Test Lab Electrical

[BMacky]

I'm looking for someone to chat with regarding testing labs and designing services for their varying power requirements.

My customer started out needing a dedicated 20-amp circuit here and there, next 240V, then 3-phase, and now they have some wild test requirements generating high current for millisecond bursts for testing a sensor. They say they will control the timing part of this one, but I'm wondering what to do with the transformers they bought, mainly from a safety standpoint where there are exposed parts.

If you've had experience responding to requests where you need to pull power from existing services into a lab for test equipment, and you've been tasked with configuring all the feeders, safety switches, transformers, cables, etc. I'd like to discuss this scenario and see what your plan of attack would be.

Thanks.

Bob

 

[satcom]

I'm looking for someone to chat with regarding testing labs and designing services for their varying power requirements.

My customer started out needing a dedicated 20-amp circuit here and there, next 240V, then 3-phase, and now they have some wild test requirements generating high current for millisecond bursts for testing a sensor. They say they will control the timing part of this one, but I'm wondering what to do with the transformers they bought, mainly from a safety standpoint where there are exposed parts.

If you've had experience responding to requests where you need to pull power from existing services into a lab for test equipment, and you've been tasked with configuring all the feeders, safety switches, transformers, cables, etc. I'd like to discuss this scenario and see what your plan of attack would be.

Thanks.

Bob

Our first shop was in the old Lab Power Building where they built lab panels for schools

 

[petersonra]

We build a fair amount of test equipment for one of our customers.

They have a lot of experience in what they really need and usually have a better handle on what is safe and workable than I do.

As for exposed live parts, I am not a fan. Polycarbonate can make a reasonable insulating barrier. It is cheap, and easy to bend.