Test-management software controls AC power sources
-- Test & Measurement World, 5/21/2008 12:12:00 PM
Pacific Power Source has added the new Test Manager feature to its UPC (Universal Programmable Controller) Studio Version 1.3 graphical software tool for controlling the vendor’s line of AC power sources. UPC Studio Test Manager helps the user create and run test sequences and test plans. The new release’s test-sequences feature is designed to execute a series of automated tasks that control and monitor an AC power source and other instruments; it can send test results to user-defined test reports. The test-plans feature allows a user to link together a series of test sequences by using prompts, user controls, Visual Basic scripts, and other techniques.
With Test Manager, the user can automate instrument compliance and certification testing as well as obtain preconfigured test sequences and test plans from the vendor, including sequences that support avionics compliance testing in accordance with MIL-STD-704 and RTCA DO-160.
The new Test Manager features complement previous UPC Studio features such as a waveform editor, the ability to measure and graph voltage and current harmonics to customer-specified limits, and the ability to provide precise control of transients within output sequences. In addition to controlling and monitoring an AC power source, UPC Studio can be used to generate and view offline simulation files, enabling a user to observe steady-state waveforms and programmed transients before applying power to the equipment under test.
The basic UPC Studio is free. Activation of the Test Manager feature costs $1750, and factory-written test sequences start at $500.
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