Fluke Energy Analyze

Release Information
Table of Contents
Current .......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.11.1 ............................................................................................................ 3
Revision History ............................................................................................................................................. 3
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.11.0 ............................................................................................................ 3
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.10.1 ............................................................................................................ 7
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.10.0 .......................................................................................................... 10
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.9.1 ............................................................................................................ 14
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.9 ............................................................................................................... 14
Fluke Engergy Analyze Plus V3.8.1 .......................................................................................................... 16
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.8 ............................................................................................................... 16
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.7 ............................................................................................................... 18
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.4 ............................................................................................................ 21
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.3 ............................................................................................................ 22
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.2 ............................................................................................................ 22
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.1 ............................................................................................................ 22
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6 ............................................................................................................... 25
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.5 ............................................................................................................... 25
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.4.1 ............................................................................................................ 25
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.4 ............................................................................................................... 26
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.3 ............................................................................................................... 27
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.2.1 ............................................................................................................ 28
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.2 ............................................................................................................... 28
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.1.1 ............................................................................................................ 28
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.1.0 ............................................................................................................ 29
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.0.1 ............................................................................................................ 31
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.0.0 ............................................................................................................ 31
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.3 ............................................................................................................... 32
 Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.2 ............................................................................................................... 32
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.1 ............................................................................................................... 33
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.0 ............................................................................................................... 33
Fluke Energy Analyze V1.2....................................................................................................................... 34
Fluke Energy Analyze V1.1....................................................................................................................... 35
Fluke Energy Analyze V1.0....................................................................................................................... 35
FAQ .............................................................................................................................................................. 36
Appendix 1 “Energy Loss Calculator” .......................................................................................................... 37
Current
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.11.1
November 2023

• NEW: added standard compliance report according to EIFS 2013:1

• Improved: Changing trace color on event detail graph affected chart selection property (RMS |
waveshape).
• Improved: changed calculation of effective power in ELC; requires firmware v 3.1.0 to run on
177x.

Note: ELC is designed for use on consuming loads only.

• Improved: rendering issues with text on high-DPI screens utilized with font-scaling >100%
• Improved: adjusted FEA+ data translation to be more resilient in handling simple data defects in
downloads.
• Fixed: cost of energy calculation showed x1000 too high. Power readings in GB/T exports showed
x1000 too high.
• Fixed: limit unit in Advanced tab.
• Fixed: labels for inter-harmonics.

Revision History
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.11.0
August 2023

From revision 3.11.0 on, .NET based components of FEA+ require .NET 7;
.NET 4 (Framework) is no longer required.
The FEA+ 3.11 installer will offer an option to install .NET Core unless it found a suitable version was
already present.

• NEW: Energy Loss Calculator feature in combination with Fluke 177x instruments running
firmware newer than v3.0.0 (published version at the time of writing this is v2.1.0).
Use the Energy Loss overview to pinpoint loss components and when they occur.
The Load dependent table view lets you go into more detail. The “Load type” selector helps
focusing on the most relevant loss components based on the type of loads are under
observation. Refer to the appendix for more information on the power.

For the calculation of losses, the new instrument firmware lets you input supply line properties
(line resistance) that enable the calculation of line losses. FEA+ receives these settings, but also
lets you override them and apply changes to the loss model, so you can see what happens if …

Note:
Simulated data was used for the screenshots above, these may not reflect real-world applications in all aspects.
Refer to the Appendix for more information about Energy Loss Calculator.
 Energy Analyze utilizes these short forms for data identifiers in “Export” and “Advanced” data
pickers:

FEA+ short form

Description
(screen text)

• Ph01+ Positive sequence fundamental active power, P1+

• Qh01+ Positive-sequence reactive power, Q1+
• Sh01 Positive-sequence fundamental apparent power, S1+
• Ph01u Unbalance active power, PU
• Qh01u Unbalance reactive power, QU
• Nh01u Unbalance non-active power, NU
• Sh01u Unbalance apparent power, SU
• Ph01 Fundamental active power, P1
• Qh01 Fundamental reactive power, Q1
• Sh01 Fundamental apparent power, SU
• Pd Distortion active power, PD
• Nd Distortion non-active power, ND
• Sd Distortion apparent power, SD
• P Total active power, P
• N Total non-active power, N
• S Total apparent power, S
• Ih01a+ Virtual current; positive-sequence fundamental active current.
Used to derive I²R losses caused by the load and line resistance.
• Ih01r+ Virtual current, positive sequence fundamental reactive current
Used to derive I²R losses caused by the load and line resistance.
• Ih01u Virtual current; fundamental unbalance current
Used to derive I²R losses caused by the load and line resistance.
• Id Virtual current; distortion current
Used to derive I²R losses caused by the load and line resistance.
• In Current on neutral conductor.
Used to derive I²R losses caused by the load and line resistance.

• NEW: Fluke 177x instruments support authentication for data downloads. Use the “17xx Setup”
function to change the username and password of your 177x instrument. For subsequent
accesses to that instrument, FEA+ will require users to enter the correct username and password
combination. That is, for both, instrument setup and data download.
 Password-protected instruments are shown with an asterisk in FEA+’s device lists…

Data transfers between instruments and FEA+ are encrypted utilizing TLS 1.2.
• Improved: FEA+ shows “given” 177x instrument names in all device lists. If you had more than
one 177x instrument and accessed it remotely, you may wish to name them differently and so
help to prevent accessing an item by mistake.
• Improved: GB/T exports (excel) now defaults to utilize 3sec harmonic data if present, and utilizes
updated limit calculations, and shows additional information on the data export panel to help
users with selecting correct voltage ratings.
• Fixed: an issue with taking bookmarks occurred in earlier revisions. Occasionally, clicking the
“Bookmark” widget showed a progress bar but no result was available for use in the “Report”
tab. In some instances, graphical representations in bookmarks rendered with a black area.
• Fixed: the “Calendar” view had an issue that caused a wrong date to be shown with calendar
tiles.
• Fixed: when executing a firmware update utilizing the “17xx Setup” feature on high-resolution
screens, due to a scaling issue, the “OK” and “Cancel” buttons on the confirmation panel may
not have been accessible in case very many sessions were stored on the connected instrument.
• Fixed: erroneous file filter settings on Open File dialogs caused available files from being hidden
to Chinese users.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.10.1

