SAFETY FIRST

摘要

As various applications see demands rise for power usage, power density, and efficiency, the need to test for electrical safety goes hand-in-hand. Software continues to play a growing role in helping automate these tests, while vendors of instrumentation in this field are challenged to keep up current industry standards, and design with future standards in mind. Hipot, insulation-resistance (IR), ground-resistance, and ground-bond (GB) testing are all critical elements of measuring electrical safety across various industries. Thankfully, technology has enabled electrical product safety test instruments user-friendly-increasingly leaving it up to the user's interpretation or "gut" feeling. Guess-work is an enemy of product safety testing, after all.