U.S. National Product Safety Laws

1999-08-16 Thread georgea
Here is my understanding of this issue relative to ITE. I post this both to inform, and solicit comments which could improve my understanding. The only U.S. Federal law I am aware of pertaining to product safety is that covered in 29 CFR 1900 (the OSHA section). Electrical equipment to be used

RE: National Safety Requirements?????

1999-08-16 Thread John Juhasz
I agree with Rich's explanation (although I couldn't originally find the right words to respond). I would like to add that the NEC (National Electric Code) in section 300 (? - looks like someone took my copy) basically states: an electronic product connected to the public power must be approved

RE: Equipment for development

1999-08-16 Thread Grant, Tania (Tania)
Tim, I am not aware that the different states have different approaches; however, the local authorities, including your customer, might have different ideas, especially with respect to safety. That is why I recommend that you contact your customer to ask him what their expectations are

Re: EMC test chamber -- Reverberation and Others

1999-08-16 Thread Leslie Bai
Barry, NIST has put lots of effort to promote RC and achieved significant results through experimental approach. They deserved the honor of the best symposium paper. However, I guess we are the first team to study RC through modeling simulation approach building the 3-D RC model and obtaining

Re: National Safety Requirements?????

1999-08-16 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Kathy: Someone who seemed to believe such a edict was sent out resently asked me to check to I asked this group. Maybe this is just a very bad joke from someone who really doesn't know what he is asking. I wouldn't cross off the question this way. Be aware that there are a

RE: EMC test chamber -- Reverberation and Others

1999-08-16 Thread bma
Hi Jim, You are right. There was a Session 1A -- Reverberation Chamber, consisting of 6 technical papers, pp. 1- 29, Vol. 1, 1999 IEEE EMC Symposium at Seattle. Besides it, there was a Tutorial Session WS3 -- Reverberation Chamber Workshop in the Symposium as well. It comprises T3.1

Re: EMC test chamber -- Reverberation and Others

1999-08-16 Thread bma
Leslie, Thanks for the valuable info. You mentioned two articles in EMC'99 Seattle Symposium Record. Actually, right before them on pp. 1-6 of Vol. 1 is Reverberation Chamber Relationship: Corrections and Improvements by John Ladbury and Galen Koepke, which won the award of the best

RE: EMC test chamber -- Reverberation and Others

1999-08-16 Thread Knighten, Jim L
Guys, There was an entire session on Reverberation Chambers in the IEEE EMC Symposium held two weeks ago in Seattle. You might find some good stuff in the papers. If you are a Society member, they produced a CD-ROM of all the papers, which is available for the asking, I'm told. Like you, I am

Re: New ISO9000-2000

1999-08-16 Thread Corinne SALINGRE
I have been informed about a standard name TL 9000 which could be adopted as Quality standard for Telecoms industrials (soft, hard and services). Unfortunately I have not the standard itself. Is there a link between ISO9000-2000 and TL 9000 ? Nezam Najafi wrote: To All: Dose anyone have any

Doubt on radiated emissions measurements

1999-08-16 Thread Georg M. Dancau
Muriel, we expereinced similar problems and idetified following phenomenon: You have a loop consisting of: PE (outlet) - Power cord receiver - receiver casing - coax cable for measurement - -cell casing - PE - PE (outlet). You'll have some significant HF currents flowing through this loop if

Equipment for development

1999-08-16 Thread tim . haynes
Hi Everybody, I have some equipment that is currently under development for an American company. While the design of the equipment still has to be finalised, the customer requires a set of units to run on a simulator for test purposes. Apart from the obvious requirement that these development

Internal ESD testing EN55024

1999-08-16 Thread Grasso, Charles (Chaz)
First I would like to thank the group.As usual the open sharing of ideas provides a lot of insight to me. I have one question though - I am particularly interested in the requirements for EN55024. Has anyone changes their ESD procedures as a result of the internal ESD requirement of the spec?

Doubt on radiated emissions measurements

1999-08-16 Thread Muriel Bittencourt de Liz
Dear Group, I'm using a Strip Line Cell (S-Line) from RohdeSchwarz for doing radiated emissions testing. Using the CISPR 22 limits of frequency (30MHz - 1GHz), appeared a spurious signal at the frequency of 205,25MHz, and the cell was empty (no EUT inside it)!! Well, I thought about two

Safety of power supplies

1999-08-16 Thread fwhitfield
Hello group, Is anyone out there aware of an EN standard that specifically deals with the safety of power supplies - the one in question operates on 230V single-phase and has up to six outputs one of which is as high as 1300V for a current of 0.5A. Thank you in advance for your usual

Re: New ISO9000-2000

1999-08-16 Thread roger . viles
Useful info on ISO 9000-2000, though not the actual draft standard, is available from BSI: http://www.bsi.org.uk/iso-tc176-sc2/executive.htm The home page of the responsible technical committee in ISO is at: http://www.bsi.org.uk/iso-tc176-sc2/ Roger Viles WWG Nezam Najafi

Re: Meters and Monitors for ELF-VLF

1999-08-16 Thread roger . viles
Muriel, A whole range of EMF meters is offered by Wavetek Wandel Goltermann (http://www.wg.com/) Contact Wavetek Wandel Goltermann Brasil: Wandel Goltermann Instr. Ltda. Cia. Av. Eng. Luis Carlos Berrini, 936/8§ e 9§ andares 04571-000 SÆo Paulo /

RE: Posters

1999-08-16 Thread roger . viles
I have a poster from TUV Product Services: A Guide to CE Marking Electrotechnical Products. This gives summary info on what's required to comply with 6 EC Directives. See www.tuvps.co.uk or mail i...@ti.tuvps.co.uk Davis, Mike mike_da...@adc.com on 13/08/99 19:42:57 Please respond to

Antenna preamplifier

1999-08-16 Thread kim . boll . jensen
Dear All, Can anyone recommend a suplier of an antenna preamplifier for a TEM celle connected to a spectrum analyzer, for measuring from 30MHz to 1GHz. I need arround 10 - 20 dB gain Best regards, Mr. Kim Boll Jensen i-data, Denmark - This message is coming from the emc-pstc

Re: EMC test chamber -- Reverberation and Others

1999-08-16 Thread Leslie Bai
I have studied Reverberation Chambers for some time, refer to recent EMC'99 Seattle Symposium Record Vol. 1, Page 7 to page 16. Measurement comparison will be published in the near future. Cost: RC is about 20 to 30% of an equivalent AC. Standards: There is a joint CISPR (emissions) and IEC