Power Quality Site Surveys: Facts, Fiction, and Fallacies

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 1005-1018

  Gruzs, Thomas M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Liebert Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS--ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; INSTRUMENTS--ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; OSCILLOSCOPES, CATHODE RAY; OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION;

MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; POWER LINE DISTURBANCES; POWER QUALITY SITE SURVEYS; POWER SYSTEM TRANSIENTS; SITE DEPENDENT DISTURBANCES;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS;

EID: 0024111561     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: 19399367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.17472     Document Type: Article

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