Where to rent 3phase power/energy logging equipment?
Where to rent 3phase power/energy logging equipment?
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To make a long story short, my power company is incorrectly metering my energy/power consumption and my monthly bills are higher than they should be and I would like to do my own metering for 30-45 days to see how bad the problem is and present my findings to the Power Co. Since I know fluke makes decent meaurement equipment, I browsed their catalog and found the fluke 1735. Looks like the the tool I would need and would love to play with one of those. Since I cannot afford to buy one of those to use for a couple of days I was looking for someplace I could rent them. If such a place does not exist any alternative equipment that would perform similarly would be appreciated. Also I am no electrical engineer (ME here) so I am not even sure I am looking for the ideal tool, so any help would be appreciated.
Thx,
J.Villa
Thx,
J.Villa






RE: Where to rent 3phase power/energy logging equipment?
Find a local engineer who can do this for you. If you want to dispute this with your power company a disinterested third party is a very useful tool. Furthermore if you're "not sure" the end result may be a result you're still not sure of.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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I am pretty sure they will rent you one. It may take a day or two to load the software and learn to program the thing. I used it gather load profiles over the day in a plant.
http://www.dentinstruments.com/detailsElitePro.htm
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Part of the problem is where I'm located, San Juan, PR. The Power Co. here is government owned and run by a bunch of uneducated individuals so if I were to request an investigation I would have to wait 5+ years only for them to send and someone with at most a high school diploma and a multimeter. The way things work around here is not the same you guys are used to. I really just wanted to make my own research so then I can take the required action.
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If your "private" meter and the utility's meter agree. Then you are fine. If your meter shows what you expect (I would guess less than the utility's), then you have to make sure that it works correctly before taking any action. And that is where you hire someone to do the measurement for you.
Putting a used kWh meter there and see if your feeling is right or not can save you a lot of trouble if it says you are wrong.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Also, I'm not sure if your situation, but is it possible that someone is stealing power from your side of the meter?
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You didn't explain why you're sure the Utility is metering you incorrectly.
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http://www.metersusa.com/Digi-Watt/Digi-Watt.htm
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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If you are a commercial or industrial user (i.e. 3 phase service or 400A 1 phase service), your perception of power consumption may be vastly different from the size of your bill because of things like demand charges and/or power factor penalties. Did you analyze your bill carefully?
E-mon is a low cost power data logger. Not revenue quality, but it can give you an idea of whether they are in the right ball park.
http://www.emon.com/products_class1000.htm
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