Is your facility experiencing premature equipment failures? With the electrical industries mandates to go ‘green’, power monitoring is becoming critical. For industry, reliable power is critical. Interruptions, disturbances and extended outages affect the bottom line and influences morale on the manufacturing floor. Brownouts and blackouts can damage critical electronic components used in modern manufacturing to control machine processes. Careful monitoring of the facilities power is becoming mantra of modern manufacturing and the service business. Can’t sell and and can’t track sales and progress if the computer is down.

Causes of Power Quality Problems in Distribution Systems

What do we need to monitor?
• Voltage Sags
• Capacitor Switching
• Electrical Surges
• Harmonics
• EMI – Electromagnetic Interference
Many systems are vulnerable to sunspot activity as well as aging electrical infrastructure. Equipment can suffer accumulative damage leading to failure when experiencing power anomalies. Outage and surges can close a business for days.

Load Analysis

Power quality monitoring and load analysis are two of the key areas to ensure a clean power supply. What is load analysis? Load analysis is used to determine how many watts each electrical component is consuming during operation and idle of an extended period. Monitoring and load analysis will identify the cause of power system disturbances or interruptions. These techniques will help to determine if it is an internal or grid problem, indicating the need for onsite parallel generating nodes. Studies indicate that 80% of all power quality problems have been traced to inadequate wiring or incorrect grounding or interactive electrical loads on the site. Buildings over 15 years old will be stressed to provide the level of power needed by power hungry electronics and increasingly high density of electrically powered equipment. Well grounded equipment will provide discharge paths for lighting and surge mitigation and provides a zero-voltage reference or equipotential reference point for electrical equipment and circuits. Load analysis will pinpoint deficiencies in the capacity of your internal system. The Electrical Code requires that you do a 30-day load analysis and demand study before adding more equipment. The load study will indicate any overload conditions on a panel. An inclusive load study will also aid in planning expansion of the system, new panels and planning for future equipment installation.

Power Quality Monitoring

Onsite monitoring will provide the following:
• Electrical measurement of watts, volts, amps and power factor.
• Electrical usage charted over time. All the surges, disruptions and power quality.
• Determines and reserve capacity if any.
• A written report allows for future planning of system improvements and introduction of new equipment.

Electrical Testing

Testing will mandate profiling:
• Power conditioner and voltage regulators
• UPS or loads on uninterruptible power supply
• EMI or Electromagnetic interference
• Inverters, transformers and frequency converters
• Generators
• Data line protectors
• Proper grounding and wiring analysis
• Shielding of sensitive equipment
• EMI & RFI filters
It is necessary that testing is comprehensive and that it covers all aspects of the internal power system. Once the health of your system is determined, remedial action can repair and improve your system and the documentation will be valuable for future planning.

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With the addition of so many electronics and digital monitoring and control circuits, the quality of power had become a prime importance in maintaining operations and productivity. Older machinery could soldier on under conditions that will bring modern systems to their knees. Advanced Electric Solutions Corporation offers expert electrical diagnostics as well as identify energy management, usage and savings, electrical power monitoring, logging and chart recording, power systems demand, optimization, generator usage for peak demand reduction, solar and wind power monitoring, intelligent equipment, LED lighting design and savings rebates and much more. Contact us to learn more today!