Thanks John, there are Home Plugs on the market that fail the EMC directive by a country mile. We have sent test figures from a UKAS Accredited Test House to Trading Standards who are looking in to it... and have been doing so for 6 weeks.
Cheers Alan In message , dated Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Alan E Hutley writes: >Anyone interested in PLT ( Power Line Communications), or BPL ( >Broadband over Powerline ) as it's known in the USA should not miss >this excellent article by Tim Williams published in the latest issue of >the The EMC Journal, free to download www.theemcjournal.com > >"RF Emissions of Powerline Ethernet adaptors" Indeed, it would be wise to do so. But please remember there are at least two sides to every question, and in this case I stopped counting when I reached twelve. (;-) PLT is possibly the biggest challenge that the electronics industry has been faced with since the Enigma decoding project or the Apollo programme. It looks impossible to make it work to everyone's satisfaction, but that's what professional engineers are for! IF it can be made to work, the economic benefits are potentially enormous, so all the effort that is being put in is worthwhile. What is not worthwhile, and I have said this in a standards committee, is attempting to fudge the requirements so that unsatisfactory systems are released to the market. The BT project can be regarded as a necessary field trial to see how much interference ACTUALLY results. The way EMC requirements are developed (and there is probably no better way) can result in a requirement being too stringent, either initially or as a result of later developments, whereas one that is not stringent enough is fairly easily detected and toughened. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Things can always get better. But that's not the only option. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - 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 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 Mike Cantwell For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: David Heald: - 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]>
