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Article: Stringent testing ensures immunity to power-line disruptions. (includes related article on creating predictable power) (Design Feature) (technical)
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- EDN
- Article date:
- October 13, 1988
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Stringent testing ensures immunity to power-line disruptions When equipment that uses mains power must be completely reliable, you need to be able to test the system thooughly for its tolerance to power-line disturbances. But you need to know how and why these disturbances occur before you can set up a good test and develop some rigorous methods for qualifying your system. You also need to take international standards into account. What's more, you ought to customize your test to a particular system, so you need to know how your particular system tolerates disturbances.
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