Any metal conductor penetrating the test chamber enclosure must be filtered or grounded in order to avoid polluting the test chamber ambient. With coax, you use a grounded feedthrough connector to achieve that. Failing that, you can use a stuffing tube type feedthrough, but you must peal back the insulation over the coax and stuff enough steel or bronze wool to adequately ground the shield. Or use two pieces of coax connected via barrel type adapters within the stuffing tube and make sure you ground the barrel(s). Ken Javor
Phone: (256) 650-5261 ________________________________ From: <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:50:15 -0700 To: <[email protected]> Conversation: Anechoic Chamber: Pass-through vs. Bulkhead Subject: Anechoic Chamber: Pass-through vs. Bulkhead EMC Gurus, We have a Space Saver chamber that we bought used and installed ourselves. When we installed it, we ran our antenna (signal) cabling through a pass-through along with our fiber optics. Today, someone mentioned that we ought to have at least our antenna cable connected through a bulkhead so that the cable shielding was terminated on the chamber. When we went to disassemble the chamber when we bought it, there were no bulkheads for anything. Are the bulkheads necessary? Does anyone else use a pass-through for the antenna cable? It doesn't seem to have had an effect on measurements, but I still have a lot to learn so hopefully someone can share some wisdom. Thanks, Chris Anderson - 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc 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]> - 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc 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]>