February 2023

• NEW: IEEE519-2014 update supports daily evaluation and reporting. Also, clause 5.5
“Recommendations for increasing harmonic current limits” is incorporated.
If a session contains data for multiple days, use the left- and right arrows (marked blue) at the
top of the overview chart to step through days.
To change ISC, IL, Vnom, and to apply increased current limits, click on the three dots to the right of
the text box for limit settings (marked green).
• NEW: Added IEEE519-2022, including clause 5.6 “Recommendations for increasing harmonic
current limits”.

• NEW: show week-day information for event views. This is available for all time-series plots and
for Event History view. It is not available for Event detail and Harmonic detail plots.
To show day-of-week info, use the context menu (right-button click into white space within the
plot area) and select “show day info”. Visibility settings for day-of-week information in different
views are discarded when closing Energy Analyze.
 • Improved: “delta cursor” readouts work on data from different sessions if the same parameter is
compared.

• Improved: all SW quality logs now use .log extension.

• Improved: corrected minor issues with DPI scaling (fonts, icons, …)
• Fixed: corrected Power Factor “PF”, and Displacement Power Factor “DPF” in table views. This
also affected visibility of “capacitive/inductive” indication.
The issue become public after FEA V3.6.4
• Fixed: corrected display of voltage readings from sessions on single-phase IT topology.
This issue occurred with data from 174x and 177x, not 173x.
• Fixed: changing color on harmonics detail graph resets phase selection settings.
• Fixed: time stamps in PQDIF exports came with an erroneous offset.
• Fixed: erroneous file filter settings on Open File dialog from “Add Data” widget prevented
Norwegian and Czech users from being able to select all available options (.fca, .fca2 files).

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.10.0

October 2022

• New: added support for compliance analysis according to Netcode2020 and ENA G5-5 (planning
and compatibility levels).
• New: extended PQ+Study | Harmonics view to show up to 100 harmonics. This feature depends
on Fluke 177x firmware revision 2.0.
• Fixed: reports in languages that use non-latin characters (Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
Russian) contained unreadable text.
• Fixed: bookmarks and reports contained graphics with black area.
• Improved: working with multiple monitors – FEA will remember up to three scenarios and
monitors incl associated DPI scaling. For instance, if a user works on two monitors while in office,
but uses just the laptop monitor while working on-site, FEA+ will start on the last used monitor in
each of the settings.
 Known issue: when moving FEA+ between different monitors or monitors with different font-
scaling settings, in some cases live auto-rescaling on screen content may not function as
expected. To work-around this issue, move FEA+ before session data is loaded.
• Improved: Live screen content rescaling under Windows10 and Windows11.
• Improved: we changed the progress indicator that is shown during data download to be more
informative during the data translation phase. On slow hardware, users can see processing
progress in numeric data additionally to the overall progress bar.
• Improved: the update-notification feature is back! FEA+ tells you once an update to the firmware
of an attached instrument or to FEA+ itself is available. You still can mute this feature.
• Improved: added THD, total harmonic distortion, to the list of exportable data. Options are
THD40, THD50, THD100 – where the numeric suffix indicates the bandwidth utilized in
calculating the item.
• Improved: added flagging information for use with all supported standards to the list of
exportable data.
(Netcode2020 users please choose „interruptions“ as flagging source from the data selection tree).
• Improved: Extended parameter naming to include bandwidth for THD readings in FEA+ standard
compliance analysis. For instance, PQHealth | Summary view will show THD40 for EN50160
compliance analysis, but THD100 if checking against ENA G5-5 limits.
For datasets that do not contain 100 harmonics, FEA+ will default to the highest available
bandwith:

Image 1: ENA G5-5 results from a limited data set; 100 harmonics are expected.

Image 2: Netcode 2020 results from the same data set.

• Improved: added ability to export all available data including events in one operation; the „Use
Template“ option has been reworked to a more generic approach:

o Select the time range from which to export data using the settings to the left on the
panel. All data exported, including events, will become filtered by the selection made.
The checkbox „end-aligned“ lets users choose a week from end of a session vs from
start. Time pickers and duration display update accordingly.
o Use the „Create“ Template button to select items from all available time-series data.
This includes data that FEA+ infers from measured data, e.g. „Over Deviation Voltage
[%]“.
o Click checkboxes „Dip“, „Swell“, „Interruption“, „Rapid Voltage Change“ to add
corresponding event records to the expored data.
o FEA+ lets you select from additional „Options“:
▪ Date/Time format: exported text data will always be printed in ISO-like format.
Users can choose how time stamps get exported – either as UTC (as used by
instruments), or with time-zone adjustments applied, that is, according to your
Windows locale setting.
▪ Header line: choose to either use a single-line header that contains column
names, or a two-lined header that additionally gives parameter units.
 ▪ Output: all data that has been selected for export can be written into one single
file. The resulting text file content will hold sections that correspond to the
categories chosen for a given template (refer „Create“ template).
Alternatively, choose „split by category“ to receive one text file per category.
Categories refers to time-intervals that data has been taken with – e.g. 10min PQ
Interval contains 10min aggregates. An exception are event data that do not fall
into any interval category.
• Improved: Custom report logos scaling has been improved; it is no longer possible to have logos
occupy more than 2 lines in the header. Larger logos are scaled-down to meet this requirement.
• Improved: The Disdip table shows content according to standards selection. Previous FEA
versions always showed event classification according to EN50160. With release 3.10 we added
the standard selector also to the PQHealth | Events view and show Netcode2020 clasiffication.
or EN50160. For standards that do not deal with events categories, FEA+ 3.10 defaults to the
EN50160 classification. A new „legend“ line details the relevant categories.
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.9.1
May 2022

