Power Quality for Reliable Power Meters Inc. Users Training

User training for electricians, facility maintenance technicians, and facility engineers that have some experience with RPM instruments. This course is designed for those students who have the day to day responsibility for maintenance or construction of today’s high technology buildings and who are responsible to documents or troubleshoot the power quality at the point of use or from the utility. It is a 1-day class for facilities or engineering staff to advance the knowledge and skills of the RPM user. The students should have a completed Basic RPM user class or have 6 months experience using the RPM. In addition they should have an electrical background, have completed apprenticeship or technical school and be familiar with basic PC operation, MS Windows, MS Word and MS Excel.

• The economics of Power Quality
• The categories and the sources of the Power Quality problems.
• The economic choices for solving the problems
• The changing technology and sensitivity of loads.
• The changing power quality characteristics of the electrical supply.
• The changing economics of Power Quality.

• Installation considerations, power type, location, monitor period, # of monitors.
• Measurement details and calculation details of the Power Recorder.
• Determining the direction of the source of voltage sags.
• Determining the direction of the harmonic source.

• Voltage sags and surges.
• Voltage transients
• Voltage waveshape disturbance events
• Voltage imbalance, Current imbalance
• Harmonics, THD, Vthd and Ithd. Calculating TDD
• Flicker
• Ground current

• Using PAS software to report on each Power Quality parameter.
• Typical limits and ranges of unacceptable power quality for each parameter.
• Characterizing the site from the PAS.
• Writing a report with PAS and MS word. Publishing the graphs and explanations.
• Writing a report with Report writer, changing a report written with Report Writer.
• Polling.
• Review and practical session

• Importing the PAS databases from multiple sessions and multiple monitors.
• Setting Cbema thresholds
• Changing Current and voltage ranges in Scenario

• Using the CBEMA or ITIC curves to define and describe Voltage events.
• Voltage wave anomaly analysis
• Using Scenario to display waveform anomalies.
• Harmonics and Flicker
• Voltage and current imbalance

• Evaluating waveforms and their affect on typical sensitive equipment

• Sensitive loads and the PQ parameters
• Harmonic generating loads
• Loads sensitive to voltage waveform events
• Loads sensitive to harmonics
• Loads sensitive to voltage sags

• Power Quality Case studies I
• Power Quality Case studies II
• Voltage sags sources and their signatures.