OMICRON announces the addition of a portable, temporary monitoring solution to its family of on-line medium- and high-voltage asset condition monitoring systems. The new OMICRON OMS 605 is a three-channel portable partial discharge (PD) diagnostic and temporary monitoring system. It is contained within a rugged, waterproof trolley-style case for easy transport.

With the OMS 605, measurements can be performed at individual assets under load, such as motors, generators, and power transformers or power cables. The simple-to-use, pre-wired plug-and-play modules enable fast system setup. The OMS 605 includes optional capacitive or inductive sensors and a three-channel data acquisition unit, monitoring analysis software, as well as all necessary cable and grounding accessories. A notebook PC can be attached for either on-site or remote analysis and display of monitoring data.

Synchronous data capture on all three phases
Data is collected from the sensors and all pre-processing routines are performed by the acquisition unit. This guarantees an optimum performance in speed and signal quality. The PD signals are filtered, amplified and digitalized in real time. The OMS 605 has the capability of performing a synchronous, multi-channel acquisition of PD data on three phases. The three input channels of the OMS 605 can be extended by regular acquisition units or UHF channels. A UHF measurement allows a very sensitive test (for instance on cable terminations) also in high noise environments.

This greatly simplifies the suppression of noise signals and provides individual evaluation of particular PD sources. The system's unique source separation techniques, such as 3PARD and 3CFRD, as well as multiple gating methods by amplitude, phase, dynamic, frequency or channel, enable this further.

Real-time data processing, analysis and reporting
The OMS 605 includes OMICRON mobile monitoring software. The software guides the user through the monitoring process and offers real-time data storage, display, trend supervision, threshold management as well as data reporting. Software settings are retrievable for multiple asset configurations. Comprehensive data analysis of PD phenomena enables users to make timely maintenance decisions to prevent asset damage and outages.

Temporary PD monitoring often identifies critical high-voltage assets with a higher occurrence or intensity of PD events. A permanently-installed, continuous on-line monitoring system may be required at these assets to provide ongoing status and warning alerts before failures or unplanned shutdown occur.

Visit us at the T&D Show in Denver - OMICRON Booth 1276 - to see the OMS 605 and talk with our PD monitoring experts.

Company profile
OMICRON is an international company serving the electrical power industry with innovative testing and diagnostic solutions. The application of OMICRON products allows users to assess the condition of the primary and secondary equipment on their systems with complete confidence. Services offered in the area of consulting, commissioning, testing, diagnosis and training make the product range complete. Customers in more than 160 countries rely on the company’s ability to supply leading edge technology of excellent quality. Service centers on all continents provide a broad base of knowledge and extraordinary customer support. All of this together with our strong network of sales partners is what has made our company a market leader in the electrical power industry.

Contact:
Wayne Bishop
Marketing Communications
Email: wayne.bishop@omicronenergy.com
Web: www.omicronenergy.com