In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Derek Walton <[email protected]> writes:
>you make a point.... But easier to say that when you reside in the >community. Well, I'm a self-employed consultant and I represent clients on standards committees. I'm not coming from BIG BUSINESS. > >Now, if the standards committees worked using net meeting, ie web Based >meetings, that would be easier to swallow. Travel costs for small >companies are not insignificant. I agree, but it's much better now than it used to be. I try hard to spend clients' money as if it were mine. You do have to balance the use of £10 red-eye fares against the need to perform competently in the committee work. > >BTW, I bought 13309:2000, and I have to say this is a strange standard. >My clients equipment may be used at a construction site, but if it is, >it's run off a generator and not hooked into the vehicle. By this, I >mean the vehicles electrical system. 13309:2000 is really regurgitated >Automotive test requirements implying they are for the vehicle or parts >to be bolted on after market on a vehicle. Otherwise, one could argue >computers, fridges, coolers anything used on a construction site needs >13309. Surely that's not the intent? I would not think so. The standard is indeed badly drafted. (Let's hope the new edition is better.) The title clearly says 'internal electrical power supply' and that should be in the Scope, but it isn't. If you product is such that it cannot be powered by the vehicle's own electrical supply (excluding any mounted generator that is not connected to the internal supply), then EN 13309 does not, according to the Title, apply. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may be able to stop it, or natural variation is causing it, and we probably can't stop it. You choose! John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex 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/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
