Acton, MA. CAMI Research Inc. has announced a new board for its CableEye cable and harness testing systems. Populated with four 16-pole screw terminal blocks, the board addresses high voltage (HiPot) testing to 2,100 VDC/1,200 VAC. Of particular interest to the harness testing market, the CB29H is also available as a transition board variant (CB29AH).
CAMI offers the CableEye suite of low and high voltage products complete with accessories including connector boards. The selection of boards is constantly growing and is currently numbering over 60—most of which are populated with families of connectors. These connectors are shown graphically correct with CableEye’s standard dynamic user interface.
The CB29H and CB29AH boards are high-voltage versions of the CB29 with the high-voltage traces running on inner layers to afford additional safety, and protection from contamination. Each contains four 16-pole screw terminal blocks that will accept bare wires from 12 to 30 gauge in size. The metal jaws firmly grip an inserted wire without damaging or distorting the end, and the space between each terminal block may be used as a wire channel to guide wires neatly to the side. For each channel, a pair of holes is provided through which wire ties may be inserted to hold the wire bundles in place.
The CB29AH serves as a transition board between wire harness mating connectors and the Cable Eye tester and is intended for use with an AMPMODU discrete wire extension cable. The board is mounted on or under a harness board loom, and may be stacked for greater capacity.
Sold as a set of two boards, each test board may be paired with other CableEye adapter boards to accommodate any combination of connectors. A bare-board option, CB29HB, is also available if you wish to add your own terminal blocks or use it, for example, as an adapter cable interface. The board footprint includes hole patterns for both 5-mm (0.197”) hole spacing for each of the four rows, so any type of terminal block with this spacing can be accommodated.
Customers requiring this board typically have products that are being HiPot tested above 1,500 VDC and include those prototyping and manufacturing harnesses.
Connector boards are included in CableEye’s standard, renewable one-year warranty of the tester for which it was purchased.
Available immediately, a CB29H set is $295 (Item 759H), a CB29AH set $295 (Item 759AH), and a CB29HB set $245 (Item 759HB). The AMPMODU extension cable (Item 863A) is $95 for a 1-ft length. For additional lengths, add $6/ft.
CAMI Research produces expandable and upgradable pass/fail and diagnostic cable and harness test systems for assembly, prototyping, production, and QC of standard or custom cables. CableEye Testers display and document basic electrical properties such as continuity, resistance, dielectric breakdown, insulation resistance, miswires, and intermittent defects.
