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Manufacturers of high reliability circuit
boards for certain switching and power-supply equipment must test boards at
very high voltages. Traditionally
these tests were done manually -- an operator would contact certain points on
each board with long insulated hand-held probes. Many boards require testing multiple pairs
of points. Some pairs require holding
the probes steady during a 30-second test.
Tired operators often missed faults and ruined boards by scratching
them. GCA solved this problem by
developing a complete computer-controlled testing system. At the heart of the system is an adaptor
that accepts fixtures that easy to build and inexpensive. Each fixture adapts one circuit design to
the tester connections. The fixture
contains a set of spring-loaded test probes that make contact with the
specific test points of one board. The
computer controls how voltage is applied to sets of test probes and records
the results of each test. The computer
can concurrently test multiple point-pairs to save testing time. GCA's test system
has replaced a manual, error-prone and dangerous testing operation with one
that is safe, foolproof, auditable and many times faster. |
High Voltage Circuit Isolation Testing |
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