This reminds when EMC immunity testing first came out while I worked at another company. No one knew exactly what to expect. So we made our own ESD tester with a TV flyback transformer connected to a variac connected to the AC mains line. The thing could kill you.
We could go above 15K easy. The product was very robust anyway. So, we'd keep raising the voltage until it finally cooked. The only time I saw an EMC problem solved by software was to fix a keyboard lockup problem with this tester. A programmer was brought in to write a little subroutine to unlock the keyboard. Worked like a charm. The level of testing was a result of the environment in which the product would finally be used. Very uncontrolled environment. - Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
