As I have not seen this extreme (for a correctly constructed UUT) I would
have to assume that none of my units were "completely normal".

Perhaps the common-mode input chokes do not have well-matched windings ?

I am very curious about this effect; if you can, pls advise on the root
cause.

luck,
Brian


From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org]On Behalf Of Bob
Richards
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:35 AM
To: ieee
Subject: Surge coupler anomaly

In surge testing a product to 61000-4-5, we had a failure that could not
be explained. So, we investigated and found that during a 2kv surge
line-PE, we were seeing about 1.6kv line-neutral. The spec only requires
1kv line-neutral, and 2kv line-PE and neutral-PE.  But when we surge
line-PE we get much higher than the required 1kv line-neutral.

I emailed the manufacturer of the surge equipment, and was told this is
"completely normal". Has anyone else observed this kind of behaviour from
you surge equipment?

Thanks in advance,

Bob Richards, NCT.

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