My metrology experience is he needs to prove it with a second meter. In
a lab setting, at least 2 of 3 calibrated meters need to agree.
I would also ask Fluke. They have been really good over the years. Good
Luck.
Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
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On 2023-04-27 2:10 pm, August Goers via RE-wrenches wrote:
Hi Wrenches,
We have a residential site with grid tied solar where there is an
electrician involved who has gotten into taking site readings and
thinks there is a power factor problem. My gut on it is that there is
some sort of measurement reading error, and that the power factor
should be around 1.
The electrician is using a Fluke 3540FC power monitor and has provided
a spreadsheet comparing active power to apparent power and calculating
power factor. See below (you might have to open the image and zoom in
to read it). This measurement was taken with a PV system running,
presumably sending some power back to the grid. Note that the phase B
active power measurement is negative (PV exporting to grid) and that
the apparent power is positive. This nets in a power factor that is
crazy low of 0.05.
Does anyone have experience about whether a meter like this can
properly measure these readings - maybe there is a setting error or it
can't deal with negative readings?
Best,
August
Luminalt
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