moshe, there are, in fact, several acoustic standards. I am not an expert in this area, however I am sure that a gentleman by the name of John Downs could answer all of your questions. Here is his number:
John Downs dB Sound Labs (714) 248-9809 dB Sound Labs is located in San Juan, California. Hope this helps! - Randy Flinders EMC Test Engineer Emulex Network Systems ---------- From: owner-emc-pstc To: rflinders; emc-pstc Subject: Acoustic noise requirements List-Post: [email protected] Date: Monday, March 31, 1997 10:42PM Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 97 22:42:57 PST Subject: Acoustic noise requirements To: [email protected] X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: Chameleon 4.6, TCP/IP for Windows, NetManage Inc. Message-Id: <Chameleon.970331224904.mvaldman@MOSHEVAL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] X-Resent-To: Multiple Recipients <[email protected]> X-Listname: emc-pstc X-List-Description: Product Safety Tech. Committee, EMC Society X-Info: Help requests to [email protected] X-Info: [Un]Subscribe requests to [email protected] X-Moderator-Address: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Hello again, I happened to find acoustic noise limits in the IEC 1010-1 (lab equipment safety). Do you know of other standards \ directives with acoustic limits? Are there standard ways of measurement? (sound power, sound pressure, spectrum..) thanks ------------------------------------- Name: moshe valdman E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 052-941200, 03-5496369 List-Post: [email protected] Date: 31/03/97 Time: 22:42:57 -------------------------------------

