PRODUCTS&Services

EMERGENCY ERT-S TESTER for Earth-Resistance Measurements j

Outage Management The Seaward Group introduces the ERT-S electrical safety checker from its
Macrosoft announces the commercial Seaward Electronic Ltd. division. Designed for earth-resistance measurements,
availability of Resources on Demand the ERT-S is powered by a microprocessor and offers extended versatility over its
Version 2.0, an automated emergency peers, with the capability of either two- or three-point method earth-resistance
resource management tool for electric measurement.
utilities. Resources on Demand replaces With a unique internal memory allowing the storage of up to 1000 test results
existing workarounds, manual processes and the ability to download to a conventional PC for storing and analyzing, the
and spreadsheets with a single, central ERT-S is as user friendly as it is efficient. The instrument comes equipped with all the
database, ensuring consistent and necessary leads and test spikes for thorough soil-resistant measurement and is ideal
accurate data entry and retrieval by for Earth Resistance Utility method measurement with the use of a special current
concurrent users. ciamp. The ERT-S offers a 3>'2-digit LCD display, 1000 W, a measuring range of 100 K
Managing emergency outages to 1999 KW and a measuring frequency of 125 Hz ±1 Hz.
presents power companies with The Seaward Group | www.seaward.co.uk/
daunting challenges. Under intense
time pressures, utilities must orchestrate
massive human and equipment
resources—often from multiple locations
and regions^rapidly, effectively and
efficiently. The challenge is compounded
by cumbersome manual processes and
spreadsheets that are often unreliable,
inaccurate and constrained by single-
user access. In an environment of more
demanding customers and ever-present
vulnerability, such outdated approaches
no longer suffice. Macrosoft's Resources
on Demand, a fully web-enabled
system, provides the powerful solution
for resource management that today's
circumstances demand.
Macrosoft | www.macrosoftinc.com

AMI SYSTEM Expansion

Elster Electricity, LLC announces an Integrated protection, control, metering and substation
expansion of its EnergyAxis System—an
AMi system for residential, commercial communications for the protection of medium voltage
and industrial (C&l) electric and water
metering applications. The expansion lines, transformers, and generators
includes a new set of solutions for C&l The RFL 8051 Feeder Protection Relay offers a proven design platform
metering applications and the availability
of remote two-way 900-MHz communi- with the latest features that relay engineers want and field operations
cations for A3 ALPHA meter types A3R, personnel need.
A3K and A3Q—in addition to the A3D
and A3T meter types already available. • Protection features include directional and non-directional overcurrent
These meter types measure and report protection, over-voltage, under-voltage. over/under frequency, synchronism,
up to two metered quantities and two power inversion, thermal image, and recloser functions
channels of interval data. Utilities can
now read these C&l meters remotely • Integrated Logic Simulator to facilitate testing of settings in the relay
along with their residential accounts.
Enhancements have been made to the • Meteririg Accuracy of 0.1% provides revenue metering accuracy for ail
A3 ALPHA meter collector and the inter- protection and control functions
nal LAN option board for the A3 ALPHA
meter, as well as a new release of Elster's ' EC 61850. integrated relay to relay, and DNP 3.0 Level 2 substation
Metering Automation Server 5.5. communications
The A3 ALPHA meters provide energy RFL provides a complete line of protective relays and hardened
and demand computations for two
selected metered quantities: energy and communications solutions along with customer service that
demand storage using a four-tier, four-
season time-of-use schedule, and interval pays attention to all the details.
recording of the two metered quantities.
Bidirectional metering capabilities use
delivered and received energy as the se-
lected metered quantities plus demand-
Elester Electricity, LLC RFL Electronics Inc.
www.elsterelectricity.com wwwrflelectcom s^es@rflelect com P 973 334 3100 F 973 334.3863

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