Fifty Caliber E-mail
ASResearch got back to me with a detailed answer on my HIPOT question. It was better than I could have hoped for…
I appreciate you emailing me this question. If your unit is equipped with GFI your shut down times are has follows:
450 Micro amps trip point to earth
Shut down is < 1 milli seconds (.001 seconds)
Hopefully this answers your question.
Rene
Why yes my HIPOT tester is equipped with Ground Fault Interrupter (GFI). So what does this mean? Basically if you placed your tongue on the unit while it was being fried with two thousand volts DC and it shorted to ground the power shut down is so fast you probably would not feel a slight tingle. During a worst-case scenario electrical failure this equipment is totally safe.
Miss Auschwitz will of course be enraged when she discovers the RF Sources department disregards her Cone Of Silence safety initiative. Earlier this week I took an opportunity to brief the Bossman on this idiotic situation. As expected when I mentioned Miss Auschwitz invaded our instrument line again he was immediately disgusted. He approved of my plan to get rid of her post haste. So, when I forwarded the ASResearch email response to the Bossman I received the following reply:
Ya gotta love the ammo. Hopefully we won’t have to use it, but if we do I’ll pretend it’s a mother fucking 50 caliber automatic.
uhm why would you put your tongue on it? even if you were hard up it’s a bad idea! go to the cone of deviant electrosexual miscreants!