Short circuits, overheating, electric shock – electrical equipment always poses a certain risk. To ensure safe operation, strict international guidelines and standards apply to all kinds of electrical devices. Our tests help you to meet these standards – and give your products higher quality and greater safety.
Any company selling electrical products must also guarantee that they are absolutely safe and, crucially, in the event of faults or failure, must be able to prove which measures were taken to ensure product safety. “The legislator gives manufacturers several options here”, says Stephan Sobola, Head of Electrical Safety at Treo. “The safest option for any manufacturer to prove to the authorities or a court that they comply with safety regulations is to provide a normative product testing certificate.”
We offer the appropriate tests: high-quality, simple and according to the relevant standards.
Convenient test bundles for product conformity
Electrical safety has long been one of our compliance services. As technology and the associated testing standards evolve at an ever faster pace, we have adapted and expanded our range of services.
As well as insulation resistance and high-voltage tests, we now also offer protective conductor resistance, leakage current and protective conductor current measurements. You can book the tests individually or as a complete test.
Tests are offered in three options: S, M and L.
- Option S offers the developer initial insights into the safety of the device and offers a basic level of safety.
- Option M includes all partial tests for the basic components of the standard that can be conducted with reasonable effort.
- Option L is a complete test of the device in compliance with normative requirements. In this option, all tests required for the device according to the standards are performed.
Typical product standards are e.g. EN 61010-1, EN 62368-1 and EN 60598-1.
The standards for these tests are particularly high. This is due to the fact that electrical devices are exposed to very different loads during their service life, including extreme temperatures, mechanical overloads or high humidity. The devices themselves can also pose a variety of hazards, ranging from short circuits to electric shocks and extreme heating, faults which can lead to the device igniting and causing a fire.
Testing the electrical safety of devices is one of the core modules of our services, alongside environmental simulation testing, material testing and EMF testing: “What’s the good of a device that withstands environmental stress, is stable and emits very little in the way of electromagnetic fields if the user gets an electric shock and is injured?”, says Sobola, who conducts the tests.
At Treo, we offer you all these tests from a single source, including test reports. In the event that the device does become faulty, this gives you all the documentation required to prove compliance with all guidelines and standards.
