My company has been testing our standard power supply products to the ESD test voltages in IEC601-1-2:1993 (Medical EMC requirements). The levels are 3kV contact & 8kV air.
Recently, one of our customers started testing to IEC601-2-24 (Safety of Infusion Pumps and Controllers). They said the levels in that spec are 8kV contact & 15kV air - much higher than our test levels. Is this a trend for ESD test levels in product-specific standards, of significantly higher test levels? Or are other medical product-specific standards comparable to IEC601-1-2 (ie, with a few kV)? I realize that the next version of IEC601-1-2 raises the contact discharge voltage to 6kV. This doesn't seem like a big change. If the trend is toward higher voltages in these other standards, I'd like to find out so we can plan accordingly. -- Patrick Lawler [email protected] --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
