1 Scope
This Handbook establishes guidelines to ensure a reliable design, manufacturing and
testing of high voltage electronic equipment and covers:
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• Design
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• Manufacturing
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• Verification/Testing
of equipment generating, carrying or consuming high voltage, like: high voltage power conditioner, high voltage distribution (cables and connectors).
This Handbook is dedicated to all parties involved at all levels in the realization
of space segment hardware and its interface with high voltage for which ECSS-E-ST-20C is applicable.
This handbook sets out to:
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• summarize most relevant aspects and data of high voltage insulation
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• provide design guidelines for high voltage insulation
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• provide design guidelines for high voltage electronic equipment
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• give an overview of appropriate high voltage test methods
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• establish a set of recommendations for generation design and verification rules and methods
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• provide best practices
Applicability is mainly focused on power conditioning equipment but may be also applicable
for all other high voltage electric and electronic power equipment used on space missions, excepx items of experimental
nature.