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Power quality monitoring and analysis

This course teaches engineers and technicians how to diagnose power quality problems and perform measurements of sags, swells, voltage transients, harmonic distortion and voltage flicker. The in-depth course reviews how to use a variety of popular portable and panel-mount power monitor models. Examples of real-world experiences will supplement the theory to enhance the understanding of the material presented. 

Target audience

This training program is recommended for any field service engineer, field service technician, power systems engineer or power systems automation engineer who performs power quality surveys or collects data for power quality investigations.

Learning objective

Find and pinpoint power quality issues, measure them and use proven methods for correcting them.

Course abstract

This course teaches engineers and technicians how to diagnose power quality problems and perform measurements of sags, swells, voltage transients, harmonic distortion and voltage flicker. This course will review using a variety of popular models of portable and panel-mount power monitors. Examples of real-world experiences will supplement the theory to enhance the understanding of the material presented.

Course options

Full course

  • 8 hours, 0.7 CEUs
  • Location: Microsoft Teams
  • To receive CEUs, attendees must remain for the entire course
  • Tuition $550 USD

 Full course

Deep dive into power fundamentals. This course will identify disturbances on power distribution systems including harmonics, transients and grounding.

Course topics

  • Power quality fundamentals — disturbances, harmonics, transients, grounding, example waveforms, equipment tolerances, ITIC, IEEE 519-2014 and IEC standards
  • Techniques for identifying and analyzing power quality problems
  • Actual case studies and their real-world solution
  • Build your own equipment tolerance diagram
  • Monitoring transients, sub-cycle disturbances and flicker
  • Monitoring harmonics
  • Evaluating power quality problems using power monitor data
  • Special considerations for making measurements in high resistance grounded distribution systems and delta-wye power transformer circuits

Course materials/activities

  • 342-page attendee manual
  • Example exercises
  • Real-world examples
  • Question and answer session
  • Graded, in-depth knowledge check