Ken and John There are no requirements which are mandatory in Europe.
Ilan Cohen Technical Director, Safety & Telecom Divisions I.T.L (PRODUCT TESTING) Ltd. 26 Hacharoshet St, POB 211, Or Yehuda, Israel. Tel 972-3-5339022, Fax 972-3-5339019 ico...@itl.co.il, website: http://www.itl.co.il <http://www.itl.co.il/> I-SPEC: The best place on the internet to learn about safety !! http://www.i-spec.com/ (I-Spec is provided free of charge as a service by ITL to the compliance community) From: Tyra, John [mailto:john_t...@bose.com] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:23 PM To: 'Ilan Cohen'; 'Ken Javor'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: metallic coatings Related to the question .......UL 746C sub-clause 47 specifies testing for adhesion of metallized coatings for EMC purposes. They reference test criteria in ASTMD 3359......If you are submitting to UL and you want to use an EMC metallized coating in a product, where if the coating was to flake spacings would be compromised, UL will require you pass these tests................When I investigated this in the past Europe did not have any similar tests so an Engineer from TUV in Germany told me he would accept the UL results.................Although this may have changed..............Anyone know of any similar requirements for adhesion testing for Europe?? From: Ilan Cohen [mailto:ico...@itl.co.il] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:53 PM To: 'Ken Javor'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: metallic coatings Hi Ken >From a safety point of view I typically recommend not to use coating on Plastics. The results can be destructive and dangerous. After some time you may end up with metallic coating parts falling on electronics and the results can be fire or electric hazard. UL has evaluated plastics and conductive coating for the plastics that matches and stays safe. Consult with UL people for the correct combination. Ilan ---------------------------------------------------------- Ilan Cohen Technical Director, Safety & Telecom Divisions I.T.L (PRODUCT TESTING) Ltd. 26 Hacharoshet St, POB 211, Or Yehuda, Israel. Tel 972-3-5339022, Fax 972-3-5339019 ico...@itl.co.il, website: http://www.itl.co.il ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------- I-SPEC: The best place on the internet to learn about safety !! http://www.i-spec.com/ (I-Spec is provided free of charge as a service by ITL to the compliance community) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Ken Javor [ mailto:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:03 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: metallic coatings Does anyone have any suggestions for a metallic coating that can be deposited on the interior of a plastic box that would need to meet military environmental conditions? Suggestions for other metallization techniques are also welcome. Thank you. ------------------------------------------- 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: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: emc_p...@symbol.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org 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
