Our solution was by procedure. Before the field was brought up, the shield room door was padlocked. A flashing light was turned on. Going back into the room required unlocking the padlock which reminded the technician to make sure the field was down. This is not a true "interlock"; meaning door open = field cannot be applied, but it worked well.
As a funny note, a EE asked me one time how long we had to wait for the field to die down before the door could be opened. To which I replied, "One minute. Could you time that for us." I couldn't resist. >---------- >From: WOODS, RICHARD[SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 2:17PM >To: 'emc-pstc' >Subject: Door Interlock > >Hello from sunny....make that rainy Florida (we haven't seen the sun in 4 >days). > >We are installing a compact immunity chamber and would like to install some >type of positive interlock on the door to prevent someone from accidentally >being exposed to a high rf field. Please share with us how you resolved this >interlock problem. Thanks in advance. > >Richard Woods >Sensormatic Electronics >[email protected] >Views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent those of >Sensormatic. > > > >--------- >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], [email protected], or >[email protected] (the list administrators). > > --------- 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], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
