The EMC Shop stocks transient generators for most conducted immunity test standards, industries and products under test.
Transient generators are electronic machines that generate an electrical event or phenomena, such as a lightning strike or a sag in power. They are connected into the power and data ports of the latest greatest electronic product and exposed to the electrical “transients” to evaluate how a product will respond. Common failures will be that the product's internal power supply will burn up and possibly damage additional electronics down the line.
WHAT'S THE POINT?
Engineering groups captured common transients and developed the test standards that specify the electrical waveform and characteristics of those events. Occasionally, products will pass these standards but still have failures in the real world. It may take some time to circle back to these transient tests, but people will measure unique transients in the wild and have to develop a clever solution to resolve it. Most transient generators allow for some manipulation of the electrical events but duplicating every event found isn’t possible.
