Avante global services has introduced a voltage event recorder system, vr101s, from fluke, for monitoring power quality. This is ideal system for catching sags, swells, transients, outages and frequency variations on line voltage at receptacles, where the most sensitive loads are connected. The vr101s is a starter system, which includes a compact vr101 event recorder, an optical interface cable, and eventview software that turns the pc into a power quality reporting tool. Additional vr101 event recorders can be purchased individually, so it is possible to monitor several voltage conditions at multiple locations at once. To set up a vr101 event recorder, one just needs to enter the event capture limit parameters on the pc and load them into the recorder. It becomes easy due to eventview software and the optical interface cable. The recorder is then plugged into the outlet, which needs to be tested, and left there. No need to leave a computer hooked up. The compact recorder stores any voltage event that goes outside the limits. It can store up to as many as 4,000 events and a flashing led indicates when events have been captured. Eventview software can download a complete history of the events that occurred while the recorder was plugged into the receptacle.
