CORRECTION: ... we do use EN 61010-1 almost ...
eric.lif...@ni.com Sent by: To: emc-p...@ieee.org owner-emc-pstc@majordom cc: o.ieee.org Subject: Re: Manufacturing Hipot Testing 08/20/2001 05:14 PM Please respond to eric.lifsey Interesting points. This provoked me to look again into a standard that I've examined but never used, BS EN 50178:1998, Electronic equipment for use in power installations. It covers safety, EMC, and environmental conditions. It is 99 pages long, it's informative Annex A starts on page 72, so more that 25% of the standard is informative. However, we do use EN 61616-1 almost exclusively and have routinely specified hipot testing, and it does't hurt that we also have the explicit encouragement of a 3rd party approval. Back to topic. Our manufacturing people view the hipot test as useful for detecting defects, possibly because the hipot tester and control software are linked into a database which makes operating and tracking the results of this test automatic. I wonder if it wasn't for the software/database linkage that the hipot test might not enjoy as much acceptance by manufacturing. If the hipot test is made easy to set and operate, then it might be considered useful rather than some arcane obligation. Eric Lifsey National Instruments ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.