Cable Testing Information Center
Cable Testing Overview:
- High Voltage (Hipot) Testing
- Hipot Testing FAQ - Introduction to Hipot Testing
- AC Hipot Testing
- Collection of High Voltage Topics
- Ideas for Improving Hipot Safety
- IR Compression Errors
- Insulation Failures
- Capacitance
- High Voltage testing & Components
- Guidelines for Using Voltage to Detect Insulation Defects
- Rules for Selecting Connectors for Your Fixturing
- Understanding High Voltage Testing of Cables with Components.
- Ohm's Law Calculator for High Voltage Testing.
- Compare Cirris Testers Page
- Low Voltage (Continuity) Testing
- Testing Failures
- Understanding Cable Test Results
- Flux Can Cause Defects in Cables
- Flux Can Cause Insulation Defects in Cables
- Causes of Bad Connections
- Causes of Bad Insulation
- Verify Test Programs BEFORE Testing
- What is Dry Circuit Testing?
- Strategies to prevent Shipment of Defective Cables
- Testing Intermittent Connections
- Continuous Improvement and First-Pass-Yield (4 part series)
How do I do this?
- How do I - Find the Length of my Spooled wire?
- How do I - Backup All My Wirelists or Test Files?
- How do I - Pin all my Connectors Correctly?
- How do I - Continuously Improve my First-Pass-Yield?
- How do I - Setup and Use Networking Made Easy?
- How do I - Make & Use Harness Board Templates?
- How do I - Know my Test Fixturing is Good?
- How do I - Build Harness Board Fixtures Using easy-wire Components?
- How do I - Prevent Bad Cables from Getting Shipped to my Customers?
- How do I - Improve Hipot Testing Safety?
Guidelines for Testing Cables and Harnesses (Voltages, Currents, Resistances)
- A-620 Cable Testing Standards
- Guidelines for Setting Resistance Testing Thresholds
- Guidelines for Low Voltage Tests
- Guidelines for Production Testing of Wired Assemblies
- Guidelines for Using Voltage to Detect Insulation Defects
Strategies to solve Cable Testing Problems:
- Testing for Broken Strands with Current.
- Testing for Broken Strands with Resistance.
- Strategies to prevent Shipment of Defective Cables
- Lean "One Piece Flow" and Verifying Labels on Discrete Wires
- Using Digital-I/O - Adding common I/O features to your tests
- Script Creation - Developing Custom Test Applications
- Using Scripts for Custom Testing
- Guided Assembly with easy-wire
- Guidelines for Testing Components (Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes etc)
- Second Side Pinning with Guided Assembly
- Testing Intermittent Connections
- Understanding Twisted Pair Testing
- Understanding and Testing SCSI Terminators (Touch 1)
Reference Information & Online Calculators
- Ohm's Law Calculator for High Voltage Testing.
- Estimating the length of wire using a Resistance calculator.
- Maximum current a wire can carry - online calculator
- High voltage arc distance - an online calculator
- What is the Resistance of wire? - an online calculator.
- Estimating the resistance of wires in your DUT - an online calculator
- Estimating the capacitance of wires in your DUT - an online calculator
- The temperature coefficient of copper
- Table of common pull strengths (per wire size)