The other Brian wrote: > Does anyone have first-hand experience dealing with EMC failures in the > field? If you fail by 1db, are you dragged > through the mud, fined, banned, prosecuted, black helicopters circle your > house, masked men drag you out of bed in > the middle of the night? Or is action taken only on severe non-compliances? > What's the likely scenario?
I've been doing the EMC thing since the mid-80s and I have never had a non-compliance in the field (that was brought to my attention). Only non-compliances have been at an EMC lab (internal, external, or by a customer). Am I doing a good job or is all of this blown out of proportion? I've worked with various company imposed margins from 3 to 10 dB as well as a company where a pass was a pass (right at the limit was ok). What seemed to work the best for getting solid EMC compliant product was when the process required the engineering director to sign off on releasing it without meeting margin. Doesn't really matter what the value of x is at that point because people will do anything not to have to sign their name on a document! ______________________________________________________ Dan Roman, N.C.E. Senior Member IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society mailto:[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.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) 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]>
