Case Study: a large worldwide cable television and media company resolves critical data center commissioning failures with Dranetz power monitoring

Large Worldwide Cable Television and Media Company resolves data center commissioning failure in under 1 month with Dranetz

The customer, a large worldwide cable television and media company, faced the challenge of commissioning a new state-of-the-art data center and ensuring the complex electrical systems for its high-reliability facility would function as designed. To proactively monitor the health of the electrical supply and assist with commissioning, they installed Dranetz's Encore Series power quality monitoring system across 25 key locations.

During site commissioning, the Dranetz system was integral in quickly diagnosing a critical failure during a transfer test from utility to generator power. The recorded data from the Encore Series identified extremely high, out-of-phase currents that led to a breaker failure, which was traced to a programming error in a logic controller. Dranetz's solution enabled the team to resolve this critical path issue with minimal schedule impact, with the facility manager stating the system paid for itself in less than one month.