The Iris Power BusTracII System is an economical means of providing automated, continuous partial discharge (PD) measurement in turbine generators and isolated phase bus equipped with Bus couplers. The system consists of permanently installed capacitive couplers (2 per phase), a dedicated Iris Power BusTracII monitor, plus digital communications for configuring the monitor and downloading the stored PD data.
The Iris Power BusTracII is a second generation continuous online monitor that provides maintenance professionals with an opportunity to automate PD testing. The Iris Power BusTracII monitor also allows for the possibility of integrating important operating conditions needed for trending PD activity, and will trigger a remote alarm, indicating the need for a more detailed analysis Facilities that have existing bus coupler installations can easily install the Iris Power BusTracII monitor by connecting the monitor to the existing coupler termination panel. The installation of the Iris Power BusTracII monitor does not require an outage. Qualitrol-Iris Power field service specialists can install and/or commission your
Iris Power BusTracII monitor so that alarm thresholds are set to the best levels for that particular machine.

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