• New: supports new feature “Change WiFi Access Point password” for Fluke 174x. This feature
requires firmware version 2.1.
• Fixed: 3.9.1 adds basic DPI awareness to Energy Analyze. Previous versions produced ‘distorted’
bookmarks when used on systems that require >150% font scaling (mostly seen with UHD
screens).
We recommend large screens (24” or larger) over UHD for work with FEA+.
Please note minimum requirements: Windows versions older than 8.1 are no longer supported.
• Fixed: an issue during data translation (after downloading from tools) that could have prevented
FEA+ from finishing the transfers.
• Improved: by default, “Graph Options” are hidden when saving a bookmark. This leaves more
space for charts and tables. In reports, no information is lost because all settings are available
from text descriptions.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.9

March 2022

• New: updated FEA+ installer.

Please note minimum requirements: Windows versions older than 8.1 are no longer supported.
• New: support for reports according to NEC 220.87.
The new report is available from the “Report” widget for each session listed in the “Project
 Manager” tab.

• Improved: PM tab now shows detailed PQ-events counts. The example below shows a total of
215 PQ events have been recorded. Hover the mouse pointer over the number to get additional
information about event types. In below case, the session also contained 40 canceled RVC events
that are not shown graphically.

• Improved: more understandable K-Factor settings display on Project Manager tab.

• Improved: FEA+ now decimates data before creating thumbnails for the Calendar View.
• Improved: Japanese translations.
• Improved: changed to bar-chart type for showing Supra Harmonics.
• Improved: FEA+ prevents repeated “find min/max” operations on chart traces; if min/max
markers are already shown for a trace, no duplicate markers will be created anymore.
• Improved: PQ+ Study | Supra Harmonics view shows bar charts instead of line charts.
• Improved: Phase labels for transient detail data (1MS/s, 20MS/s) now correctly show Phase-to-
Ground voltages in table, chart title, legend, and cursor readouts.
• Fixed: depending on monitor resolution, bookmarks may have shown with a black area in
“Reports” tab and in resulting reports.
• Fixed: an issue that caused FEA+ to freeze when loading compound analysis files that contain
multiple sessions.
• Fixed: “File Open” dialogue in Norwegian language did not allow to open *.fca2 files.
 • Fixed: PQ+Study | Harmonics view had an issue with checkboxes in the “Graph Options” that
caused Interharmonics to remain disabled. Also, in “Graph Options”, the “Channel Selector” did
not offer 3-second interval results in some cases; 3-second “Power Harmonics” channel was
added.
• Fixed: issues with downloading data. Depending on download volume (multiple sessions) and PC
errors occurred that prevented downloads to complete successfully.
o increased a time-out value for starting the stream processing which removed errors
related to “pipe” and “adapter” on affected (older) PCs.
o reworked the download process, FEA+ 3.9 will show “downloading …” and
“processing …” states on the data download progress bar. The overall process now is
more robust and will always offer an option to access downloaded raw data.
o fixed an issue that caused a different instrument to become selected in the “Source”
dropdown on the data download panel AFTER a download finished.
The same issue could have caused FEA+ to stop working.
• Fixed: an issue that caused 173x and 174x based .fel file imports from USB key to fail.
• Fixed: an issue that caused FEA+ to stop working while accessing data for IEEE519 reports.

Fluke Engergy Analyze Plus V3.8.1

This revision has not been publicly released!

• Improved: chart y-scaling resolution is now better aligned with the zoom level. Scale resolution
gradually increases when zooming in and decreases when zooming out, respectively. Cursor
read-outs are also following the zoom level.
• New: “Advanced” tab now provides Over- and Undercompliance results in % of nominal voltage
additionally to absolute readings.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.8

October 2021

• Improved: time-stamp resolution for Waveform and Transient event detail graphs.
The minimum time resolution on wave-shape sample data is 12.5 µsec, for transient sample data
 50 nsec (Fluke 1777).

Figure 1Waveshape Deviation Event (80kS/S)

Figure 2Transient Event (20MS/s)

• New: Support for Fluke 177x data – including fast Transient Event recordings up to 20MS/s
additionally to the known event types.

Known Issues:

• “Project Manager” view shows the number of event detail data sets that were loaded from
instruments rather than the number of events that have event detail data associated.
 Similarly, K-Factor configuration shows configuration parameters that belong to the EU-method
even if US-method was selected.
This will be improved in a following release.
• When closing a session that had large data sets removed, FEA+ will show an estimate of reduced
size before the original file becomes cleaned up. During the clean-up phase, FEA+ shows the wait
cursor, but may report “not responding” in the main window title. Do not interrupt FEA+.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.7

This revision has not been publicly released!

• New: FEA+ utilizes an updated library, we reworked all table views and Project Manager view.
Tabular data view under “Advanced” is not affected. New overview- and time-range tables now
show “Logging Information” within a separate horizontal splitter.

Figure 3 Time-Range Table view rev 3.6.4 (old)

 Figure 4 Time-Range Table view rev 3.7 (new)
• New: reworked und updated FEA+’s internal file- and memory management. This allows for
larger session files. For 173x and 174x users, only little changes in faster time to load (open) an
analysis file will be noticeable. For Fluke 177x users, a previously existing limitation to 4GB .fca-
file size has been extended, so that single sessions >4GB can continue to be loaded and
combined for comparison. FEA+ 37 utilizes new “.fca2” files to achieve this; raw data as
downloaded from instruments continues to be preserved. All users will see an increase in
memory consumption in the first public release; further steps to reduce resulting file size are to
follow.
• New: introduced a separate view for “Unbalance” data under the “Energy Study” tab. Earlier
revisions showed unbalance ratios within the “V, A, Hz, THD” view. The new view, as well as
“Advanced” tab, also host volts and amps sequence components.
• New: Added Fluke 177x feature support.
o “Neutral Voltage” channels added to all views that show voltage readings.
o PQ+ Study contains a new view “Supra Harmonics”.
o New event type “Transient” shows high-speed sample data. Improved time stamp
resolution also for data from 173x and 174x.
o “Advanced” tab shows all new data items from 177x instruments. The channel selection
tree now shows top-level data categories as they are defined by instrument capabilities.
 Figure 5 Channel selection FEA 3.7 (new)

