AD-PQMON-SL
Power Quality Analyzer
Overview
Power quality monitoring is becoming important to keep power grids clean despite the harmonics introduced by inverter-based resources. Such activity improves the stability and reliability of the grid and improves equipment health by preventing flickering or blackouts.
The AD-PQMON-SL is a power quality monitoring solution based on the ADE9430, which is a high performance, polyphase energy and Class S power quality monitoring and energy metering device.
This reference design also has an on-board processor, the MAX32650 an ultralow power Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU-Based microcontroller (MCU) with 3MB flash and 1MB SRAM.
Features
Allows prototyping of high performance, polyphase energy meters
Modular hardware design: - Metering & compute base board - Add-on board for COMMS and HMI
The base board offers flexibility in input/output (I/O) interfacing through custom add-on boards
Industrial connectivity: 10BASE-T1L (ADIN1110), RS-485 (ADM2587E), Ethernet (WIZ82)
Long time data logging (SD card)
Standalone interface (display, LEDs, buttons)
I/O prototyping area (external control signals, GPS / GNSS)
Publicly available software for evaluation and prototyping
no-OS open-source embedded software stack
Embedded processing implementing the complete IEC 61000-4-30 class S power quality standard (using ADI proprietary ADSW-PQ-CLS library)
Open-source GUI (Scopy – Cross-platform Qt application)
Fully isolated design for safe operation
Industry standard form factor compatible with DIN rail mounts
Applications
Energy and power monitoring
Standards compliant power quality monitoring
Protective devices
Smart power distribution units
Polyphase energy meters
Intelligent buildings
Tip
For more information about the hardware see the Hardware User Guide.
System Setup & Evaluation
The solution is delivered with a set of accessories required to put the system together and get it up and running.
This is what you’ll find in the development kit box:
1x AD-PQMON-SL board with enclosure
1x AD-T1LUSB2.0-EBZ <ad-t1lusb20-ebz> 10BASE-T1L to USB adapter board
1x PROFIBUS (1x2x18AWG) cable for Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) connectivity
The AD-PQMON-SL comes with pre-programmed firmware enabling the system to interface with a PC application for system configuration, control, and data acquisition.
Application Development
The AD-PQMON-SL firmware is based on ADI’s open-source no-OS framework. It includes the baremetal device drivers for all the components in the system as well as an example application enabling evaluation of the power quality features. <WRAP center round download 100%>
It is recommended to update the firmware to the latest version as indicated here.
User Guides
Helpful Documents
Additional Resources
Design and Integration Files
Support
Analog Devices will provide limited online support for anyone using the reference design with Analog Devices components via the EngineerZone reference designs forum.
It should be noted that the older the tools’ versions and release branches are, the lower the chances to receive support from ADI engineers.