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DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT & TEST SERVICES

Blazepoint, through personal consultation and with many years experience in their field, provide practical cost-effective solutions; our experienced design engineers quickly understand your product enabling them to identify potential issues. Everything from materials and products used to the final configured solution is considered leaving you, our client, with products and services you can totally rely on.

Blazepoint's integrated approach validates the design and production processes. Blazepoint operate a Quality Management System to ISO9001:2000 and approved by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).

SERVICES

Blazepoint are able to offer a broad range of services including the following activities:

  • Pre-compliance testing
  • EMC design support
  • Environmental design support
  • EMC Testing
  • Environmental Testing
  • Equipment modification
  • EMC fault finding and repair
  • EMC assessment of components and systems
  • Support in preparing Technical Construction Files (TCF)
  • Support in selecting appropriate standards
  • Support in the preparation of responses to Invitations To Tender (ITT)
  • TEMPEST Consultation and testing

TEST EQUIPMENT

Blazepoint have comprehensive in-house test facilities, calibrated and traceable to national and international standards, which include the following:

  • Derritron VP85 electromagnetic vibrator
  • TW3000 power amplifier
  • DACTRON Comet Shaker Control System
  • Votsch Climatic Test Chamber VC4100 ((-40ºC to +180ºC and 10% to 98% Humidity)
  • Hedinair Temperature Test Cell (-50ºC to +100ºC)
  • Rainford fully ferrite lined EMC cell 3 metres high - 3 metres wide - 7 metres long
  • EMCO 5511 GTEM Cell
  • EMC Emissions and Immunity Software
  • Hewlett Packard 8591EM Analyser
  • Marconi 2022D Signal Generator
  • RF Power Amplifiers from 15KHz to 1GHz
  • Comprehensive support test equipment
  • Antennas from 10KHZ to 2GHz
  • DSI9000 automated EMC test system
  • Marconi spectrum analyser

ENVIRONMENTAL TEST CAPABILITIES

Blazepoint offer services to test equipment over a wide range of environmental conditions to commercial, industrial and military standards including:

  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Vibration
  • Shock

EMC TEST CAPABILITIES

Blazepoint offer services to test equipment over a wide range Emission and Immunity requirements to commercial, industrial and military standards including:

  • EMC Emissions both radiated and conducted
  • EMC Susceptibility both radiated and conducted
  • Electrostatic Discharge Immunity (ESD)
  • Power Line Surges
  • TEMPEST

TEST STANDARDS

The standards these tests can be performed against depend on the nature of the equipment but include:

Environmental:

BS EN 60068 (was BS2011), MIL STD 810, NES 1004, DEF STAN 07-55 DEF, STAN 00-35

EMC:

BS EN55022, BS EN55024, BS EN 61000-3, BS EN 61000-4, CISPR 16, CISPR 22, DEF STAN 59-41, MIL STD 461

Safety:

EN60950

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