This document describes a number of tests for use in determining the significant parameters and performance characteristics of transformers and inductors for use in electronics and telecommunication equipment. These test methods are designed primarily for transformers and inductors used in all types of electronics applications that can be involved in any specification for such components. Even though these tests can be useful to the other types of transformers used in power distribution applications in utilities, industry, and others, the tests discussed in this document can supplement or complement the tests but are not intended to replace the tests in standards for transformers. Some of the tests described are intended for qualifying a product for a specific application, while others are test practices used for manufacturing and customer acceptance testing. The test methods described here include those parameters most commonly used in the electronics transformer and inductor industry: electric strength, resistance, power loss, inductance, impedance, balance, transformation ratio and many others used less frequently.

The following are the specific types of transformers and inductors to which this recommended practice is applicable: a) Electronic power: 1) Power, 2) Isolating, 3) Current limiting, 4) Rectifier, 5) Combination (rectifier and filament), 6) Ferroresonant, 7) Converter, 8) Polyphase, 9) Switch mode, 10) Magnetic amplifiers; b) Large rectifiers; c) Pulse: 1) Voltage stepdown, 2) Voltage stepup, 3) Low ratio inverting, 4) Low power pulse, 5) Square-loop, d) Broadband, 1) Impedance matching, 2) DC insulating, 3) Common-mode rejection, 4) Potential transformers, 5) Current transformers, 6) Filter inductors, 7) Charging inductors, 8) Hybrid transformers