Re: Re[2]: Query: US safety required for ITE?

1998-09-17 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Ron: You pose a tough question that probably has as many answers as there are jurisdictions in the USA. Does anyone know if there are any local, county and/or state jurisdictions that go beyond, or are in addition to, those regulations of OSHA and/or the NEC? Here's the URL for

Re: Query: US safety required for ITE?

1998-09-17 Thread GSchrempp
The discussion on local acceptance should include the following: 1) The NRTL designation is a very limited and specialized program directly applicable to OSHA requirements. Meeting NRTL means that a given lab meets a very low level baseline of competence and quality. It is quite incorrect,

Safety concerns w/ Reed Switches

1998-09-17 Thread Chris Dupres
Hi Colin. You wrote: I am having difficulty finding Reed Switch manufacturers that have a European Safety certification. ( TUV, VDE, etc. ) I don't think that I would ever use a reed switch on it's own for safety purposes. Whenever I use one I ALWAYS use it with a fast fuse rated at

RE: EMC for Pacemakers

1998-09-17 Thread Juan Pedro Peña
No. Amendment 1 of EN 50061 contains the right EMC requirements for pacemakers. Similar EMC requirements have been included in EN 45502 family for other kinds of implantable medical devices. Juan Pedro Peña

RE: Compliance for Argentina

1998-09-17 Thread WOODS, RICHARD
Is Argentina using IEC standards, perhaps with national deviations, or are they using some other standards? -- From: Tetsuya Hashimoto[SMTP:has...@a-pex.co.jp] Reply To: Tetsuya Hashimoto Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 10:51 PM To:

Re: Safety concerns w/ Reed Switches

1998-09-17 Thread Scott Douglas
colli...@perkin-elmer.com writes: The application I have for this switch is to provide interlock protection to a hazardous area. Has anyone had any experience getting UL certification (3101) using Reed Switches without an European cert. Are you aware

Liability of OEM

1998-09-17 Thread Bailin Ma
Hi all, I have a hypothetical question about the compliance liability. A: PC maker B: Monitor maker C: Customer Suppose C got injured due to the explosion of the monitor when he was using the computer. A purchased large volume of monitor from B. The whole PC, including the monitor, was shipped

Door Interlock

1998-09-17 Thread WOODS, RICHARD
Hello from sunnymake that rainy Florida (we haven't seen the sun in 4 days). We are installing a compact immunity chamber and would like to install some type of positive interlock on the door to prevent someone from accidentally being exposed to a high rf field. Please share with us how you

RE: US NRTL required ?

1998-09-17 Thread richard . payne
Hi Tania: Thanks, this is very interesting (and well stated as your comments usually are). Particularly section 90-4 and the summary document you refer to. Let me take this opportunity to present another point for anyone who cares to give it some thought. The NEC and/or local electrical

Re: Power Supply Design Question

1998-09-17 Thread Robert Macy
My experience with power supply design treats both hot and neutral with equal care. That is, you could reverse hot and neutral and not endanger any characteristic of the supply. So the conclusion is that if you ran a properly designed poweer supply from 208 you'd have no problems.

Re: Power Supply Design Question

1998-09-17 Thread Robert Macy
rbus...@es.com wrote: My company manufactures systems which incorporate power supplies from various manufactures. Typically these supplies have ratings such as 100V-140V/200V-240V and are designed to operate on a single phase input. Some of my customers have the US 208V 3 phase power

Re: Rationale for Regulations

1998-09-17 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Manning: A long, long time ago, I discussed this with some UL folks. I recall that the time this circuit was developed as BEFORE grounding was implemented in the USA. So, everything was 2-wire. UL was testing lots of appliances, especially refrigerators. The n switch was put in the

Re: OATS and ANSI C63.7:1992

1998-09-17 Thread ron_pickard
Hjalmar, This document can be puurchased directly from ANSI (see below). American National Standards Institute 1430 Broadway New York, NY 10018 212-642-4900 tel, stds order - press 1 212-302-1286 fax http://web.ansi.org/default_js.htm Good luck. Best regards, Ron Pickard

OATS and ANSI C63.7:1992

1998-09-17 Thread PostOgFjarskiptast: hjalmar arnason
Thank you all kindly for your response to my question ref. to oats. I will try to contact those of you who have offered information that might assist. One question though, how can I get a copy of ANSI C63.7:1992. Is it somewhere on the internet, does ansi have a homepage. Again thank

USA Today Article, September 17th, 1998

1998-09-17 Thread Kate MacLean
Hi, Folks - Does anyone have any further knowledge (which they can share) about the implications made in this article? It talks about an anonymous email being sent from Lucent in NJ to CNBC and Tellabs, alleging problems with test data for Ciena products. The article says that the