RE: StripLine

2000-03-28 Thread Grasso, Charles (Chaz)
Presuambly you are referring to a stripline antenna?? Thank you Charles Grasso StorageTek 2270 Sth 88th Street Louisville CO 80027 Tel: (303)673-2908 Fax(303)661-7115 -- From: Frank Krozel[SMTP:fr...@electronicinstrument.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:24 AM

RE: StripLine

2000-03-28 Thread Allan, James
A few years ago I picked up a freeware download on stripline and microstrip from an outfit called UltraCAD. Here is a link to their web page. It is full of useful and interesting info. The freeware is a program with a graphical interface that lets you put in the parameters you want to control

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Barry Ma
Chris, I am impressed by your gentleman discussion manner. We all agree that the committee of EN 61326-1 has very solid reason to exclude 3-2 3-3 for Class A equipment. If we had had the vote right we might have done the same thing. Unfortunately 3-2 3-3 became Product Standards with very

RE: EMC/PSTC/NEBS/TREG

2000-03-28 Thread George, David L
Average number of messages is now between 30 and 50 a day. And people want more! I wish I had enough free company time to participate in this mountain of mail. We need to increase the quality and substance of the messages rather than to increase the amount. Dave George Unisys -Original

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Egon H. Varju
Jim, Trust me, apart from providing a bit of humour, these translation programs don't work worth a sheet. grin Mind you, the original creator of Babel Fish does give you the correct answer: 42. BTW, from the ego-deflating department, the country with the most English speaking people is

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Barry Ma
Ed, Thanks. Here is my basic $0.02. Most of time spent learning a foreign language is to remember vocabulary. This is not a creative job. The most precious resource - our brain should be gradually released from downloading burden. Barry Ma b...@anritsu.com -- On Tue, 28 March

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Hopkins
The standards have general applicability; however, the push by the European Power Industry for this standard has been to target switching power supplies as the culprit. Since most ITE use switching power supplies.. According the the scope, both 3-2 and 3-3 apply to virtually all

RE: Viewing NEC surface patches?

2000-03-28 Thread Knighten, Jim L
Brent, I am a user of NecWin Pro. I don't know the answer to your question, but I'd be interested in what you are able to find out. JIm Dr. Jim Knightene-mail: jim.knigh...@ncr.com jim.knigh...@ncr.com Technical

RE: List of upcoming dates for standards

2000-03-28 Thread Benoit Nadeau
Hello Tania and all, It is true that CENELEC is not the only player in this. The date that each standard is Published in the Official Journal (O.J.) and the date that CENELEC adopted it are consecutive but the dead line date where you will have no choice to use this stnadard (or version of

Re: StripLine

2000-03-28 Thread Frank Krozel
Hi All: Seem to have misplaced my data on Striplines. Is there somewhere on the web that I can find the dimensions to build a stripline? Frank Krozel

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Grant, Tania (Tania)
I think we are going to have fun with these PCs!Us humans create interesting bloopers, can you image what a PC translator could do Human example, that actually happened at the Monterey (Army) Language School some years ago: Translate the following (either from Russian to English, or

RE: List of upcoming dates for standards

2000-03-28 Thread Grant, Tania (Tania)
Thank you, Benoit, Can you perhaps clarify: do the effective dates published in this standards list coincide with the effective dates published in the OJ? I believe that for a number of standards, the OJ effective dates prevail, notwithstanding whatever may be published in the standard.

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread John Juhasz
As always . . . very well written, George. -Original Message- From: geor...@lexmark.com [mailto:geor...@lexmark.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:20 AM To: m.r...@ieee.org Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: modest proposal Martin, Your post included the following: * We, the ugly

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Gert Gremmen
Thank you, Thank you, and applause Regards, Gert Gremmen, (Ing) ce-test, qualified testing === Web presence http://www.cetest.nl CE-shop http://www.cetest.nl/ce_shop.htm /-/ Compliance testing is our core business /-/

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Maxwell, Chris
Barry, You have a great point. It doesn't just apply to Information Technology Equipment. I apologize for using the term ITE loosely. I feel (don't know) that the lowering of the current limit from 16A per phase (one of the main differences between IEC 555-2, 3 and IEC 1000-3-2,3) was aimed

RE: Is the modular approach to EMC the same as CE + CE = CE?

2000-03-28 Thread Gert Gremmen
In short: The update guide as referred to by Canio says: 6.4.2 Customer buys several apparatuses in one box that are ce-marked, do not ce mark the system, but include installation instructions. 6.4.2.1 You assemble several ce-marked apparatuses, and you are not sure !

