Wellllll, the basis of my employer's accreditations is that the local safety puke (me) has to review and sign off every lousy stinkin ECO from engineering and the factories and sales.
So this process should prevent a change in material that would effect safety in negative manner. And life shall remain wonderful... luck, Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John > Woodgate > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Carbon film resister acts as fuse to avoid temp rise > > > In message > <[email protected]>, > dated Thu, 19 Jul 2007, "Powell, Doug" <[email protected]> writes: > > >Being a carbon composition, and only 1/8 Watt it would quickly open > >with no smoke or fire and very little heating. > > That's the point: if they type is changed to metal film or even > wirewound it won't open quickly, there WILL be heating, and maybe a > great deal of it. > -- > OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk > There are benefits from being irrational - just ask the > square root of 2. > John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK > David Heald: [email protected] - 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/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: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
