User:PowerSight/Summit Technology

Summit Technology, Inc.

Website:  www.powersight.com

Summit Technology, Inc, is an electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Walnut Creek, Ca., United States. It manufactures, markets, and designs industrial electrical test meters and instruments, energy and demand analyzers, harmonic analyzers, power quality analyzers, power meters, data loggers and power monitors.

Summit Technology, Inc. is the manufacturer of the PowerSight family of portable electric power analyzers for energy and power analysis. They can be used for analyzing all types of electrical systems including three-phase, two-phase, single-phase, 4 wire delta, open delta, 2CT/2PT, DC, 50Hz, 60Hz, and 400Hz systems. They are in use by utilities, electrical contractors, electrical test engineers and plant & facility engineers all over the world (including The South Pole).

The PowerSight meter family comprises the following:

PS250 and PS2500 Power Loggers

PS3000 and PS3500 Energy Analyzers

PS4000 and PS4500 Power Quality Analyzers

[] Power Measurements

PowerSight meters and power analyzers measure these aspects of power:

RMS voltage

RMS current

Frequency (Hz)

Watts (W)

Apparent Power (VA)

Reactive Power (VAr)

Power factor

Energy (kWh)

Harmonic spectrum and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) to 50th harmonic.

Voltage fluctuations, voltage disturbances, voltage sags, voltage dips, voltage brownouts

Voltage surges, voltage swells

Voltage transients, impulses, peak voltage of impulsive transients.

High frequency noise.

PowerSight meters main features

PowerSight meters can be used for spot checks similar to a multimeter, real-time meter values are displayed in the meter window. Power Quality: The PS4000 and PS4500 Power Quality Analyzers also measure power quality events such as sags (dips), swells, and transients (impulses) as brief as 8us.

The distinctions of the PowerSight range of meters are:

Portability: All models weigh less than 2 pounds (less than 1kg) and fit comfortably in one hand. Their rechargeable batteries can last for many hours.

Ease of Use: The instruments incorporate automatic identification of current probes, and algorithms that check monitoring connections and advise of errors to avoid wasted surveys due to incorrect connections.

Safety: The PS2500, PS3500 and PS4500 meters are CAT-IV safety rated, the highest safety rating for hand-held test equipment.

Wireless Communications: The PS2500, PS3500 and PS4500 meters communicate to a PC via Bluetooth wireless.

Data Storage: The PS2500, PS3500 and PS4500 incorporate a removable SD memory card slot for data storage to 2GB.

Data Logging: PowerSight meters can log data for up to months at a time.

PC Software: Data can be downloaded to a PC to view graphical plots, waveforms and summaries and to generate a report.