Quadtech Updates Electrical Safety Testing Guide, Publishes New Articles
23 October 2007
QuadTech, a leading provider of electrical safety test and passive component measurement solutions, today announced the release of its updated Electrical Safety Testing (EST) Guide. QuadTech engineers have also authored feature articles in MD&DI Magazine and Conformity Magazine.
Just released, QuadTech's EST Guide, 5th Edition provides information on product safety tests, operator safety and test equipment. Additionally, it contains a listing of compliance agencies.
The fifth edition also adds expanded information on EST topics such as:
- New safety standard requirements
- Connection to DUT, including custom fixtures
- IEC60601 third edition
- Updated hipot tester features
- Failure mode/troubleshooting
- Calibration, verification and routine check
- Updated tester information
- Updated standards list
QuadTech's EST guide serves as a strong introduction to electrical safety testing and is an excellent training tool for companies and its employees. The EST Guide, fifth edition is available here.
QuadTech engineers Jeff St Onge and Robert M Brown have authored articles featured in publications in June and August, respectively. The June issue of MD&DI featured "Leakage-Current Testing for Patient-Monitoring". The article, written by Jeff St Onge, Chief Engineer, QuadTech Medical Division, discusses the complicated testing requirements of IEC 60601-2-49. A copy of that article is available here.
St Onge also authored a whitepaper on IEC60601-1 third edition leakage current differences, which ties into his MD&I article. A copy of this whitepaper is available here.
Robert M Brown, VP Technical Operations at QuadTech, along with James Conrad, an independent EMC consultant, and Frank O'Brien, a principle of O'Brien Compliance Management, authored an article featured in the August issue of Conformity magazine. "What's New in EMC Standards for Medical Devices" discusses changes in EMC standards for medical devices. A copy of the article can be found here.