Figure 6 Channel Selection FEA3.6.4 (old)

• New: Items in “Graph Options” can be moved within the Graph Options pane. When utilizing
split screens (concurrently view e.g. table and graph), you can move the most relevant item into
visible space. To do so, drag the item title (here “Event trigger filter”) to the desired position.
 • New: The Event History View (PQ+Study | Events) now allows to blend in all voltage event types.
Previous revisions required select either “DSI” or “Waveshape Deviation”, or …
• New: Updated standard compliance reports (EN 50160 + 2019 - amendments A1, A2, A3;
IEC61000-2-2:2002/A1:2017, NETCODE 2020, G.O.S.T. 32144-2013).
o Due to this addition, also “custom limit files” became reworked. It is required for FEA+
3.7 and later to update any custom limit files for purposes that are not already covered
by the new options (e.g. for EN50160 +A3:2019 you no longer need to use a custom limit
file because it is available by default selections).
o FEA+ 3.7 and later show additional information for each selection. This also includes
custom limit files – you may wish to edit the tag “<Information> editable text
</Information>” in new custom files.
• Improved: We removed a limitation to “one seat” installations from our End-User-License. FEA+
users may install several copies on different PCs.
• Fixed: Template-based data export erroneously skipped the last available data row.
• Improved: Settings for “Calendar Graph” view are now inherited from the Overview Table view.
In previous revisions, having Graph Options for the detail view cloned only partially caused
confusion.
• Fixed: time picker controls on the “Report Setup” panel were truncated in some cases.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.4

Release 3.6.4 is published on Fluke web sites.

• Fixed: “Harmonics Grouping Mode” got reported as “Components” for 1742, even though 1742
does not support harmonics logging.
For 1746 and 1748, the new firmware release 2.0.5 is required to correctly show the configured
Harmonic Grouping Modes in Energy Analyze’s “Project Manager” tab. Previous versions
properly applied the setting and delivered correct data but caused a different setting to be
shown in FEA+.

• Improved: The “Update firmware” function in “174x Setup” now allows more time to complete
in order to prevent time-out errors during firmware updates.
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.3
Release 3.6.3 is published on Fluke web sites.
For changes see change list V3.6.2., additionally

• New: Fluke 1742/46/48 users can update their instrument’s firmware without having to use a
USB Drive. This feature works with 174x firmware revision 2.0.1 and newer.
• Improved: reduced number of error messages shown in case of loss of connection with the
instrument.
• Fixed: 174x Setup – the “Start” button on “Logging” tab remained disabled when it should have
been enabled.
• Fixed: phase labels in csv export occasionally showed incorrect values.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.2

Version 3.6.2 has not been published on Fluke web sites.

• Improved: new, template-oriented data export. Users can now define a template that
determines which data will be exported to text files (.csv). FEA+ saves your templates for later
reuse.
• Improved: tables on the “RMS Power” tab apply linear averaging of interval results to show
session overall powers and power factor readings.
• Extended: additional entries in the data selection panel under the “Advanced” tab let users pick
re-aggregated parameters. E.g. if a session was conducted at 5 minute intervals, users can now
also pick 10, 15, 20, … minute aggregates.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6.1

• Fixed: corrected data series labels in PQHealth and Harmonics views for IEEE519 data; affects
THD, THC, TDD, TID labels.
• Fixed: language DLLs digital signature.
• Fixed: nominal voltage indicators on “Event triggers” tab in 174x Setup function.
• Improved: x-axis labels occasionally overlapped in detached-cursors mode.
• Improved: export report function now remembers the last used target path, so you no longer
have to adjust the path for each report saved.
• Improved: THD re-aggregation in table views now correctly indicates less than 95% valid values
present. Previous revisions gave results for signals below specified measurement levels, i.e.
‘invalid’, signal amplitudes.
• Improved: translations to French language.
• Improved: renamed button label to give proper context for the “instrument setup” function. This
function is available for 1742/46/48 instruments, only.
• Improved: added text hints to “Mains Signaling Voltage” measurement configuration for
1742/46/48 instruments.
• Improved: in “174x Setup” function, tab names are colored red if changes were made on that tab
but have not yet been applied.
• New: added SIGET compatible csv export. This export format utilizes new Flicker PST readings
provided by 1742/46/48 firmware 2.0 at user configurable intervals (trend).
• New: added “Nordics” language support to FEA+ UI.
• New: 1742/46/48 setup now also shows live charts on the “Connection Verification” tab. Select
parameters (voltage, current, power) and phases to be charted. To get cursor readouts from the
chart, move the mouse pointer to the chart area, and keep the left mouse button pressed. The
mouse pointer changes to a cross – make sure the cross is located in an area of the x-axis that
already contains data.

• New: added extended event recordings; for Dips, Swells, and Interruptions. 1742/46/48
instruments running firmware revision 2.0 will capture event detail data (waveform and RMS
profile) also at the end of an event. FEA+ V3.6 adds navigation buttons to event detail displays
that span more than one event detail data block.

• New: floating and anchored notes can now either show full text or their index number.
• New: added an item to the graph-context menu that automatically marks minimum and
maximum in a graph trace.

• New: support for “circular memory” mode. In this mode, 1742/46/48 instruments continuously
log data until users stop a session. This is achieved by overwriting oldest data in memory instead
of stopping a session once all memory has been filled. (there is no option to select a specific
portion of memory)
FEA+ V3.6 can always be used to retrieve data that is currently buffered, regardless of the
session state being active or stopped. The session download dialogue now shows different
memory models of a session: linear (stop once full) and circular (overwrite old data).

