Hi Bill: For Europe, look at EN61000-3-3 (including amendment A1 and A2). If your equipment operates in steady-state (no cycling), you only need to meet the dmax value in clause 5.
I don't know of any North American requirements on inrush limiting. Pat __________________ Bill Flanigan <[email protected]> wrote: Homologists, Are you aware of any EU or NorthAm standards concerned with regulating product inrush currents? We're aware of and design to mitigate the nuisance factor arising from lights dimming and CRTs pulsing on power-up, and we're acutely familiar with breaker characteristics in view of this effect, but are there any published recommendations or regs? Thanks for your time. WmFlanigan ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
