GMC Instruments Americas expands with new headquarters – strengthening the Dranetz legacy

The Edison, New Jersey location becomes the central hub for sales, distribution and service across North and South America Edison, NJ, July 15, 2025 – GMC Instruments, a global leader in electrical measurement and testing technology, based in Nuremberg, Germany, has announced the establishment of its new sales, distribution and service headquarters for the Americas […]

PQ Testing: The Overlooked Step That Can Save Your Solar Investment

PQ testing for solar grids

As solar PV installations expand, performance expectations and ROI are understandably front and center. But there’s one step that often gets skipped, and it’s one that can cost you down the line: evaluating power quality (PQ). This Application Note explains why PQ assessments are critical before and after solar installation commissioning. It highlights the importance […]

Power Quality Standards: What You Need to Know

Power Quality Standards: What You Need to Know

If you’ve ever connected two different power quality meters to the same circuit and gotten different results, you’re not alone. It’s an age-old issue in power quality monitoring. And when it happens, the obvious question is: which reading should you trust? That’s where power quality standards come in. But knowing which ones apply, especially in […]

Stop the Noise: How to Fine-Tune Waveshape Triggering for Distorted Loads

how to fine tune waveshape triggering

If your power monitoring system is capturing more events than you can make sense of, incorrect settings might be to blame.  Dranetz waveshape triggers are a powerful tool to detect step load changes, negative transients, harmonics, and other intermittent fast changes in voltage or current that can affect your power system. Waveshape triggers continually look […]

When a Data Center Goes Dark: What Downtime Really Costs

data center downtime can be costly

Downtime isn’t one-size-fits-all. For some, it’s a missed deadline that can be made up with overtime. If you’re responsible for a data center though, it can be more serious—lost transactions, service disruption, and major hits to trust and uptime SLAs. The real cost depends on how reliant your operation is on clean, uninterrupted power—and how […]

What Makes a Power Quality Problem Worth Solving?

Power quality monitoring is your early warning system

Most power quality events won’t shut you down. But when they do, they cost more than just a headache. The challenge isn’t detecting power quality problems. That’s the easy part. The real question is: Do those issues actually matter to your operation? A dip, a transient, a bit of harmonic distortion—none of these are problems […]

Dranetz Technologies Announces Free and Unlicensed Dran-View 7 Pro Software

July 26, 2023 – Edison, NJ USA – Dranetz Technologies announces free and unlicensed Dran-View 7 Pro software. Listening to the voice of the customer, effective immediately, Dranetz has removed the USB HASP key and other operational license requirements for Dran-View 7 (DV7) Pro. DV7 Pro users now have unlimited access to powerful software without […]