Table Of Contents - Sonel PVM-1020 User Manual

1 General information ......................................................................................... 5
1.1 Safety ....................................................................................................................... 6
1.2 General characteristics ............................................................................................ 7
1.3 Compliance with standards ...................................................................................... 8
2 Quick start ........................................................................................................ 9
2.1 Turning the meter on and off, display backlight ....................................................... 9
2.2 Selection of general measurement parameters ....................................................... 9
2.3 Remembering the last measurement result ............................................................. 9
2.4 Connectivity between IRM-1 and PVM-1020 ......................................................... 11
2.4.1 Pairing the meters .......................................................................................................... 11
2.4.2 Unpairing ....................................................................................................................... 12
2.4.3 Automatic completion of results with environmental parameters after regaining
connection with the IRM-1 ............................................................................................. 13
3 Measurements ................................................................................................ 14
3.1 Insulation resistance .............................................................................................. 14
3.1.1 Measurement of insulation resistance (PV) .................................................................... 14
3.1.2 Measurement of insulation resistance (AC).................................................................... 17
3.1.3 Additional Information .................................................................................................... 19
3.2 DC voltage of open U
3.3 DC short circuit current I
3.4 Automatic measurements (DC) .............................................................................. 23
3.5 Measurement of operating current and power ....................................................... 27
3.6 Resetting C-PV clamps .......................................................................................... 29
3.7 Low-voltage measurement of resistance ............................................................... 30
3.7.1 Compensation of test leads resistance - autozeroing ..................................................... 30
3.7.2 Low-current measurement of resistance ........................................................................ 31
3.7.3 Measurement of continuity of protective conductors and equipotential bondings with
±200 mA current ............................................................................................................ 33
3.8 Diode test with 200 mA current .............................................................................. 35
3.9 Test of blocking diode with 1000 V voltage ............................................................ 37
4 Memory of measurement results .................................................................. 39
4.1 Recording measurement result data in the memory .............................................. 39
4.2 Changing the cell and bank number ...................................................................... 41
4.3 Viewing memory data ............................................................................................. 41
4.4 Deleting memory data ............................................................................................ 43
4.4.1 Deleting the selected object and its cells ....................................................................... 43
4.4.2 Deleting the entire memory ............................................................................................ 44
5 Communication .............................................................................................. 45
5.1 Set of accessories to connect the meter to a PC ................................................... 45
5.2 Data transmission using Bluetooth 4.2 module ...................................................... 45
6 Troubleshooting ............................................................................................. 46
7 Power supply .................................................................................................. 46
7.1 Monitoring the power supply voltage...................................................................... 46
7.2 Replacing the (rechargeable) batteries .................................................................. 47
7.3 General rules of using the Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) batteries ........................... 47
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