Luke et al Are you trying to satisfy the relevant clauses of ISO 17025 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories" ? I have been following the guidance in UKAS document LAB 34 http://www.ukas.com/pdfs/Lab34.pdf for calculating uncertainties in EMC measurements. This is based on the older NIS 81 document and references the CISPR standard you refer to. Am I correct in saying that as long as you do a valid assessment of uncertainties, by following whatever standard, you can satisfy the relevant requirements of ISO 17025?
On the issue of verification of ESD test equipment, referred to in other postings, but relevant to ISO 17025 compliance, is it not sufficient to merely observe that a spark is generated by a calibrated ESD gun when the device is operational and brought close to a conductive surface? Do you really need to observe the waveform? If this is not sufficient then shouldn't the same rationale be applied to all other pieces of immunity test equipment? Ian Gordon > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Turnbull [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 06 May 2003 15:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: CISPR 16-4. > > > > Dear all, > > Does anyone know if CISPR 16-4 (Uncertainty in EMC > measurements) is called up by any testing standard, or > whether it is to be called up in the future? Otherwise, it > appears that this standard is an interesting read, but nothing more. > > Thanks > Dr Luke Turnbull > > _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by the WorldCom Internet Managed Scanning Service - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.worldcom.com 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] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
