[Steaky] did, and unfortunately for him the smoke was coming not from his circuit being tested but from a £2300 Clare H101 HiPot tester. His write-up details his search for the culprit ...

Hipot testers are electrical safety test devices that perform electrical compliance tests. Within the general category of electrical safety testing are a variety of equipment types that are ...

OMNIA ® II Model 8256 provides AC Hipot (500 VA), DC Hipot, Insulation Resistance, Ground Bond / Continuity, Functional Run, and Line Leakage tests in a single DUT connection. The 8256 comes standard ...

They built a series of boards holding 500 REF5010s for a 5KV reference, and stacked 20 of them to make a 100KV reference. These boards were mounted in a tower looking not unlike the Tesla coils we ...

This is known as the motor’s kV rating. kV is simply motor RPM per volt of input. A 100kV motor will spin at 100 rpm when a single volt is applied to it, 500 RPM at 5V, etc. Electric drive units ...