Jim, I became aware of this, I was at the Symposium too. The position I take is that the buyer of anything should be afforded some degree of protection. Some markets agree with this, ie we like drugs to have FDA approval, or we tend to pick parts with agency ( UL, FM, CSA etc ) approvals. Other folks, in our case those looking after EMC, have forgotten the COMPATIBILITY portion.
Specifically: if it isn't a digital device it doesn't have emissions.... it's buyer beware for susceptibility. Even though I work for manufacturers, the ones I associate with would like industry to have guidelines. Relying on internals requirements is not good enough, we like knowing what everyone has to meet. The CE requirements have helped a lot, the main objection is not that we have them, but that they were begun in Europe and not the USA..... These are my opinions: I wish others would share them, so what I buy in the shops would work..... Best regards, Derek N. Walton Owner L F Research EMC Design and Test Facility, Poplar Grove, IL 61065, USA. --------- 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).
