I want to commend you for an excellent name... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Kunde, > Brian > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Worst Case AC Power Conditions > > Greetings, > > 1. Can anyone provide specifications for a "worst case" real world AC > power line condition in which an apparatus is expected to operate > properly in (pass/criteria A)? This would encompass a combination of > harmonics, voltage variations, frequency variations, etc..
Several utilities have published specs on this (google is your friend). Pacific Gas&Electric published a "Voltage Tolerance Boundary" paper, where the reference standard was ANSI C84.1. > 2. Also, if anyone has a program for a California Instrument CTS > system with a 5000ix power supply that could test for a > "worst case" AC > line condition, that would be helpful. I have heard that some > companies > have developed such a custom program to simulate poor power conditions > from different parts of the world. Such a program would > operate with the > the provided CIgui32 program. I am partial to Elgar, Agilent, and perhaps Chroma instruments, and would rather not say anything further on the list. > > 3. Can anyone recommend an AC Power Line analyzer that we can just > plug-in and it will analyze the AC power conditions at different > customer locations? Then we could take the results and program our > 5000ix power supply to simulate those conditions in our lab. I have had good experiences with Agilent 681x series instruments. > Thank for any help or advice you can offer. > The Other Brian. luck, yet another Brian - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
