Using the Fluke 6100A Electrical Power Standard to test the Fluke 430 Series Power Quality Analyzers

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Diagnosing power quality problems can test the ability of any technician. A host of factors—including harmonics, sags and swells, spikes, flicker, phase imbalance and more—can impair power quality, sometimes simultaneously.

And yet, because clean power is essential to keeping systems of all kinds up and running, accurate power quality analysis has never been more important.

Writing in EDN (March 2004), contributing editor David Marsh said “power quality rather than availability has become the dominant concern of electronics designers and systems engineers alike—and, ironically, the profusion of electronic systems is the prime cause.”

That’s why Fluke has been working for years to understand the factors that determine power quality. Now Fluke is putting that knowledge to work, creating sophisticated instruments that replicate power quality problems and introducing test tools that help technicians find and solve power quality issues.