Insulation failure is a leading cause of electrical fires and system downtime, often occurring silently before any visible ...

Vitrek has plenty more options to back that up. The Poway, CA-based company offers 14 different models of electrical safety testers to handle a wide variety of testing applications. The aforementioned ...

UTGIS recently launched H2Volt, the first standardized contact voltage safety testing program for pools, marinas, and other public water features such as large fountains. "To the best of our knowledge ...

Everywhere we look in our everyday lives, from our bench to our bedroom, there are the ubiquitous electrical cords of mains-powered appliances. We don’t give our electrical devices a second thought, ...

Complex grids depend on equipment such as transformers, protection relays, switchgear, and cables—each of which can develop faults not immediately visible during normal operation. As a result, ...

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 ...

Look over your main electrical panel and the area surrounding it. You should have three feet of clear space around the panel, and an easy-to-find, battery-operated light source available for when the ...

The Model 4320 4-in-1 electrical safety tester from Slaughter now offers an RS-232 interface as an optional feature to allow direct connection to a PC. Not only does the serial interface allow you to ...

Chroma System Solutions announced that its full line ofelectrical safety test equipment and systems is now available directly fromChroma in North America. For decades, Chromahas been manufacturing ...

This change raises the stakes. Facilities can no longer treat electrical maintenance as a “check-the-box” exercise. Instead, they must adopt proactive strategies that go beyond the letter of the code, ...

An Impulse Voltage Generator is a specialized high-voltage test system designed to generate standard lightning impulse or switching impulse waveforms. These waveforms are applied to electrical ...

Thousands of homes have not had their electrics inspected for more than five years ...