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Electronics => Manufacturing & Assembly => Topic started by: ocset on November 22, 2017, 03:38:16 pm
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Hello,
We need an end-of-line tester for our offline led lamps production line. (40 to 150W)
All it does is take the impedance between Mains Live/Neutral and Earth.
-And yet it costs £6000.
Why are they so expensive?
Do you know of a cheaper one?
Our production staff are having to share one and they are almost having fights with each other over it.
We desperately need another one.
Do you know of a cheap one?
:scared:
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We have the same fights in production, other departments keep stealing our tester because they broke theirs.
We have a Fluke 1662 type, far cheaper than what your saying. BY high voltage, how high are you wanting?
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Without knowing anything else about your scenario, if you need to simply measure insulation would a basic UT513A work? It is a decent insulation meter (I have a UT513 non-A) in the range of a Fluke 1550C - it probably is not as sturdy as the Fluke but it gets the job done.
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GW Instek GPT-9803 is only 1950€ (+VAT)
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All it does is take the impedance between Mains Live/Neutral and Earth.
Can you use a megger tester? If so, there are many models that let you select the testing voltage.
They vary in price from very cheap to reasonable.
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Without knowing anything else about your scenario, if you need to simply measure insulation would a basic UT513A work? It is a decent insulation meter (I have a UT513 non-A) in the range of a Fluke 1550C - it probably is not as sturdy as the Fluke but it gets the job done.
i have a UT512, i find it to be highly inaccurate. i ended up putting the HV thru a uA meter to get an idea of the "insulation leak". does anybody else also use it in this way like me?