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
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