Note: FEA+ V3.6 will allow deletion of an active session if the command is selected on the
confirmation popup message.
In “174x Setup”, navigate to the “logging” tab and select “Offline, circular (overwrite data)”
mode to configure circular model for your session.
• New: nominal voltage setting can be overwritten on PQHealth tab. Where data was logged using
an invalid nominal voltage setting, the function still allows use of the data for reporting
according to IEEE 519.

Note: this is not available for EN 50160.

• New: 1742/46/48 instrument configuration templates can be stored to disk and re-loaded to an
instrument. This allows reuse of working configurations easily instead of having to re- adjust
every parameter.
• New: 1742/46/48 instruments running FW 2.0 accept a new license that enables MODBUS/TCP
based communication with the instrument. To configure the Modbus interface on instruments
that have the license installed, use FEA+’ “174x Setup” function. You can enable or disable the
Modbus interface, and configure the Modbus slave ID and TCP port.
Interface documentation as well as C# source files are available at request.
Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.6
Not published. Changes planned with rev 3.6 are published as rev 3.6.1, described above.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.5

• Fixed an issue that caused FEA+ to stop working while exporting data sets from Fluke 1730
instruments.
• Improved connected devices selection on the Data Download panel will default to the last
selected device.
• Improved table design for reports.
• New: option to show minimum and maximum curve points – new menu entry in chart trace
context menu.
• New: option to toggle showing notes as small boxes with indices, or showing note’s text.
• New: reworked PQ+Study/PQHealth view to show separate bars for defined limits for each
parameter. Bars will either be green (within limit) or red (exceeding limit). This removes the
need to show amber bars.
• New: data shown in the PQHealth view is also presented as a table view. Select the view type
from the Graph Options menu to the right. Table cells can be copy/pasted to other applications.
• New: added a live data chart under the “Connection Verification” tab of the Instrument Setup
function. Clicking on the chart freezes updates and shows cursors and text readouts to the left of
the strip chart. Data continues to capture in background, and refreshes when releasing the
mouse button.
• New: standard compliance reports contain PASS/FAIL indications on all parameters for which a
limit is given. A summary section shows results of all tested parameters.
• New: added Norwegian (FoL) standard compliance evaluation, and reporting.
• Improved: Project Manager tab informs of channel mapping (voltage and current channels), as
well as current channel inversion status that has been adjusted for the session loaded. The same
information is also available in reports.
• Improved: added an option to scale mains signaling voltage readings (MSV event details) in % of
nominal voltage.
• New: “Distortion Power” added to the parameter list for “Advanced” views.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.4.1

• Fixed an issue in PQ+Study/PQHealth/Summary view that caused EN51060, GOST, NETCODE
evaluation to show incorrect results for quantities that are evaluated utilizing only one percentile
(e.g. limit is given for 100% of values, but not for the 95th percentile). In these cases, the limit
evaluation always passed. The issue was introduced with rev 3.4.
• Fixed a wrong translation to German on the Advanced tab.
• Fixed missing default or custom logos in reports.
• Fixed X-axis labels for THD if “Voltage 3s” is displayed. Rev 3.4 showed “A THD” when it should
show “V THD” in PQ+Study/Harmonics.
• Fixed display of “IL” in the Limit Settings sidebar under PQ+Study/PQHealth/Summary for GOST.
Showing IL or ISC applies to IEEE519 evaluations only.
 • Improved installer execution. The installer will now automatically detect a previous installation
of FEA+ and update that installation without changes to the actual location.
If you need to modify the install location, please uninstall the current instance(s) of FEA+ and run
the installer after uninstalling finished; if no active installation is detected, rev 3.4.1 installer will
provide an option to override the default installation target location.
Admins/Advanced Users: you can always override the default behavior by calling the installer
from CLI utilizing ‘/DIR’ and ‘/GROUP’ parameters.
Example:
FEA_V3.4_1_Install.exe /DIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Fluke\FEA341" /GROUP="\Fluke"

… this will install Energy Analyze to the directory given by the /DIR parameter and place a
shortcut into a start menu group called “Fluke”.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.4

• Improved line spacing in detached cursor hint texts for locales that utilize non-Latin character
sets.
• Improved: detached cursor text now also shows time range selections.
• Improved: the instrument setup panel occasionally opened in the background on Windows 10.
• Fixed an issue that caused Energy Analyze to stop working when trying to connect to an
instrument at an unknown IP address / name.
• Disabled importing data from unsupported instruments.
• Fixed display of limit lines in ANSI, ITIC, and CBEMA event tolerance evaluation. A previous
change rendered these lines invisible.
• New: option to export data to a GB/T14549 (reporting for China power utilities) compliant Excel-
formatted report. Users utilize the export widget (Project Manager tab) on the header line of the
 session that contains the data to be used.

Known issues: see rev 3.0.0, below.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.3

• Fixed storing sample files during installation. Two sample files now available in FEA+’ data
directory.
• Fixed typos in French and German language.
• Fixed flagging feature for events that occur on single phases in a poly-phase topology.
• Improved color settings. Users can choose to apply customizable colors to min/max traces in
plots.
• Improved: do not show the full file path in footers of exported reports.
• Improved: occasionally standard name references were truncated the exported reports.
• Improved scale labels of vertical axes showing % readings. Previous revisions showed milli-%.
• New: View configurations in Advanced tab can be stored to a file and reused.
• New: Users can add limit lines to plots on Advanced tab.
• New: Added evaluation of current harmonics per T.O.R. – D2.
As part of this change, limits configuration in the graph options section under
PQ+Study/PQHealth has been modified – press the ‘…’ button to modify limit configuration for
IEEE519 and the new TOR compliant evaluation.
 • New: FEA+ supports data exports that comply with NeQual (Switzerland) requirements.

Known issues: see rev 3.0.0, below.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.2.1

• Improved French translations.
• Fixed an issue that caused FEA+ to stop working when creating bookmarks from views that have
no cursors (tabular views, calendar view).

