All: There are two answers here. The first is that the level of complaints is low because many people (the average non-technican citizen) does not know to whom to complain, or feel that they will not get any response (and may not). The second issue is that most regulatory bodies do not do any significant amount of investigation regarding complaints unless there is some threshold quantity of complaints regarding a certain subject.
In general, in working with the FCC, I have found the enforcement activities to be complaint driven. John Shinn, P.E. Manager, Lab Operations Sanmina-SCI -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jim Bacher Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:54 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: CISPR 22 A1:2000 / QTY of Complaints Has anyone heard what the level of complaints that government agencies have been getting from devices such as ITE? I seem to remember Don Bush telling me he had discussed this with a regulatory body and found the answer was zero or near zero. Which Don pointed out meant the current levels and testing methods were sufficient or maybe too tight. Jim > Can anyone tell us the driving reason behind this regulation? Was > it to increase repeatability at test sites? Was it to reduce the number of > interference complaints from ITE installations? ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: [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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: [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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: [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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
