability to customize thresholds, algorithms, and measurement selections. The 1760 power recorder captures the most comprehensive details on user-selected parameters; the supplied PQAnalyze application software enables users uses the in depth measurement and produce sophisticated analysis and reports.

Applications

• Detailed disturbance analysis – Perform high-speed transient analysis and uncover root cause of equipment malfunction for later mitigation and predictive maintenance. The fast transient option, with its 6000 V measurement range, allows capture of very short impulses such as capacitor switching and lightning strikes.
• Class-A quality-of-service compliance – Validate incoming power quality at the service entrance. Thanks to Class A compliance, the Fluke 1760 allows undisputable verification. The Fluke 1760 Class A compliance has been independently verified at a world leading power quality laboratory.
• Event correlation at multiple locations – Utilizing GPS time synchronization, users can quickly detect where a fault occurred first, either inside or outside the facility. The accuracy of this time-stamping enables users with multiple 1760s on their network to understand the propagation of events across the network.
• Galvanic separation and DC coupling – Allows complete measurements on dissimilar power systems. For example troubleshoot UPS systems by simultaneously recording the battery voltage and power output.
• Power quality and power load studies – Assess baseline power quality to validate compatibility with critical systems before installation and verify electrical system capacity before adding loads.

Class-A compliance for the most demanding power quality tests

The Fluke 1760 Three-Phase Power Quality Recorder is fully compliant to IEC 61000-4-30 Class-A, for advanced power quality analysis and consistent compliance testing. Designed for analysis of utility and industrial power distribution systems, in medium- and low-voltage networks. The Fluke 1760 provides exceptional flexibility with the ability to customize thresholds, algorithms, and measurement selections. The 1760 power recorder captures the most comprehensive details on user-selected parameters; the supplied PQAnalyze application software enables users uses the in depth measurement and produce sophisticated analysis and reports.

Applications

• Detailed disturbance analysis – Perform high-speed transient analysis and uncover root cause of equipment malfunction for later mitigation and predictive maintenance. The fast transient option, with its 6000 V measurement range, allows capture of very short impulses such as capacitor switching and lightning strikes.
• Class-A quality-of-service compliance – Validate incoming power quality at the service entrance. Thanks to Class A compliance, the Fluke 1760 allows undisputable verification. The Fluke 1760 Class A compliance has been independently verified at a world leading power quality laboratory.
• Event correlation at multiple locations – Utilizing GPS time synchronization, users can quickly detect where a fault occurred first, either inside or outside the facility. The accuracy of this time-stamping enables users with multiple 1760s on their network to understand the propagation of events across the network.
• Galvanic separation and DC coupling – Allows complete measurements on dissimilar power systems. For example troubleshoot UPS systems by simultaneously recording the battery voltage and power output.
• Power quality and power load studies – Assess baseline power quality to validate compatibility with critical systems before installation and verify electrical system capacity before adding loads.

Other useful features:

• Provides uninterrupted power supply (40 minutes) so you’ll never miss important events. Even records the beginning and end of interruptions and outages to help determine the cause
• Provides continuous recording of voltage, current, power P, Q, S, power factor, kWh, flicker, unbalance, frequency, voltage and current harmonics to the 50th/Interharmonics, THD, and mains signaling
• Provides 2 GB data memory to enable detailed, simultaneous recording of numerous power parameters for long periods of time
• Includes comprehensive software that provides trend diagrams for root cause analysis, statistical summaries, report writing, and real-time data monitoring in the online mode
• Allows quick plug and play setup with automatic sensor detection. Sensors are instrument powered, eliminating the need for batteries
• Delivers reliable testing under nearly any conditions with rugged insulated housing and a solid state design that has no rotating components
• Comes with four dual-range flexible current probes (1000 A/200 A AC)

• Automatically measure power and power quality parameters
• At-a-glance power quality health for faster troubleshooting
• Easily view V/A/Hz, power, dips, swells, and harmonics data
• Capture high-speed transients up to 8 kV
• Power directly from measurement circuit without a line cord

The Fluke Norma 6000 Series Portable Wideband Precision Power Analyzers give you more freedom than ever before to make high accuracy power measurements wherever you need to—whether in the lab, or in the field. Designed for portability the lightweight, battery powered Fluke 6000 Series eliminates the need to carry large, fragile, expensive analyzers into the field, allowing you to make measurements directly at the load in nearly any environment. By measuring directly at the load, you can discover how the equipment operates under real-world conditions, with real-world variables, not just at a test bench or in the lab.

