Employment opportunity

2000-04-04 Thread Jon D. Curtis
Are you searching for an exciting employment opportunity? Curtis-Straus, an Electronics Testing Laboratory in Littleton, MA is looking for EMC engineers to staff our test and design laboratory. Curtis-Straus LLC is the fastest growing testing laboratory in New England! We offer an

Notified Body Numbers

2000-04-04 Thread WOODS
How many characters are there in a Notified Body number? I am laying out a label and want to make sure I allow sufficient room for the maximum number of characters. Richard Woods --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical

GPSD Discussion

2000-04-04 Thread georgea
Several comments were made relative to the evolving General Product Safety Directive (92/59/EEC) and CE marking that may have given an inaccurate view. Here is my understanding: The EU now requires CE marking on a broad variety of imported products as a condition of entering the EU. The

RE: energy hazards - 61010

2000-04-04 Thread richard . payne
Hi John: You can also look at Annex F (F.2) for power levels and the resultant requirements if your circuit is Unlimited. Also don't overlook 6.3.2, values in single fault conditions, and you may be particularly interested in 6.3.2.3. A minor point, note that there is no definition for SELV

RE: VDE0800

2000-04-04 Thread WOODS
BSI has translations of many of the VDE standards. VDE also has some in English. Check both web sites. Richard Woods -- From: Guy Barange [SMTP:gbara...@newbridge.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:33 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org

energy hazards

2000-04-04 Thread Fee John
Hi I have been searching through IEC 61010 for any requirements relating to energy hazards for accessible terminals, similar to those of IEC 60950 which have a limit of 240 VA and 20 J available energy. The only reference i can find in 61010 relates to electric shock in that clause 6.3.1 limits

VDE0800

2000-04-04 Thread Guy Barange
Bonsoir, I am looking to the Safety Standards DIN VDE 0800, does somebody know where I can find it? Thanks in advance Guy barange attachment: gbarange.vcf

Waste Directive/Lab Equipment

2000-04-04 Thread MartinJP
Annex 1A and 1B of the Second Draft of the Proposal for a Directive on Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment specifies categories and examples of equipment that is covered by the Directive. In the section for Medical Equipment Systems it specifies Laboratory equipment for in-vitro

Re: Fwd:information regarding electromagnetic compatibility

2000-04-04 Thread jrbarnes
Evangelos Tonas wrote an article EM Shielding Effectiveness of Low-cost Architectural Shielding Materials that appeared in the 1997 ITEM. This article is available on the web at http://www.rbitem.com/ITEM_Publications/ITEM_Archives/I97art19.htm Table 1 shows that chicken wire can achieve: *

Re: Fwd:information regarding electromagnetic compatibility

2000-04-04 Thread jrbarnes
Gerald, R. Kenneth Keenan's book Digital Design for Interference Specifications (Vienna, Virginia: The Keenan Corporation, 1983) has some excellent advice for doing developmental tests in chapter 6. He tells: * How to do basic emissions tests using: - An AM broadcast receiver. - An FM

Link to China

2000-04-04 Thread Vagn Sylvest
Hello All I used to have a good link to information about importing goods into China. It was http://www.cyberway-to-china.com/ccib The address is however claimed unknown from the network (has no DNS entry). Does anybody know where it's information has gone to? This very good link hold some

Re: Mars lander problem

2000-04-04 Thread Tony J. O'Hara
It's only software!! Seems like the report from the JPL Special Review Board on the Loss of the Mars Polar Lander blames the software! They clearly state (section 7.7.2 in pdf file #4) that The touchdown sensors characteristically generate a false momentary signal at leg deployment. This