Hello Derek, EN 55014 is indeed orientated to household products. However, it is also the most appropriate standard for arcade and gaming machines as they are specifically listed within it. It clearly refers to "entertainment machines", "pin ball machines", "video machines", "winnings payout", etc, although originally intended for the older electro-mechanical kind of gaming machines (pin-ball machines, gambling reels, etc).
It may be argued that EN 55014 is technically be no longer appropriate for those gaming machines which are basically a computer (shoot 'em up and driving games, etc), but no other standard is more appropriate. In my view, such machines should have a radiated emissions test (a computer, with many unscreened cable looms, in a wooden box - it's going to radiate!) For years the gaming machine industry have somehow got away without doing radiated emissions by staying within the scope of EN 55014. However, the latest amendment to EN 55014 (A1:2009) could actually implement a radiated emissions test on such products (but this is dependent on the disturbance power emissions levels measured). Such computer based gaming/entertainment machines may well fall under the multimedia standards of the future, if/when they are published (by CISPR and then by Cenelec as an EN). However, CISPR/S have recently stated that the forthcoming multimedia standard are not applicable to products covered by other CISPR publications, so these arcade gaming machines would presumably have to be purposely dropped from CISPR 14 for the multimedia standards to apply. Best Regards, John From: Derek Walton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 February 2010 05:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Arcade games HI All, I'm looking for the appropriate product standard for arcade, by this I mean professional, games. eg Pinball machines, dart games etc. EN55014 has been suggested, but this really seems oriented to household use. Thanks in advance, Derek Walton L F Research - 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 has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. - 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]>