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.2

• New: color settings can be stored to file for sharing.
• New: cursors can be hidden (for nicer reports).
• New: cursor readouts can be plotted to the right of graphs or on top additionally to showing
read-outs as movable bubble text next to the corresponding cursor line.
Read-outs have been extended to show delta-values for all instances that utilize dual cursor lines
(i.e. time-series charts).
• New: FEA+ rev 3.2 installs a new directory that contains limit templates in xml format. Users can
edit these custom limit templates, import them into compound analysis files, and so apply
customized limits to statistical evaluation. Recommended procedure:
o Locate the “CustomLimits” directory in the Fluke\EnergyAnalyze folder. The default
installation for single users (option “private for this user” checked during installation)
creates this folder in the current user’s “documents” folder.
o Select a suitable template file (*.xml) based on the type (e.g. IEEE 519, EN50160, …) of
evaluation desired. Create a copy of this file, rename and open it in a text editor.
o Change the text in the <Name> section. FEA+ will show this name as an option in
standard selections with the Quick-Reports dialog and PQ+Study/PQHealth/Summary
view.
o Import the new limit set into FEA+: with an analysis file (.fca) loaded, select “Custom
Limits Definitions” from the File menu. Select “Add” and pick the limit file you edited.
o Use your custom limit set with PQHealth or Quick-Reports

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.1.1

• Improved installation procedure ‘for all users’. A component required for the “Instrument Setup”
feature.
• Improved: “Instrument Setup” correctly shows memory consumed on the attached 174x
instrument.
 • Improved the checkbox “align to 10min boundary”. Occasionally this checkbox had no effect.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.1.0

• New: added support for evaluation of Mains Signaling Voltages. Instrument can be configured to
log voltage amplitudes at two custom-defined frequencies. A new event trigger allows definition
of thresholds, resulting events are listed for detail evaluation in Energy Analyze. MSV logging
data is available for exports and reports.
• New: the “Connection Verification” tab at “Instrument Setup” now also shows a phasor diagram
along with live readings of phase angle relations and fundamental voltage and current readings.
• New: the instrument can be configured to log two additional parameters. Users can decide to
either utilize analogue AUX inputs located at the instrument’s front panel, or connect up to two
Fluke FC modules (BLE). Configuration also includes an option customize scaling and units for
data from the additional channels.
• New: added GOST 33073-2014 compliant reporting. Users need to obtain a license in order to
utilize this function. An option “GOST” is provided at the report-widget on the “Project Manager”
tab for data from all enabled instruments.
• New: added Dutch “NetCode” compliant reporting. An option “NetCode” is provided at the
report-widget on the “Project Manager” tab.
• Improved: session timing on the “Logging” tab under “Instrument Configuration” lets users apply
the desired aggregation intervals and check the resulting maximum logging period.
• Improved: trace colors in the calendar graph view always match the reference frame color set in
the calendar overview table.
• Improved: Flicker and Mains Signaling logs are shown in separated tabs under PQ+Study. The
new views can become bookmarked and added to customized reports.
• Improved: reports utilize the decimal character specified in the system locale settings.
• Improved: now using more informative default bookmark names in section headers. It is still
recommended to custom-name bookmarks before creating them. This will make reporting of
many items more readable.
• Improved: optimized colors of the “High Contrast” color scheme for readability. Improved
utilization of this color scheme on the “Advanced” tab to avoid two traces of a custom defined
plot to have the same color.
• Improved: in “Graph Options”, separated “min/max” into two checkboxes so users can show
minima, or maxima, or both.
• Changed: added a checkbox ”Align to 10min boundary” to the “Recording Period” section under
“Logging” tab in “Instrument Setup”.
Placing a tick mark there ensures the instrument will take at least 1008 10min intervals if “1
week” duration is selected, and so prevent too short EN510160 compliant logging sessions.
The session planning feature will be further improved with the next revision of FEA+.
• Changed: previous revisions of Energy Analyze used to attach standard-compliance reports to
bookmarks created from the “PQHealth” view. With the new “Report” function on the “Project
Manager” tab, bookmarked “PQHealth” views no longer create standard reports.
Instead, the “Report” widget on the “Project Manager” tab offers two workflows –
 a) Directly export a standard-compliance report from the widget function

Click “Report” to directly create a standard-compliance report document utilizing the

output-format selected under “Settings/Report Output Format”. The resulting report
contains information from the summary and session items, and the results from
statistical evaluation.
b) Create a standard-report bookmark for use in the report tab.

Click “Bookmark” and find the standard-compliance report-item under the “Report” tab
in the left column. Amend the item to your needs by using it along with other
bookmarked report items on the space to the right. Bookmarked report items can be e.g.
detail graph views, detail event views, PQSummary overview, etc.

Solved issues:

• Some occasions of FEA+ have issues accessing default data locations. This may manifest in error
messages when trying to access Calendar View, or saving downloaded data to the target
directory.
• Full assessment of Mains Signaling Voltage levels, including derived events, will be published
with a subsequent release of instrument firmware and FEA+.
• 1742 users should access Flicker data from the Advanced tab. 1746/48 users can access Flicker
data from the PQ+Study/PQHealth-summary view.
Known Issues: see rev 3.0.0, below.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.0.1

• Corrected data path handling in installer and EnergyAnalyze Plus. This solves an issue with
unresolvable data path evaluation that occurred in new FEA+ 3.0.0 installations.
• Improved En50160 statistics calculation.

Known Issues: see rev 3.0.0

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V3.0.0

• New: support for Fluke 1742/46/48 Firmware rev 1.0.1
o Export of data to PQDIF.
o Quick reports from Project Manager tab.
o Extended session- and instrument-information on PM tab.
o Extended parameter set 1746/48.
o New PQEvent functions – Rapid Voltage Changes, Waveform Deviation.
o Extended EN50160 and IEEE519 PQHealth Summary views and reports.
o 1742/46/48 Instrument Setup.
o Increased resolution for cursor-readouts in events detail recording views.

