<[email protected]>, Sandy Mazzola <[email protected]> inimitably wrote: > In EN 55024: 1998 Page 9 Paragraph 4.2.1, I found the following statement: >"The application of electrostatic discharges to the contacts of open >connectors >is not required by this publication" > > My question is twofold has everybody interpreted this to mean that no > air >discharges or contact discharges are required to the connector or pins of the >open connector. >And secondly if the answer to the above is no discharges of any type are >required, what other publications would require either air or contact >discharges to open connectors.
The point that is being made in EN55024 is that some people interpreted the Basic Standard, IEC61000-4-2, as requiring the contacts of connectors to be zapped, which is pretty unlikely in practice and almost impossible to cope with in many cases. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically- applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and excavating implement a SPADE? ------------------------------------------- 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,"
