Steve and group, We too have recently been impacted by this problem. In our case the manufacturer is Carlingswitch. It apparently only affects a portion of their switches. They told us that it affects four different switches that we are using. We have asked them for additional information and they have not been willing to provide any. They did not even say it has to do with the spacings, we just figured that it must be a change to the spacing requirements. If some VDE standard is changing shouldn't it affect other switch manufacturers with VDE approvals? Why is this apparently affecting only Carlingswitch, or have the other manufacturers just chosen not to inform their customers? I too would be very interested in finding out more about this change.
Kurt Andrews Compliance Engineer Tracewell Systems, Inc. 567 Enterprise Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 voice: 614.846.6175 toll free: 800.848.4525 fax: 614.846.7791 http://www.tracewellsystems.com/ <http://www.tracewellsystems.com/> -----Original Message----- From: Steven Brody [SMTP:sbr...@prodigy.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:27 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Standards change - spacings on switches? Dear all, I was recently told by a well known switch manufacturer that their one of their products which was UL/CSA/VDE approved, would no longer be available due to a VDE standards change that impacted the spacings between the contacts. However, they were not able to tell me which standard changed, or what the change was. I assume the spacing requirement has increased as a decrease would have no impact. If anyone has any information about what standard changed and what the changes were I would appreciate it. Thanks, Steve Brody NESLAB Instruments, Inc. Email - steve.br...@neslab.com or sbr...@prodigy.net ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org