A blog exploring electrical cable testing guidelines, best practices, and advice for getting started with your testing process.
If you can afford it, want more accurate tests, and would like to build your company’s reputation, we recommend looking into high voltage testing.
Insulation can absorb moisture from humidity in the air, increasing the probability of an insulation resistance failure.
Many cable and harness shops have found barcode scanners to be a convenient way to avoid mistakes and save time when assembling cables and harnesses.
Solid copper wire is expensive, but pay less and you might end up with copper-clad aluminum.
Fixturing is the word Cirris uses to describe the intermediate cables that connect the tester to the cables you test.
The intermittents test continuously runs low voltage tests to give the operator a chance to move the cable around and look for errors.
Cirris testers are built to keep workers safe, but there are still steps shops can take to help ensure no one is injured in any way.
Cirris has several ways of helping you determine how much wire is still on the spool.
Unexpected capacitance can cause false failures in your cables.
Fixturing must be built to provide a way to connect the cable to the tester.
High voltage test errors can be complex and confusing if you don’t know what each result means. A basic overview can clear up a lot of the confusion.
Use the following practices to help when testing twisted pairs.
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