FPGA based hand-held high voltage testing equipment

Abstract

Electrical appliances that operate at high voltages require customized tests based on the appliance rating and insulation range to ensure the safety and wastage of current. This system will focus on a custom Virtual Instrumentation technique for testing key parameters and validating the machine based on its specifications/name plate details. Hardware section of this instrument will operate in tandem with a user configured Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and provide documented results from LabVIEW about the health of the device under test. The Virtual Instrument used in this system is National Instrument Single-Board RIO (NI sbRIO) which provides real time limelight on unique feature of an application. This system focus on efficient usage of High Voltage for the specified applications, improves the time and reduces the complexity of system using the latest advancement in Virtual Instrumentation.