Electrical safety testers—often referred to as “hipot” testers—are an integral part of electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing. Hipot testers get their name from the high-potential (high ...

The HAL104 hipot tester from Clare Instruments combines the performance of a multifunction production-line safety tester with load and power-factor measurement for product energy-consumption and ...

Hipot data? That is an oxymoron. A hipot test, also known as dielectric breakdown, is a simple test: Apply high voltage to the insulation barrier of the DUT and ensure there is no breakdown. It is a ...

I once designed a product for Avaya, a 1U x 19" rack with an open-framed OEM power supply. Yields were good at first. Later, HIPOT (high-potential) testing started to fail on random units at a 10 ...