Monitoring the System

With the ever changing electrical industry, monitoring power supply and power quality are critical to ensuring optimal performance of power systems.

Monitoring can provide information about power flow and demand, as well as the quality of the power, often rich in harmonics. It can be a vital diagnostic tool, identifying problem conditions on a power system before they can cause disturbances or interruptions.

Power System Analysis is a technique employed by HVMS in which a multitude of power measurements are analysed and recorded to identity any type of disturbance to which a supply could be subjected.

Capable of analysing three-phase systems as well as single-phase systems, very little is omitted from our spectrum. Frequency, VAR, VA, VOLT (true RMS), AMPS (true RMS), Current Crest Factor and more readings are available at the touch of a button.

As our modern equipment is portable and manufactured from insulated materials, if necessary it can be connected to a panel and left to monitor a supply system for several weeks, without affecting the circuits or causing disturbance to the system.

Commonly used to detect problems in distribution network systems, clients regularly employ our services and equipment on the following:

• Measuring harmonic distortion on voltage and current waveforms on all types of equipment.
• Measuring efficiency of motor control centres.
• Verifying anticipated energy savings of lighting retrofits.
• Measuring power factor, determining if a system is capacitive or inductive.
• Diagnosing power related equipment performance problems.
• Diagnosing false tripping of breakers.
• Detecting, recording and analysing transient effects on critical loads.

Contact us to discuss your requirements.

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