Oscilloscope for power testing

This will tell you very little. You really need a signal recorder to look at what you getting over a longer period of time. Something like a digital oscillograph.

My opinion, save your time and money. Everyone getting their hackles up over power conditioning reminds me of a pack of dogs barking at the moon. Your equipment is designed to run off line power. The 1st thing your equipment does is rectify and filter the AC line voltage to the DC voltages required for circuits. Power condtioning advocates will say, "but modern day power supplies are underdesigned". Hogwash. It reminds me of people who claim your colon is filled with junk accumulated over decades of you life. So you need their special enema program. Trust me your power line does not need an enema.

Jon

But for your own edification, if you should need to get a power recorder. Rent one from Electrorent or some other place. I recommend a Reliable Power meter or something similar.

I would recommend that you look at your electrical system and determine if you have whole house surge suppression at the main panel. If not, install some. Then look at installing a secondary unit at your AV rack to protect the equipment there from let through voltages after the main panel. I would spend money here first. If you don't currently have a problem with power, then I wouldn't spend the money to fix it.

Yes, I was going to say either rent the device or call up your power company. You can often get them to come out and measure the quality of your incoming power (if you have a "problem")...

About all most power companies will tell you is whether the voltages are within their tolerances.

Are you guys referring to a data logger?

http://us.fluke.com/usen/products/Fluke+VR101S.htm?catalog_name=FlukeUnitedStates&Category=PQTTOP(FlukeProducts)

Hey that looks pretty slick, too bad they don't list the price online. But it certainly would work for this purpose.

Any idea how much it is? I might recomend one to our field tech's.

This is true. They typically will not provide you information....especially if they are outside of tariff levels.

Those units are interesting, but they have poor tolerance. I am referring to the RPM units which Fluke bought some time ago. Look under Reliable Power Meters.