User Manual

The menu system

The top-level m

enu consists of the following submenus:

Harmonics Setup. Use these m enus to conﬁgure V, A, and W harmonics.

Distortion Setup

Minimum Hold Column

Maximum H old Column

Sum Results Column

Sum Voltage Formulas

Sum Current Formulas

Harmonics Setup

Use the Harmonics Setup to conﬁgure how quantities of harmonics are setup and

viewed as measurement results. Individual voltage, c urrent, and watts setups

provide conﬁgurable options dependent on the application and how to view the

results. There are separate voltage, current and watts menus that allow you to

set the following items:

Sequence. Odd and even or odd harmonic only (default Odd and even)

Range. 1 to 100 (default 7)

Format. Absolute or Percentage of the fundamental (default A bsolute)

Display Phase Angle. On o r Off (default On) (volts and amps only)

Selecting the harmonics results to display has no impact on the harmonic data

used in distortion calculations.

Please see the User Conﬁguration section of this manual a bout update speed. (See

page 61, User Conﬁguration.) The i nstrument is not able to calculate and display

100 harmonics on V, A, and Watts every 100 ms.

Distortion setup

The Distortion Setup menu provides access to the voltage and current distortion

factor (df), total harmonic distortion (THD), and telephone inﬂuence factor

conﬁgurations.

Distortion factor. The distortion factor formula includes the effects of high

frequency and noise. This equation only produces a valid number if the RMS is

not less than the f undamental. If the fundamental is larger than the RMS the

display shows -----.

The equations are:

and

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