[Amps] questions about hi pot tester

[Barrie Smith]

Commander!

I was in much the same position, in that I had gathered almost all that I
needed to build a hipot, but the filter caps kept getting away, especially
price-wise.

I ended up buying a commercial unit on EBay, in the "Industrial Electronics"
section.

Continusously variable voltage from zero to 15 KV, variable load from 2
microamps on up, two big meters and looks as if it had never been used.

$100.00, shipping included.

73, Barrie, W7ALW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Commander John" <crazytvjohn at yahoo.com>
To: "Steve Katz" <stevek at jmr.com>
Cc: <Amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] questions about hi pot tester


> The application is to ham radio related stuff. Not commercial.  I do not
know what I may need to test in the future, so I do not know what to get in
a tester.
>
>   john w9zy
>
> Steve Katz <stevek at jmr.com> wrote:
>   What's the application?
>
> A lot of off-the-shelf hipot testers for consumer electronic equipment
> stop at 6kVdc (because that's the limit of the requirement for
> compliance testing on a 240V circuit) and that's not nearly high enough
> voltage to test, say, a high power transmitting tube.
>
> Are you looking to do compliance testing, which requires a stipulated
> ramp time, dwell time and leakage limit? Or just to see where stuff
> flashes over? How high a voltage?
>
> WB2WIK/6
>
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