Known Issues:

• Windows Device Manager may show failed installation of 173x and 174x serial port drivers. This
is not an issue for Energy Analyze Plus, because these instruments do not use serial port
communication.
• Energy Analyze may show duplicate entries of found 174x instruments in dropdown selectors
(data download, instrument setup). This occurs if several connections are possible, e.g. by WiFi,
USB cable and Ethernet.
• Translations are incomplete – some text item are displayed in English language when a different
language is selected. This also affects reports.
• Some occasions of FEA+ being unable to access data locations. This may manifest in error
messages when trying to access Calendar View, or saving downloaded data to the target
directory – issue is not fully understood yet.
• FEA+ may not be able to find instruments if these are connected to a different LAN segment than
the PC running FEA+.
FEA+ utilizes below listed ports. Please contact your IT specialist for assistance on routing issues.
The installer will by default attempt to add exceptions to the PC’s firewall, network policy may
prevent these exceptions.
o 18571 (UDP), and 18572 (TCP) for device discovery and communication.
o 443 (HTTPS) for all activities related to Instrument Setup.
• Creating pdf documents from the report preview window fails. Select “PDF” as desired report
print output format from FEA+ Preferences menu to work around.
• Full assessment of Mains Signaling Voltage levels, including derived events, will be published
with a subsequent release of instrument firmware and FEA+.
 • 1742 users should access Flicker data from the Advanced tab. 1746/48 users can access Flicker
data from the PQ+Study/PQHealth-summary view.
• Over-/underdeviation data is available from the Advanced tab.
• Unbalance readings are available from the Advanced tab, only.
• The Advanced tab does not honor color scheme settings.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.3

• New Feature: support for Fluke 1732/34 Firmware rev 2.1
• New Feature – download data from an instrument even if it is locked. FEA+ does not support
changing the screen lock code.
• Improved instrument identification in download and set-time panels.
• Improved export to csv.
• Improved storing/restoring of bookmarks.
• Corrected calculation of THD results.
• Corrected input of energy cost schemes.
• Changed communication through USB cable to utilize Ethernet-over-USB style of transfers
(RNDIS). This approach works around an issue encountered with the previously utilized mode
under Windows 10. IMPORTANT:
o Users of 1732/34/36/38 who have FEA+ rev 2.2 (or earlier) already installed MUST
choose to remove 173x USB drivers during installation of revision 2.3!
o Users of 1730 must who have FEA+ rev 2.2 (or earlier) already installed, need not re-
install Fluke 1730 drivers, but can choose an option to leave drivers unchanged.

Known issues:

• It may take up to 90 seconds for Windows to provide required functionality for Energy Analyze
to communicate with an instrument attached by USB cable.
• Windows’ Device Manager may show an unknown CDC device after connecting 173x
instruments to the USB port (Windows7); this device is not used.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.2

• New Feature: support for Fluke 1730 Firmware rev 1.3
o Improved handling of time stamps from instrument firmware results in millisecond
resolution. Backward compatible with data collected using previous firmware revisions
of 1730, these do not support millisecond resolution in time stamps.
• Improved FEA+ UI to fully support non-Latin character sets. This removes a character corruption
issue.
• Disabled showing firmware update information if the connected instrument has the latest state
firmware installed.
• Change order of tabs under “PQ+ Study” to show “Harmonics” view by default when first
opening a new session. FEA+ rev 2.1 by default showed the feature “Harmonics Limit Evaluation”
which requires a firmware license.
 • Disabled “phase-to-phase” selection for nominal voltage input in single phase topologies on
“Load Study/Demand Table” view.
• Removed context menu from “PQ+ Study/PQHealth” views erroneously enabled in rev 2.1

Known issues: see revision 2.1, below.

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.1

• New Feature: support for Fluke 1738 instrument
o Extended “PQ+ Study” tab to support analysis according to EN 50160 and IEEE 519.
o IEEE 519 based analysis allows users to correct instruments settings ISC and IL.
o Extended report functionality to provide all relevant data in pdf/rtf reports.
o Extended Events tab to support event RMS profile and wave-shape plots. Modified Event
List view to show hierarchical structure of “combined events” and components.
o Extended export function to handle new datasets.
• Added support for licensed features “1736/Upgrade”, “IEEE 519”, “WiFi Infrastructure”.
• Extended information shown on “Project Manager” tab.
• Extended “Advanced” tab to handle new data.
• Improved Version lookup and compare.

Known issues:

• Adding a high-resolution image on the 'Project Manager' tab will show distorted colors. Pictures
are printed properly in reports, though!
• Reports created in Japanese language result in large .pdf files (font embedding).

