Special Report: Electrical safety test vendors packing value-adds into solutions (.PDF Download)

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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.

“Today’s electrical safety testers are far easier to use than ever before,” Vitrek founder and application specialist Kevin Clark told Evaluation Engineering. “This advancement has been made possible by the use of color touch displays that take the guesswork out of operating a complex multifunction safety analyzer. A touchscreen, graphical user interface walks the user through test set-up, recall and operation—both speeding up the process and simplifying it.”