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Gert Gremmen
Hello Group, Although EN 61326-1 excludes harmonics for class A, and that is a product standard having a narrower scope then EN 61000-3-2, I still believe the en 61000-3-2 , or at least the harmonics issue should be considered for laboratory equipment. At first: The European commission has

RE: Ultraviolet Light

2000-03-28 Thread DOMINGUEZ,FRANK (HP-Greeley,ex1)
Hi Doug, In the past we have used a textbook titled UV-A Biological Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation with Emphasis on Human Responses to Longwave Ultraviolet as guidance for compliance to clause 4.3.12 of the -950 standards. I'm down the road here in Greeley, so if you need to borrow it, it

RE: Differential Modes - Even and Odd

2000-03-28 Thread Knighten, Jim L
Priyawrat, Differential transmission lines (microstrip or other) can support two modes of propagation, the even and odd modes. Usually, the odd mode is the intended mode of operation, as you have noted. Differential circuits inevitably suffer some imbalance between the two sides of the

Re: List of upcoming dates for standards

2000-03-28 Thread Benoit Nadeau
Bonjour de Montreal, For European standards the most useful link I found is http://www.cenelec.be/ Do a search on Harmonized standards and it will list you with the dates of effect (DOW). Regards, At 11:28 AM 3/28/2000 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone know of a web site that lists when the

RE: List of upcoming dates for standards

2000-03-28 Thread WOODS
I forgot about another site. The Commission lists all standards that have been published in the OJ and lists their effectivity dates. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/standardization/harmstds/re flist.html http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/standardization/harmstds/r

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Barry Ma
Hi Chris, Would you please prove that two product family standards 3-2 and 3-3 are only applicable to ITE? Thanks. Barry Ma b...@anritsu.com -- On Tue, 28 March 2000, Maxwell, Chris wrote: . My understanding of the scope of EN 61000-3-2 and EN 61000-3-3 is that it is targeting

RE: List of upcoming dates for standards

2000-03-28 Thread WOODS
This is not exactly what you want, but I think it is the best information available. The CENELEC web site lists the dop, dow and the date the reference was published in the OJ. In most, but not all cases, the Commission adopts the dow. http://www.cenelec.be/ http://www.cenelec.be/ Richard

RE: Ultraviolet Light

2000-03-28 Thread WOODS
From the CENELEC web site, I see that EN60335-2-27:1997 and EN 61288:1994 covers exposure to UV. Richard Woods -- From: POWELL, DOUG [SMTP:doug.pow...@aei.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:19 AM To: EMC-PSTC (E-mail) Subject: Ultraviolet

Viewing NEC surface patches?

2000-03-28 Thread brent . dewitt
I've been using NecVu in NecWin Pro for viewing model geometries and currents in wires, but it omits the display of surface patches. Does anyone know of a freeware, shareware or just cheap viewer for patches? Thanks, Brent DeWitt Datex-Ohmeda Louisville, CO

List of upcoming dates for standards

2000-03-28 Thread Martin Rowe (TMW)
Does anyone know of a web site that lists when the various EMC standards will go into effect? If not, would such a web age be useful? /\ | Martin Rowe | / \ | Senior Technical Editor | /\ /\ | Test Measurement World | / \

Re: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread georgea
Martin, Your post included the following: * We, the ugly Americans, want the world to conform to our native language. We're too lazy, stubborn, and arrogant to learn another language. You may be partially right, but I believe there is a much simpler explanation. It is human nature to do

Ultraviolet Light

2000-03-28 Thread POWELL, DOUG
Hello group, I have a product that uses extremely strong ultraviolet light and is enclosed in a light-tight enclosure. So far I have been unable to determine what the safety requirements (which standards) for Europe and CE marking are and what sort of warning label should be applied to the

RE: Questions about EN61000-4-6

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Kunde
Hi Barry, I commend you on the in-dept study you do when looking at standards, but as Abraham Lincoln said, If you look for the bad ... you will surely find it. Standards are written for the majority of products, not for every product in every environment. That's why there is the TCF rout to

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Provost,Norm
Unfortunately I don't get to post to this list very often, but now find myself posting twice the same week! I simply want to emphasize the intentions of EN 61326-1 relative to harmonics. The standard was written in IEC of course, but many of the same participants are involved in the sister

Re: Ambient Cancellation Device for OATS - Dual Channel Spectrum Analyzer

2000-03-28 Thread Cortland Richmond
Rene, I am not aware of any analyzer built to perform signal cancellation. But I have not been looking for one. Here are the two phase cancelling methods I spoke of: The simplest method is also the hardest. At the spectrum analyzer input, place a combiner. To one input, connect your

RE: Is the modular approach to EMC the same as CE + CE = CE?

2000-03-28 Thread Dick Grobner
Sense this discussion has started regarding CE + CE = CE, I have one question, and by the way - I agree with Paolo's comments (and the European Commission Guidance Doc). We offer with our device an off the shelf standard PC along with a printer, monitor, etc. This interfaces with our manufactured

Fw: Is the modular approach to EMC the same as CE+CE = CE?