Fluke Energy Analyze Plus V2.0

• New Feature: support for Fluke 1736 instrument
o Added “PQ+ Study” tab to support analysis of “Events” and harmonic content recorded
by the 1736.
o Added neutral line current to selectors on existing “Energy Study” and “Load Study” tabs.
o Added voltage unbalance selector to “Energy Study/V, A, Hz, THD” view.
• New Feature: use the “Advanced” tab to create custom defined graphs. This tab allows you to
compare data series in one graph beyond the combinations available from the “Energy Study”,
“Load Study” and “PQ+ Study” tabs. You can also export data used within the custom graph using
the table view.
• New Feature: FEA+ looks up availability of Firmware (1730 and 1736) and Software updates and
informs users accordingly. Users can disable this function and decide to check for updates at
their discretion using “Help/Updates”.
• New Feature: go to “Settings/Report Logo” and select the FLUKE or a custom logo for reports.
• Fixed: Energy Analyze 1.2 occasionally stopped working when comparing multiple sessions in
“Calendar” view.
• Improved: The “Auto Scale” context menu item in graph views sometimes produced erroneous
results.
Fluke Energy Analyze V1.2
• New Feature: “Time-range tables” and “Graph views” can be shown concurrently. Pull time-
range table up to do this. Use blue expand/collapse icons to switch views.
• New Feature: “Download data” from instrument using a Wi-Fi connection. FEA 1.1 and previous
connected to instruments through USB, only.
• New Feature: Show “inductive/capacitive loads” or “load direction” with Power Factor results in
graphs and tables.
• New Feature: “Customize trace colors” – users can pick custom colors to be used for individual
traces on plots.
• New Feature: “Create reports in .rtf” – Rich text format has been added as a choice for report
output formats (menu ‘Setting/Report output format/…).
• New Feature: “Project Manager” shows extended session information (transducer ratio, time
zone adjusted on instrument when logging, … )
• New Feature: Exported data contains time zone information.
• New Feature: If a session description is truncated on the “data download” panel, point to that
entry and get the full description shown in a tool tip.
• New Feature: Bookmark items can be renamed from within the report tab.
• Improved: Users can open a .fel file (e.g. received USB thumb drive contents by email) from the
file-open dialog and do not have to use the file download panel any more.
• Improved: Option to choose data logged within trend or demand interval for graph view under
Energy Study/Demand tab. Additionally to the data source (trend or demand), the drop-down
selection lets you define aggregation intervals to be applied to all shown data. A function that
automatically re-calculates data to a common aggregation interval for all shown sessions is also
offered in order to help comparing data that was (erroneously) logged at different interval
lengths.
• Improved: Working with notes – text input box can be resized.
• Improved: Working with zoom in graph views – occasionally the zoom rectangle was not shown.
• Improved: Occasionally, time-range tables were not shown correctly after restarting FEA.
• Improved: Last shown graph views were not restored properly when restarting FEA.
• Improved: Collapsed/expanded state of table views were not restored properly when restarting
FEA.
• Improved: Readability of axis (x and y) labeling in all graph views.
• Improved: FEA memory management has been reworked leading to slightly faster starting, lower
memory and OS resource consumption.
• Fixed: Calculation and display of Power Factor results.
• Fixed: Recalculation of volts, amps, and estimated apparent power to different aggregation
intervals.
• Fixed: FEA occasionally stopped working when a large session file was shown at high granularity
in calendar tab (e.g. months-long logging shown in hours).
Fluke Energy Analyze V1.1
• New Feature: “Add Notes” to graphs. Notes can be attached to a curve point or become placed
on the graph area. Notes that are anchored with a curve will be prefilled with clear-text readings
of the corresponding curve point and will only be printed in reports if they are visible at the time
of creating the report item. Notes that are placed on the graph area (not anchored with a curve
point) will remain visible regardless of the adjusted zoom levels and will always be printed in
reports. Notes can be edited, removed, or moved/attached, select either action from a context
menu (right-mouse button click on a note).
• New Feature: “Add Image” accepts generic .jpg images.
• New Feature: Instrument screen shots are shown and can be loaded from the data download
dialog. Data on the instrument can be after downloading from the same dialog.
• New Feature: Users can adjust what data to export when using the ‘Export’ widget in the ‘Project
Manager’ tab.
• New Feature: the ‘Settings’ widget in the ‘Project Manager’ tab can be used to correct/adjust
scaling parameters for AUX channels, and to enter cost of energy parameters.
• New Feature: use ‘Synchronize time…’ from the ‘Settings’ menu to adjust the instrument time.
This function is not available during logging.
• New Feature: Time range tables can be viewed concurrently with graph views; tables are
switched off if no time range is selected.
• Added Japanese UI translation.
• Improved: display of icons on the ‘Calendar’ tab after removing sessions from a project.
• Improved: occasional data corruption caused by removing sessions.
• Improved: application stability with different date/time format settings.
• Improved: corrected display of Power Factor min/max values.
• Improved: multiple limit lines were shown when only one was expected.

Known issues:

• Adding a high-resolution image on the 'Project Manager' tab will show distorted colors. Pictures
are printed properly in reports.
• If notes are placed in close proximity on a curve they will overlap. Zooming out can cause notes
to become hidden. All notes are printed OK according to the actual visibility in reports.
• The state of table views may become distorted – i.e. some tables may be shown in collapsed
state though they should be shown in expanded state. Reopening the analysis file resets this
error.
• Reports created in Japanese language result in large .pdf files (font embedding).
• Energy Analyze Help will give information related to V1.0 – new help topics will be made
available at www.fluke.com shortly.

Fluke Energy Analyze V1.0

Initial Release
FAQ
2023-07-27: FAQ items that date back to early versions of Energy Analyze (Windows XP) have been
removed.
Appendix 1 “Energy Loss Calculator”
The Energy Loss Calculator feature – available on Fluke 177x instruments – helps you pin-point different
types of losses in your electrical installation. For this purpose, the total power consumption is broken
down into components that can be assigned to specific causes as shown in the table below.

Three-phase motors
The only useful power for a three-phase motor is the positive-sequence fundamental active power P1+.
PU and PD are real losses and could even damage the motor. Nevertheless, customers usually pay for
PU and PD as well as for P1+. The relation between useful power P1+ and total received power S can be
shown as:
S2 = (P1+)2 + (Q1+)2 + SU2 + SD2

Single-phase motors
For three single phase motors on a three-phase network, the useful power is the fundamental active
power P1. The relation between useful Power P1 and total received power S can be shown as:
S2 = P12 + Q12 + NU2 + SD2

Heating, Lighting and Recitifiers

For these types of loads, all active power will likely be used so the useful power will bi the full active
power P. The relation between useful power P and total received power S can be shown as:
S2 = P2 + Q12 + NU2 + ND2

General loads
Once the components of active power that are turned into useful power for a particular load are
known, the power relation formulae from the table above can be used for efficiency calculations.
The most generic relation, however, is given by:
S2 = P2 + N2
F177x and FEA+ utilize these components to show the relation between useful active power and loss
components in a summary view (“Energy Loss Overview”, left) and for different types of loads (“Load
dependent table”, right).