The right equipment for standard-compliant testing.
Covering 1,300 m² of space, Phoenix Contact operates a modern, high-performance, accredited laboratory which is specially designed for testing surge protective devices. Here, among other things, disruptive events can be imitated, such as those that occur in the case of lightning strikes, switching operations or electrostatic discharge.
The new building houses high-voltage and high-current laboratories with offices for development, design, and marketing under one roof. The laboratory space, which covers around 1,300 m2, is tailored specifically to the technological and safety requirements of testing technology and satisfies almost all internationally standardized requirements of established certification authorities.
Thanks to the testing facilities, the technology center in Blomberg may be regarded as the world’s best equipped laboratory for surge protective devices.
The testing systems in the laboratory are able to generate surge currents and surge voltages with different pulse shapes. Even mains frequency short-circuit currents and DC currents can be generated, by means of the finely adjustable voltage.
A special feature of the laboratory is that the powerful power supply system can be coupled with surge current generators. This enables a realistic environment to be created for testing surge protective devices.
Tests with surge current pulses up to 100 kA (8/20) μs in combination with a powerful alternating current source on surge protective devices are possible here.
The test simulates the operating behavior of the protective devices and their interaction with the power supply system in the event of a overvoltage.
Alongside this special test for surge protective devices, the test laboratory can be used universally for single- to three-phase applications.
The test laboratory is accredited based on DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025. This standard describes the “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories”. The Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle (Germany's National Accreditation Body) has verified and confirmed that the requirements of ISO 17025 have been implemented and met.
The accreditation certifies:
Test reports from accredited test laboratories are widely accepted internationally.
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