Wow! I thought CISPR topped out at 6.5 GHz max, and I thought that was based on clock frequency. I would think a super-high power inverter would max out at 1 GHz, with the actual spectrum much lower. Unless of course there is a housekeeping power supply and clocked digital control system using a fast clock.
Ken Javor Phone: (256) 650-5261 > From: "Sundstrom, Mike" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "Sundstrom, Mike" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:11:30 +0000 > To: <[email protected]> > Conversation: [PSES] outdoor EMC testing - questions > Subject: Re: [PSES] outdoor EMC testing - questions > > Ralph, > Back in a previous lifetime (at a test lab) I had a similar EUT to test. You > need to setup your antenna every 20 degrees or 30 degrees or 45 degrees around > the outside of the EUT at a 3 meter or 10 meters measurement distance. You > need to tailor the setup to the space you have. You need to stay between any > external metal and the EUT mass. You need to discuss this with whomever is > signing off on these measurements. They may want more or less test data. > > You also need to raise and lower the antenna from 1 to 4 m at each azimuth and > each polarity of the scan antenna. You should also scan from 30MHz to 1GHz > minimum, this would also need to be discussed with the sign off group. The > best scan you could do is 30MHz to 18GHz with the Bi-con (30-300MHz) and a log > periodic (300 - 1000MHz) and a double ridge horn antenna (1 - 18GHz) . That > would give you a good understanding of just what you might see radiating in > the real world installation. > > I wouldn't worry about the ground plane because it wouldn't be done that way > if you did it in situ (on site after installation). > > Are you not going to do any in situ testing on some of the sites after > installation? > > Thanks, > > Michael Sundstrom > Garmin Compliance Engineer > 2-2606 > (913) 440-1540 > KB5UKT > > "We call it theory when we know much about something but nothing works, > and practice when everything works but nobody knows why." -- Albert > Einstein > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ralph McDiarmid [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 12:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PSES] outdoor EMC testing - questions > > Dear group, > > We are planning to do radiated emissions on a large EUT (a large power > converter) and use a portion of our outdoor, asphalt parking lot as an open > area test site. > We plan to walk an antenna around the EUT, since the EUT and its cabling are > too large to rotate on a platform. It will be installed in a way very > similar to actual use in the field, so I think this is quite close to in-situ > testing. > > 1. has anyone tried this? > 2. apart from a site attenuation test, and perhaps a ground plane metal mesh, > what else would be needed? > > We have facility filters for AC and for DC and voltage probe, current probe, > one "BiConilog" antenna and a nice new SA. We are working with a US EMC > company, and they are a Notified Body under the MRA. > > Thanks, > > Ralph McDiarmid > Product Compliance > Engineering > Solar Business > Schneider Electric > > > > > ________________________________ > This message was scanned by Exchange Online Protection Services. > ________________________________ > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. 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