Portable Power Meters

Quickly collect data for decision making

Our portable meters are a cost-effective solution for quickly gathering power quality data such as transients, harmonics, flicker and sag/swell, as well as energy data.

A Quasar portable meter enables you to:

Receive insights into your electrical system
Identify issues and load profile recording over time
Obtain trusted data from a 0.1S accuracy meter
Save time with simple installation

Take the first step to improve your power quality

Before you can improve your power quality, you need to measure it.

Our portable meters gather a variety of power quality data including harmonics, high-speed transients, flicker and event location (upstream or downstream).

By recording these events and their locations, you’ll be able to more effectively put in place permanent solutions to mitigate issues and monitor your system moving forward.

Person viewing Power Monitoring Expert dashboards on a computer screen

Viewing the data collected

Once the portable meter is installed, the data will immediately get sent to Power Monitoring Expert (PME) software that is hosted by Quasar. You will receive a login to PME and a training session on how to access and interpret data, and then at any time you will be able to access PME to view your dashboards and reporting.

Once your hire period is finished, you’ll meet with our team to discuss the data collected and any issues that were uncovered.

The PME dashboards and reports you’ll receive access to

During your portable meter hire period, you’ll be able to remotely access the following PME dashboards and reports:

Dashboards, Trends and Alarms

Power Quality Events
Power Factor
Power Quality Rating
Power Quality Events Location (upstream or downstream)
Likely Impact of Power Quality Events
Range of Harmonics Measurements
Energy & Demand
Waveform Captures of Power Quality Events

Reports

Power Quality Report
Power Quality Event Reports including Waveforms
Load Profile Report
Calendar Trend Month
Calendar Trend Week
EN 50160 Compliance Checking Report
IEEE 519 Compliance Checking Report

Inside the Portable Meter

The portable meter contains an ION9000T advanced power meter that is able to detect high-speed transients that are often hard to capture.

High-speed voltage transients can impact a facility’s electrical system, by stressing electrical insulation and damaging sensitive electronics, ultimately leading to poor performance, gradual breakdown, or abrupt failure.

ION9000T datasheet

ION9000T features

High-speed Transient Detection

Detection and capture of impulsive and oscillatory transients with 10 MHz sampling, with ability to measure up to 10 kV peak
Transient and disturbance waveform captures, ½ cycle RMS

Unprecedented Accuracy

0.1S accuracy

Power Quality Analysis
Complies with recognized power quality monitoring standards:

IEC 61000-4-30 class A
IEC 62586-1 / IEC 62586-2
EN 50160
IEEE 519

Extended waveform capture (1s pre-event data / 3s event data @1024 s/c), and high-speed RMS data capture for in-depth analysis of any PQ disturbance in your power system.

Patented disturbance direction detection (DDD) to identify event root cause, helping you to identify with some confidence whether the event was caused internally or came through to your site from your supply.

Closeup of a ION9000T meter screen in the Quasar Portable Meter

Our EcoXpert Accreditation

Quasar is proud to be the only EcoXpert Critical Power Master in New Zealand.

Being an EcoXpert means that we are a Schneider Electric certified company and our team members are trained and accredited by Schneider Electric on Schneider systems and solutions.