All, I just want to make sure that everyone understands that I've had relatively good experience with Vicor parts. Their tech support has been supportive. Their people have been helping me even before I posed my question to the EMC-PSTC.
I go through great pains to select components with the proper testing/approvals to back them up; and yet we almost always meet some sort of compliance test SNAFU. This has happened with parts from all sorts of manufacturers (including ourselves). As a product manufacturer, I envy the component manufacturers, such as Vicor, in that they only have to EMC test a component, not a system with 26 different ports and peripherals...; however I understand that they must pull their hair out trying to support the thousands of different applications that their users come up with. I also take comfort in the fact that I am probably the only person who will ever compliance test our products. I have the advantage of "single jeaopardy". A component manufacturer gets their products tested possibly hundreds of times a year. I would be amazed if this testing doesn't turn up a surprise or two. So, please cut Vicor some slack; but please keep those design tips coming. I'd like nothing better than to keep NetTest and Vicor both in business :-) Thanks, Chris Maxwell | Design Engineer - Optical Division email [email protected] | dir +1 315 266 5128 | fax +1 315 797 8024 NetTest | 6 Rhoads Drive, Utica, NY 13502 | USA web www.nettest.com | tel +1 315 797 4449 | 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
