<[email protected]> wrote on 02/09/2011 04:51:04 AM: > From: > "John Davies, Blackwood Labs" <[email protected]> > To: > <[email protected]> > Date: > 02/09/2011 04:51 AM > Subject: > RE: [PSES] EUT power cord length > Sent by: > <[email protected]> > > You potentially have a very good point there, Bob. > > However, the standards do usually state (dare I say) a “reference > method”, whereby they state things like “where the cable length > requirements cannot be made...etc, etc, then bundle.” (I am not > quoting a particular standard here, just what I recall as being > typical words.) The implication of such statements is to meet the > cable length requirements is preferable. So they may not tell you > to cut the cable, but they never tell you not to cut the cable, so > cutting the cable isn’t a deviation. > > Even if it a lab chose to see cutting the cable as a deviation, > technical justification kicks in with the likely outcome that such a > deviation would be acceptable.
I hear what you are saying but I believe that in most cases "the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law". Now if I could just remember who said that. :) Bob - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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]>
