George, The ACTA for Part 68 has issued an advisory for Customer Information documentation for Part 68 devices. It suggests a warning be included suggesting the use of an AC surge arrestor. This is on page 7 of 8 of a PDF file downloadable from http://www.part68.org/.
It claims that telephone companies have reported that electrical surges are very destructive to customer telephone equipment connected to AC power sources. It also states that "This has been identified as a major nationwide problem." A source for this information is not provided, but perhaps somewhere on the web site you might find a contact that could point you to hard data. Dan -----Original Message----- From: George Stults [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Voltage Spikes on Power Lines etc Hi Folks, I am trying right now to convince some folks that power line voltage spike problems can be and usually are severe enough to degrade or kill ITE products that don't have adequate over-voltage protection. I found a link using Google that describes the problems [ http://www.kalglo.com/powrline.htm ] but I'm looking for additional links to specifics or summaries if any one knows of such. Thanks in advance. George S. ------------------------------------------- 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"
