ELECTRONICS TESTING: EMC TESTING
facility is available to the public and recently worked with Bramble Energy, a renewable energy innovator, to prepare its hydrogen fuel cell generator for compliance test. The state-of-the-art facility is located in
Test lab aids fuel cell S
ussex technology manufacturer Paxton has an in-house facility to test electrical products or hardware, speeding up product development and launches. The
facility, they have tested a large variety of products. “Many of the companies have started working with us due to our almost immediate availability, compared with six- to eight-week lead-times nationally,” he adds.
the Paxton Technology Centre, Brighton, East Sussex, where the international manufacturer invents, designs, develops and tests its products ready for launch into 63 countries. The test facility also supports businesses that need product testing, saying it offers shorter lead times compared to general test houses in the UK. Easy to book using the Paxton test facility’s website, a team of in-house engineers is available to assist testing if required, providing extra convenience to manufacturers. Brett Glass, Paxton’s compliance manager, oversees the day-to-day running of the facility. He says: “Our vision has been to create a test facility that helps us, and other manufacturers, get their products tested quickly and efficiently to support product launches.”
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MODERN FACILITIES Paxton’s modern facility has been designed and built using industry leading equipment. This includes an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) chamber for manufacturers which need to perform emission and immunity tests at 3m. The company also has equipment to carry out electrostatic discharge (ESD), surge, transients and power quality tests. Additionally, Paxton has installed various
environmental chambers to test the impact to products from environmental factors including UV, moisture, cold, humidity and heat. These powerful machines perform stress tests to determine a product’s expected lifespan and can be used to test the suitability of components during the design process.
According to Glass, many of Paxton’s clients are testing their new designs with the
company because its lead times are shorter than all the national test houses. Taking into account that 50 per cent of products fail EMC testing the first time around, the pre- compliance testing offered can really be of benefit to keep a product launch timely and on track. “Another benefit of our test facility is that our engineering team is very experienced. Each of our engineers has over 20 years of experience in testing products, so we are able to use that experience to help our customers through the testing process,” sayys Glass. “Ultimately, the test facility aims to be
efficient and cost effective to both large and small businesses. We like to be flexible and take a best effort approach for our customers.”
HYDROGEN FUEL CELL GENERATOR, BRAMBLE ENERGY Recently, the test facility evaluated a hydrogen fuel cell generator to prepare it for EMC compliance test. Bramble Energy, the designer and manufacturer of the product, is an innovator in renewable energy technologies, designing and manufacturing high-performance, low-cost, hydrogen fuel
Paxton test facility in Brighton, East Sussex assists Bramble Energy to prepare a hydrogen fuel cell He went on to say that since opening the
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