Impulse Noise simulator
after sales service and support status
and successor product notice
Following the enforcement of the The Minamata convention on Mercury signed on October 2013, domestic law the Act on
Preventing Environmental Pollution of Mercury had taken eﬀect on August 16th 2017. We have thus decided to announce
the termination of sales and manufacture of the impulse noise simulator on May 2020.
If you wish to continue using the impulse noise simulator, we urge you to consider replacing your impulse simulator early.
And we also urge you to replace yours even when you own the latest models (INS-4020/4040, INS-AX2 series) but expired 8years after delivery maintenance period, we may have to decline for repair due to our maintenance policy.
20172018

2019

2020

August 16th, 2017 Enforcement of theAct on Preventing Environmental Pollutionof Mercury

Sales & Manufacturing period

2021

2022

2023

2024

2026

2027

2028

December 31st, 2020 Prohibition ofmanufacturing speciﬁed mercury-added
products etc. depending on products● May 2020, End ofSales & Manufacturing

Maintenance period: May 2025, End of Maintenance
Service terminationincluding mercury relay
export for the old INS series
as shown in the table below.

2025

Terminataion of export sales ofmercury relay units for thecurrent models on Dec 31, 2020

● Maintenanceperiod: May 2025,
End of Maintenance* After 2021, mercury relay will be most probably not permitted to export and relay replacement
will be practically possible only locally through our authorized distributors or agents.

INS series old products
Applicable Products

Service and support termination

INS-410/420/420A/420R

November 30th 2018

INS-4310/4320/4320A

November 30th 2018

INS-200/300/400AX

November 30th 2018

INS-400L

November 30th 2018

INS-4001

November 30th 2018

If your product is not on the list and not our active products (INS-4020, INS-4040, INS-AX2), maintenance service andparts sales of Mercury relays are already terminated. (Ex. INS-10A/20A, INS-320/350 etc.)
This notice does not warrant the execution of repair service until 2018. Some service parts are already out of stock andunprocurable so that we can only oﬀ er maintenance repair service where possible

Information on Successive models (Current models)Correspondence chart between old model and current models (Per model)
Old models

Current models

Correspondence chart between the old models
and current models (Per output voltage)

INS-410/420/420A/420R

INS-4020/4040

Old models

Current models

INS-4310/4320/4320A

INS-4020/4040

2kV model

INS-4020、INS-AX2-220/250

INS-200/300/400AX

INS-AX2 series

3kV model

INS-4040、INS-AX2-420/450

INS-400L

INS-4020/4040

4kV model

INS-4040、INS-AX2-420/450

INS-4001

INS-4020/4040

Please consult with sales representative for EUT power capacities

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Noise Simulator(Mercury relay type)INS-4020/4040

Scheduled end of sale: May 31, 2020

● Easy setting either to Common mode or Normal mode with short plug
● Simple setting of the repetitive cycles (VARIABLE, LINE PHASE) only on the main unit
● Output voltage level and pulse repetitive cycle ramps up/down granularity selectable at sweep
Parameter
Output voltage
Pulse width
Rise time
Output impedance
EUT power capacityINS-4020/4040

INS-4020
INS-4040
0.01 〜 2.00kV±10%(Positive and Negative Polarity)
0.01 〜 4.00kV±10%(Positive and Negative Polarity)
50, 100, 200, 250, 400ns±10% combination thereof, 10ns±3ns (the shortest connection)≦1ns50Ω system (53.5Ω)AC240V / DC60V 16A (L1/L2/PE or L1/L2/L3)

Noise Simulator(Mercury relay type)

INS-AX2 series

Scheduled end of sale: May 31, 2020

● Realize automation and eﬃciency in the test
● Simple and easy setting of the test parameters with PC remote control software● Enable to switch Common mode / Normal mode and injection angle in the main unit
● EUT FAIL INPUT terminal built-in. Enable to control the test stop when EUT is malfunctioned
during the automated test
Parameter
Output voltage
Pulse width
Rise time
Output impedance
EUT power capacity

INS-AX2 seriesSpeciﬁcation
INS-AX2-220 / 250 : 0.01 〜 2.00kV±10% (±0.04kV for <0.1kV) (Polarity Positive and negative)
INS-AX2-420 / 450 : 0.01 〜 4.00kV±10% (±0.04kV for <0.1kV) (Polarity Positive and negative)
50, 100, 200,400, 500, 800, 1000ns±10% 10ns±3ns≦1ns50Ω system (53.5Ω)Single phase AC240V / DC65V, 20A（L1/L2/PE/SG）AC50/60Hz±10% (model 220 / 420)
Single & 3-phase AC300V / DC65V, 50A（L1/L2/L3/PE/SG）AC50/60Hz±10% (model 250 / 450)
Single & 3-phase AC500V / DC250V, 50A（L1/L2/L3/PE/SG）AC50/60Hz±10% (model 250H/ 450H)

NEW impulse noise simulator
Noise Simulator(Semiconductor Relay type)

INS-S220

As noted above, upon enforcement of "the Act on Preventing Environmental Pollution ofMercury", our current impulse noise simulators which utilize mercury relays (thereafterreferred to as current model) will be ceased to sell and manufacture on May 2020.Inresponse, new simulator development utilizing new relay is currently underway.

■ General Speciﬁcation
Relay mechanism
Output voltage
Rise time
Pulse repetition
Pulse width

INS-S220
Semiconductor Relay
2kV (4kV model pending)
3ns or less2ms〜999ms±10%50ns 〜 1000ns

Output impedance 50 ohm

INS-440(current model)
Mercury relay
4kV max
1ns or less16ms〜999ms±10%50,100,200,250,400ns
combination thereof
50 ohm

INS-AX2-420(current model)
Mercury relay
4kV max
1ns or less16ms〜999ms±10%50,100,200,400,500,800,
1000ns±10%, 10ns±3ns
50 ohmScheduled market
launch: Sep. 2019(as of Dec. 2018)

Subject to change depending on
future circumstances■ Correlation between the NEW impulse simulator and current model
New impulse noise simulator speciﬁcation is diﬀerent from current model in terms of the output waveform (Rise time) due to thediﬀerence of relay mechanism. Therefore we expect that the test results between two simulators may not be correlational. There may
be test results discrepancy where customer product (EUT) failure event is not reproduced under the same test condition. In order for
you to keep enough transitional periods for the adoption of new impulse simulators, while you continue testing with the current model,
we recommend you to consider updating your existing equipment to the latest model for longer service period.
* Designs, appearances and speciﬁcations on the products are subject change without notice.

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