Eaton Launches Power Xpert Power Quality Meters

Eaton Corp. has launched the Power Xpert™ 4000/6000/8000 meter series - a new line of next-generation power quality meters that monitor, record and analyze critical electrical patterns. By analyzing intricate patterns of higher order harmonics, voltage fluctuations and transient over voltages, Eaton's new technology helps operators understand electric environmental conditions, pinpoint electrical problems, ascertain proper levels of power quality and optimize energy use. The end result is a more efficient, less costly business operation.

"Our goal when designing the Power Xpert 4000/6000/8000 meter series was to demystify the process of power management," said Brandon Ekberg, business manager, Software and Meter Products, Eaton Corp.. "Our power quality meters allow operators to take highly specialized data and convert it into useful information that is available locally and over the Internet, without needing an outside consultant to decipher the information and make it useful."

The Power Xpert™ 4000 Meter provides core functions for monitoring power consumption and power quality. A sampling capability of 1,024 samples per cycle produces extremely accurate measurement of harmonics and other power events.

Options can be added to suit specific customer requirements, such as cards for Ethernet, Internet and Web communications, additional inputs/outputs and a large LCD display that enables viewing a sub-network of up to 16 meter base modules.

The Power Xpert™ 6000 Meter adds another level to the sampling speed of 1,024 samples per cycle for extremely accurate measurement of harmonics, flicker, transients and other events. Local LCD graphic display module and the Web interface plot these events against an industry standard ITIC curve. Optional 512MB compact flash card provides ample mass memory storage for waveform captures, which can be easily emailed as attachments, and other event data.

Finally, the Power Xpert™ 8000 Meter is the premier power quality instrument within the product line. Samples at 6 MHz - 100,000 samples per cycle. This extremely fast rate provides a sample on each channel every 166 nanoseconds (six samples every millionth of a second, across three input channels and neutral-to-ground).