The 430 Series II helps facilities reduce electrical power consumption and improve the performance and lifespan of electro-mechanical equipment by providing the return on investment justification to mitigate power quality distortion.
Previously, only experts could calculate how much energy was being wasted due to power quality issues. Utilities could calculate the cost but the required measurement process was beyond the reach of average electricians.
With the patented Unified Power function of the 430 Series II, electricians, utility technicians, electrical engineers, field service technicians and energy consultants can automatically determine how much power is being wasted and calculate exactly what the extra consumption costs with a single handheld tool.
In particular, the 430 Series II power quality analysers lets facilities assess the impact of new energy-efficient, electronically-driven systems from lighting to motor controls to HVAC.
While these new models consume less energy as individual installations, they increase the level of power quality disturbance in the overall electrical system, increasing waste energy due to harmonics and reducing the total potential energy savings. The Fluke 430 Series II calculates the monetary cost of that waste energy.
As the most popular three-phase power quality analysers on the market because of their simultaneous display-and-record capabilities, the updated 430 Series II models feature three new measurement functions as well as hardware, software and firmware improvements.
New models have up to 32 GB (8 GB standard) memory, a swappable SD memory card and USB connectivity for longer power, energy logging and faster data download.
Screen quality and battery life are both improved and the accompanying software has been redesigned to give users more options to analyse both power quality and power consumption.
Both models are fully compliant with the international IEC 61000-4-30 Class-A standard. Each one can monitor systems with up to ten power quality parameters on one screen and can record up to 150 parameters on four phases simultaneously, in accordance with the EN50160 standard, and are safety rated 600 V CAT IV/1000 V CAT III.
From an algorithm first developed at the University of Valencia Polytechnic as an extension to the IEEE standard 1459, the patented Unified Power function on the 430 Series II was developed in cooperation between Fluke Corporation engineers and University of Valencia scientists.
