Course Highlights
  • Understand electrical product safety concepts, classifications and terminology
  • Understand the most important electrical safety requirements for an electrical/electronics product design project
  • Understand the concepts of clearance, creepage and solid insulation and be able to design the related safety measures
  • Understand the importance of critical components and be able to verify if such components are properly certified/approved. Examples with transformers and capacitors
  • Understand IP protection against ingress of water and solid parts and properly choose the best solution for a particular design
  • Be able to draw insulation diagrams, a very important tool for product development, in order to represent the insulation strategy and the product compliance
  • Be able to find and use technical international standards with respect to electrical products safety
  • Understand where the safety aspect learned in the course belong in the product design/development lifecycle
  • Examples with households appliances design
  • Properly set clerance and creepage values in PCB design CADs, like Eagle Layout PCB Design software (contents applicable also to other CADs software)
Curriculum

1 Topic
COURSE INTRODUCTION

5 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF CURRENT AND ELECTRICAL MODEL OF HUMAN BODY
INSULATION (OR ISOLATION)
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
GENERAL SAFETY REQUIREMENT CLAUSE AND DOUBLE IMPROBABILITY & SECTION WRAP UP
Body Resistance

6 Topics
FUNCTIONAL INSULATION
BASIC INSULATION
SUPPLEMENTARY INSULATION
DOUBLE INSULATION
REINFORCED INSULATION & SECTION WRAP UP
Safe Products

10 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION DEFINITION OF ACCESSIBLE & LIVE PARTS SUPPLY CORDS
CLASS 0 PRODUCTS
CLASS I PRODUCTS
Class I
CLASS 0I PRODUCTS
CLASS II PRODUCTS
Class II
CLASS III (SELV) PRODUCTS
Class III
LABELS/SYMBOLS & SECTION WRAP UP

3 Topics
EARTH CONNECTION
Fuses
Wire colors

7 Topics
SECTION INTROUCTION AND ELECTRIC STRENGTH
INSULATION RESISTANCE AND LEAKAGE CURRENTS
TOUCH CURRENTS AND EARTH LEAKAGE CURRENTS
Touch currents and earth leakage currents
EXAMPLES & SECTION WRAP UP
Electric strength
Leakage currents

8 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION CLEARANCE AND PARAMETERS INFLUENCING IT
Clearance
POLLUTION DEGREES
Pollution degree
INSULATION CATEGORIES
ALTITUDE MULTIPLICATORS
OVERVOLTAGE CATEGORIES & SECTION WRAP UP
Overvoltage category

8 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND PRODUCT PROFILING
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: PROFILING THE APPLICATION
CALCULATION PROCEDURE
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: BASIC INSULATION
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: SUPPLEMENTARY INSULATION
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: REINFORCED INSULATION
OTHER STANDARDS AND SECTION WRAP UP
Clearance Calculation Exercise

7 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND CREEPAGE DEFINITION
PARAMETERS INFLUENCING CREEPAGE
COMPARATIVE TRACKING INDEX (CTI)
Material group category from CTI
ENHANCED CREEPAGE
CREEPAGE FOR BASIC SUPPLEMENTARY AND REINFORCED INSULATION
OTHER NOTES AND SECTION WRAP UP

5 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: PRODUCT PROFILE
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: MATERIAL GROUP CATEGORY FROM CTI
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE: CREEPAGE FOR REINFORCED INSULATION
EFFECTS OF BRIDGING COMPONENTS AND SECTION WRAP UP
Creepage Calculation Exercise

8 Topics
FOREWORD
CAPTIONS
SECTION INTRODUCTION
NET CLASSES AND CLEARANCE SETTINGS
DESIGN RULE CHECKER (DRC) AND CLEARANCE SETTINGS
ADDING A NEW NET CLASS & VERIFYING THE DRC
CONCLUSIONS AND SECTION WRAP UP
Clearance and creepage in Eagle CAD

6 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND SOLID INSULATION
WORKING VOLTAGE
MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND OFF-THE-SHELF ENCLOSURES
CUSTOM ENCLOSURES/BARRIERS AND SECTION WRAP UP
Supplementary insulation by solid barriers
Reinforced insulation by solid barriers

7 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND INSULATION DIAGRAMS
ACRONYMS AND CLASS I EXAMPLE
EXAMPLES: CLASS II & SOLID INSULATION
EXAMPLE: CLASS II & REINFORCED INSULATION
EXAMPLE: CLASS II WITH SECONDARY CIRCUIT
MEDICAL DEVICES INSULATION DIAGRAMS AND SECTION WRAP UP
Insulation Diagrams

10 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION CRITICAL & BRIDGING COMPONENTS
APPROVED COMPONENTS
US APPROVED COMPONENTS
EU APPROVED COMPONENTS
Markings
EXAMPLE: US & EU APPROVED TRANSFORMER
CRITICAL COMPONENTS SELECTION PROCEDURE
X AND Y CAPACITORS AND SECTION WRAP UP
X and Y capacitors
Y capacitors

5 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND IP PROTECTION
PROTECTION AGAINST INGRESS OF SOLID PARTICLES AND DUST
PROTECTION AGAINST INGRESS OF WATER
OTHER ASPECTS LABELS AND SECTION WRAP UP
IP Protection

4 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS
CLASS II PRODUCTS PECULIARITIES
ROUGH HANDLING AND SECTION WRAP UP
Live parts

6 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTS STANDARDS
TYPES OF STANDARDS: GENERAL COLLATERAL AND PARTICULAR
Types of standards
HOW TO FIND STANDARDS AND SECTION WRAP UP
How to find standards

11 Topics
SECTION INTRODUCTION AND DESIGN PROCESS
PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS
REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS
Product requirements and requirements specification
VERIFICATION
VALIDATION
Verification and validation
EXAMPLE: ELECTRIC TOASTER DESIGN - Part 1 - PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS
EXAMPLE: ELECTRIC TOASTER DESIGN - Part 2 - STANDARDS
EXAMPLE: ELECTRIC TOASTER DESIGN - Part 3 - REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS
FINAL NOTES AND SECTION WRAP UP

1 Topic
COURSE COMPLETE - THANK YOU AND GREETINGS

1 Topic
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