Times have changed. Back in late Eighties when I was working at an EMI lab, considerable time was spent in maximizing cable related emissions, just to make sure that the EUT does not fail. Some of our key customers also encouraged this practice. The main reason was that FCC could request product sample for testing at their lab, and no one wanted to see the product fail during their testing.
Regards, Ravinder Server PCB Development Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Email: [email protected] John Woodgate <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 03/22/2005 12:22 PM To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Radiated Emission Testing In article <[email protected]>, Bob Richards <[email protected]> writes >The lab where I work now, I was pleasently surprised to see that they >work very hard trying to fail a product under test. Well, they are NOT supposed to, at least in Europe. This is over-zealous. It is required to make a reasonable attempt to maximize emissions under the restrictions imposed by the relevant standard, but an officious search for 'worst-worst-worst' conditions is not only not required, it is beyond the legal requirements. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. There are two sides to every question, except 'What is a Moebius strip?' http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
