Below it was recommended that they run a sweep to 18 GHz; I was reacting by
saying I wasn't aware that CISPR went higher than 6.5 GHz, and that limit
was clock frequency dependent, and it appears I was correct.

My comment about the inverter power level was not meant as an issue of
specsmanshp, but that the higher the power of the device, the lower the
switching frequencies employed, hence the spectrum associated  with
switching would be lower for high power devices because they tend to use
lower frequencies to up the efficiency.

Ken Javor
Phone: (256) 650-5261


> From: "Ghery S. Pettit" <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: "Ghery S. Pettit" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:00:50 -0700
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PSES] outdoor EMC testing - questions
> 
> Which CISPR standard?  CISPR 22 (ITE) and CISPR 32 (ITE, Broadcast Receivers
> and Multimedia Equipment) top out at 6 GHz.  The upper frequency (beyond 1
> GHz) depends on the maximum frequency used in the product, not the power
> level.
> 
> Ghery Pettit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Javor [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 8:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PSES] outdoor EMC testing - questions
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
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