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how did you protect your lab setup?

Jan Cumps

Participants, now that the experiment is reaching its end: What safety measures did you take when dealing with mains voltages?

I'm starting a road test for a mains powered Flyback design. I'm looking for advice from the players that used their "real mains" to power the experiments.

Things I have at the moment

  • formal education to deal with mains powers
  • a handheld oscilloscope that's isolated and has safe connections
  • a high-voltage differential probe
  • a bench meter that can measure 10 A AC current, and is CAT III 

Did you take other/additional safety measures?

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    I would have suggested a perspex (acrylic) sandwich (with plastic hex spacers), to protect against accidentally putting fingers in the way, plus it protects against things popping in face, however, the board has no mounting holes, which makes that harder. : ( I keep sheets of perspex handy for making them into bases or covers, and would have been happy to drill a couple for you to the precise holes, but I can't see there's any mounting holes from the datasheet.

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    I would have suggested a perspex (acrylic) sandwich (with plastic hex spacers), to protect against accidentally putting fingers in the way, plus it protects against things popping in face, however, the board has no mounting holes, which makes that harder. : ( I keep sheets of perspex handy for making them into bases or covers, and would have been happy to drill a couple for you to the precise holes, but I can't see there's any mounting holes from the datasheet.

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