2000-03-28 Thread Canio Dichirico
Hi All! I am sorry to bother all of you again but I was just old by our IT people that email sent yesterday to our organization may have been delayed in delivery or bounced depending on the configuration of the remote site's (viz, your) mail system. Would you be so kind to re-send to me any

Re: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Martin Rowe (TMW)
As perhaps the only member of this list who works for a publishing company, let me explain why a designed language won't work. * We, the ugly Americans, want the world to conform to our native language. We're too lazy, stubborn, and arrogant to learn another language. * A designed

RE: General Product Safety Directive

2000-03-28 Thread John Allen
Hi folks Very interesting and I am glad that Richard has spotted this as I was under the same impression (as, I think, were/are many other people). However, I personally doubt it makes much difference to the TECHNICAL safety requirements that should be applied to any specific product. These

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Egon H. Varju
This is really becoming a completely pointless discussion. Most of the people on this forum appear to be native English speakers. In my experience, native English speakers have absolutely no motivation or desire to learn any other language. Furthermore, a large percentage of the allegedly

RE: Questions about EN61000-4-6

2000-03-28 Thread Wagner, John P (John)
CISPR 24 allows the transition from conducted to radiated immunity anywhere from 30MHz to 80MHz.. The European implementation, EN55024 does not. The 4-6, 4-3 boundary is at 80MHz. The Japanese did extensive testing for equivalence of RF field exposure to current injection. They found that

RE: EN61326-1 Harmonics

2000-03-28 Thread Maxwell, Chris
I'd like to present a dissenting opinion on this one. I feel that, as the standard is written now, Class A test and measurement equipment complying to EN 61326-1 is exempt from the harmonics and flicker standards of EN 61000-3-2 and EN 61000-3-3. I don't feel as if it was overlooked by EN

General Product Safety Directive

2000-03-28 Thread WOODS
You may find this link concerning the potential revision of the GPSD to be of interest: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/policy/developments/prod_safe/ps04_en.html http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/policy/developments/prod_safe/ps04_en.html . I learn something every day. I always thought the GPSD

Re: Differential Modes - Even and Odd

2000-03-28 Thread Doug
P.R.Dewasthalee wrote: Hi all, I feel the best way to close the argument about the split is to invoke a lot of discussion on EM related topics! Fortunately, I have a lot of doubts to clarify! *** In CML/pCML/ECL/pECL logic families, we see a

RE: EMC - Declaration of Incorporation?

2000-03-28 Thread Nick Williams
As an engineer, I have a lot of sympathy with the position taken by Mike that the DofI would be a useful document for compliance with the EMC Directive (and other directives too). However, the DofI is only an available option for compliance with the Machinery Directive. It's important to

Re: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Doug
I've heard efforts of a universal translator through Java being worked on as we speak. You'll be able to go to any website written in any language and see it in your default language. I only hope they fix the little language snafus that crop up. And perhaps the death of having to learn

Differential Modes - Even and Odd

2000-03-28 Thread P.R.Dewasthalee
Hi all, I feel the best way to close the argument about the split is to invoke a lot of discussion on EM related topics! Fortunately, I have a lot of doubts to clarify! *** In CML/pCML/ECL/pECL logic families, we see a differential output with even mode

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Anil Allamaneni
From: Barry Ma There must be some day in the future, the artificial intelligence has been so well developed that (1) An instant interpreting machine built-in to your PC . or brain. Remember, you need to meet class B limits though :-)) --- This

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Grant, Tania (Tania)
Paul, I consider myself proficient in English, but I agree with you that those who throw Acronyms around without first typing them out are inconsiderate. There are quite a few Acronyms that have more than just one explanation. Tania Grant, tgr...@lucent.com mailto:tgr...@lucent.com Lucent

RE: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Anil Allamaneni
This debate is moot. English is a good language for EMC and safety, for now. Until people adopt JAVA (or its variant, from Seattle) to communicate with each other because of its precision and unambiguity and logical constructs. And then you dont even have to learn a language; you can upload the

Re: modest proposal

2000-03-28 Thread Barry Ma
Hi Lou, There must be some day in the future, the artificial intelligence has been so well developed that (1) An instant interpreting machine built-in to your PC would automatically transfer any language you input (either typed or voiced) to any languages the other party would like to have.

Re: MoU between Czech Republic and EU countries?

2000-03-28 Thread Nick Williams
Can't give you a direct answer, but I found a site you might find useful earlier today - it covers the details of the MRA's currently in force, including details of the approved labs. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/international/indexb1.htm HTH Nick. At 09:59 -0500 27/3/2000,

Re: Ambient Cancellation Device for OATS - Dual Channel Spectrum Analyzer

2000-03-28 Thread rc
Hi Cortland, I agree that if you want to get successful cancellation of ambient by mixing an negative ambient signal to the measured signal you need an exact adjustment of amplitude and phase. And here lies the problem. Is there a spectrum analyzer in the market that has two channels, or that