Fluke 6003 Power Analyzer

The Fluke 6003 includes three measurement channels which each consist of a voltage and current input making it ideal for three-phase power measurements.

Fluke 6004 Power Analyzer

The Fluke 6004 includes four measurement channels giving it the capability to measure three-phase power and DC power simultaneously to enable real-time inverter efficiency measurements under real-world conditions.

Fluke 6003+ and Fluke 6004+ Power Analyzer

The Fluke 6003+ and 6004+ models both add the capability to measure mechanical parameters such as speed and torque (from separate transducers) to discover the electrical to mechanical efficiency of the load under a variety of typical operating modes.

With the addition of optional measurement accessories, you can even make measurements up to 1,500V DC and 2,000A AC+DC on conductors with a diameter of up to 52mm. The instrument’s compact, battery-powered design combined with a wideband frequency response makes it easier than ever to make measurements on hard to access systems such as inverter drive systems, DC-AC and AC-DC power conversion systems and electric motors without removing them from service. Making these measurements in the field simplifies the troubleshooting and performance measurement processes without sacrificing uptime, giving you more accurate test results that will enable you to discover whether your loads are operating as effectively and efficiently as they should be.

• Highly portable and easily installed in tight spaces—only 9.6 cm thick.
• Operate continuously for up to 10 hours without an external power supply using the 5000mAh Li-ion Internal Battery.
• Measure safely—safety rated for CAT III 1000V, CAT IV 600V environments.
• Measure three phase power and DC output power at the same time with 3 or 4 channel models, with voltage and current inputs on each channel.
• Make mechanical torque and speed measurements using the included inputs and outputs of the Fluke 6003+ and 6004+.
• 0.1% accuracy, 500kHz bandwidth, 200ks/s sample rate so you can rely on the power conversion system measurements you take no matter what distortion may be present.
• USB and RS485 interface and open communication protocol for easy system integration and software platform flexibility.
• Combine two analyzers to enable simultaneous measurement of multiple circuits for even more troubleshooting capability—configurable to 6 or 8 channels using dual analyzer synchronization.
• View critical data in the field on the main display—Meter, Waveform, Harmonics up to the 100th, Vector and Trend.
• Ensure high common-mode rejection and allow flexible configurations according to measurement requirements using the electrically isolated channels.
• User adjustable measurement rate from 100ms to 1s with continuous logging via 32GB of onboard storage.
• Easy in-field set up using the integrated front panel or a remote PC connection (USB or RS485).
• Online measuring, data download and analysis with included PC software (Fluke Power Analyzer Software).
• Full remote control of the connected instrument using Fluke Power Analyzer Software and a local USB or long-distance RS485 connection.

The Fluke VR1710 Power Quality Recorder, is a single-phase, plug-in voltage quality recorder that offers an extremely easy-to-use solution for detecting and recording power quality problems, allowing for immediate action and less downtime. The VR1710 single phase recorder satisfies the needs of maintenance and facilities management personnel in industrial, utilities, and large service organizations where reliable power quality is essential to the operation of the business. Power quality parameters including RMS average, transients, flicker, and harmonics up to the 32nd are recorded using a user-selected average period from 1 seconds to 20 minutes.

Other useful features:

• Offers continuous recording of all values with no gaps to create a complete picture with one instrument
• Measures Min/Max/Average RMS values (1/4 cycle) with time stamp so you can quickly see what happened and when
• Presents actual transient display (>100 μs) with time stamp to help you identify power quality issues quickly with included graphical software
• Records flicker to EN 61000-4-15 and individual harmonic and THD values with trends to help you easily determine if the problem is power quality or equipment related
• Provides statistical analysis of single-phase voltage events. Reduces analysis time by tracking event quantities and magnitudes
• Includes PowerLog software package for quick download, analysis, and automatic reporting