Brian, Depending on site requirement (3m, 10m, diagnostic site), a day/shift of EMC testing is about US$1,500 to US$2,500 including a test report. Typically, an unintentional radiator can be done in 1-1.5 shift depending on frequency range required. For an intentional radiator, price quote varies a lot. For a spread spectrum device with one antenna and one band, testing cost (including a test report) ranges about US$8,000 to US$16,000. Many labs offer quantity discount during this economic downturn. I heard of 20%. Regards, Grace
On 7/17/09, Kunde, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: Every couple years my superiors ask me to make a general inquiry about the cost of EMC testing. There appears to be a lot of competition these days between test labs and with the downturn economy it would be nice to know if labs have reduced their charges to create more work, maintained the same cost over the years, or have raised cost to reflex higher operating costs. So, my request to the group is for you to email me an estimate of how much on average you are paying (or charging) for EMC testing. For simplicity, it would be best to break it down by the hour or by the day or half day depending on how your lab charges. Feel free to send me any additional information that could affect the cost such as the test, geographic location, special features your lab provides, speed, accreditations, etc.. Do not list the names of the labs openly on this email group, for this information is not important. Please respect the rules of this email group. If you wish, you can respond directly to me. If I get good data I’ll publish the results. We did this some years back and the results were very informative. Thank you for your time. The Other Brian _________________________ LECO Corporation Notice: This communication may contain confidential information intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you received this by mistake, please destroy it and notify us of the error. Thank you. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
