Automatic Test System for Type Tests of the Uninterruptible Power Supply

 Aalto university school of electrical engineering HELSINKI FINLAND
 Abstract of the master's thesis
 Author: Esa Nummijoki Title: Automatic Test System for Type Tests of the Uninterruptible Power  Supply Date: 27.3.2012 Language: English
 Number of pages:10+59 Department of Electrical Engineering Professorship: Industrial Electronics Code: S-81
 Supervisor: Prof. Seppo J. Ovaska Instructor: M.Sc. (Tech.) Risto Karola
Testing is an essential part of product development. In UPS product development, di erent tests are made every day. Testing requires large variety of measurement instruments and other equipment such as large load systems and di erent kind of test con gurations. Signi cant number of performed tests are based on the UPS type tests de ned in the IEC-62040 standard. Testing consumes a lot of time and that way also resources. To solve this problem, an automatic test system for type tests is considered. The aim of this thesis was to clarify the need for the automatic test system, and clarify requirements needed to realize it. The work was done by reviewing the type tests and di erent parts of an automatic test system. In addition, an experimentation was made, resulting a prototype. The prototype is able to automatically perform an indicative e ciency test for the UPS. Furthermore, a possibility to automate the most complex type test, a dynamic output performance test, was examined. This examination resulted a description of the test process and LabVIEW programs, supporting the execution of the test. However, the conclusion was that it is not sensible to automate the test, due to the fact that it is not often performed and automating the test requires a lot of time and resources. The review and the experimentation proved that realization of an automatic test system, able to perform all the type tests, requires large amount of time and resources. Due to this, the automatic test system for type tests is not the best solution to reduce the time and resources consumed by testing.
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