Peter, To the best of my knowledge, EU regulations do not require power factor correction. What is required under the EMC directive is compliance with EN61000-3-2, the standard for limitation of harmonic current emissions. There is, of course, an indirect relationship between power factor and harmonics, but the EU requirement concerns harmonics, not power factor.
Best Wishes, Jon Griver Medson Ltd. > > > Dear Colleagues, > > I appreciate if you could help me with my problem please. We use > PC power supply in our control machine for feeding our > motherboard. The end product is intended for EU. I am unable to > locate a PC power supply with PFC and all the vendors that I have > approached say to me it is not needed. > > My question in particular to those of you who work in PC industry > is what is the situation with PC power supplies as far as PFC is > concerned? Are there are PC power supply with PFC around? > > Many thanks > Peter > > > ------------------------------------------- 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,"
