Longtime service provider APT helps meet UC’s Small Business Purchasing Goals Applied Power Technologies, Inc. (APT), a meter and power monitoring and software systems integrator, has joined the University of …
Voltage sags and swells defined graphically along with why they are important to utility consumers
Why Are Load Studies Necessary? When providing electrical contractors with load studies for a new installation, end customers often fail to understand why they are necessary. After all, the branch …
Data Quality | Device Communications Data quality communications are the critical path for power monitoring systems to function properly. Device communications are only as good as the hardware, firmware, protocols, …
What is Power Quality? Power Quality has various definitions. For instance, a technical definition, based on the voltage/amperage/distortion of the sinusoidal waveforms in an alternating current system. As well as, …
Why do I need short circuit, coordination, and arc flash studies? And what are they?
Voltage Sag in San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 at 6:46:37 AM – Most of the San Francisco Bay area experienced a long duration voltage sag this morning. …
Power Quality impacts doubled in 2020 over previous years. Here’s why, and what you can do about it.
Why is power quality important? Electricity is a force. The human eye cannot see it, under normal conditions. It moves swiftly upon grids of electrical wires to apply force to …
Voltage Sag Event Sunday, August 16 at 7:44:54 AM a large portion of the San Francisco Bay area experienced a major voltage sag throughout the region. Grid voltage sagged to 56% …
