Re: Charge moving from decoupling capacitors

2000-05-17 Thread Barry Ma
Hi Yu, Let’s begin with the excellent description written by Andrew Ingraham: “The voltage sag propagates outward from the chip, consuming charge stored in the intrinsic capacitance of the planes bit by bit (not all of it at once!), and eventually reaching external capacitors which help hold

RE: Dust-Tight/Water-Tight Connectors For Use Under Raised Floors

2000-05-17 Thread WOODS
Equipment in air handling space is addressed in the NEC. The basic requirement is to prevent smoke emissions from equipment located in the air handling space. UL has Listed some of our ITE for that purpose. Hermetic sealing was not a requirement, but reasonable practice in sealing cable openings

RE: Requirements for Australia

2000-05-17 Thread George Sparacino
Hello Nick, Singapore PSB has requirements for the mains plug used depending if it is a 2 or 3 pin configuration. My experience with the 3 pin config is it must comply with Singapore standard SS145 and bear the marking SS145 on the plug itself. For the complete skinny: 1.) Download this

RE: Is it Safe?

2000-05-17 Thread William D'Orazio
Muriel, Richard is right, by coincidence I received a task to conduct a site survey where a 25Kvolt line runs approximately 5 feet underneath the ground floor. I measured the magnetic field from 30Hz to 100KHz with a magnetic loop antenna and found that at 60Hz the level was 135dBpT. This

Flickermeter (EN 61000-3-3) Question

2000-05-17 Thread Martin Rowe (TMW)
Greetings, I've got a few questions about flickermeters and EN 61000-3-3. If anyone has experience using and perhaps calibrating flickermeters, please e-mail or call. I would like to send a manuscript for a peer review and to answer some questions I have. Thanks.

Dust-Tight/Water-Tight Connectors For Use Under Raised Floors

2000-05-17 Thread shadoff
Can anyone point to a requirement for dust-tight/water-tight connectors for use under a raised floor in a computer room? I believe that City of Chicago requires dust-tight/water-tight connectors when the area beneath the raised floor is also used as a plenum (e.g., a return or supply for

Re: Charge moving from decoupling capacitors

2000-05-17 Thread Barry Ma
Steve, Thanks a lot for the very nice hierarchy description below. If there's a 10 mil or less spacing between pwr and gnd planes, the plane cap is available. The plane cap and the decaps are complementary in whole frequency range. Plane cap takes care of high end, and decaps cover low

Re: Requirements for Australia

2000-05-17 Thread georgea
Nick, I know that AC/DC adapters commonly used with small electronic products require category certification by an authorized AU/NZ agency, e.g. QAS. I suspect a battery charger will require the same, but cannot comment on the applicable standard given your application. Our adapters are for

RE: Charge moving from decoupling capacitors

2000-05-17 Thread Maxwell, Chris
Barry, You're hitting upon one of the basic fundamentals of how radiated emissions occur. The situation that Andrew is describing occurs if we design our boards properly, with a low inductance return path for each current and with proper impedance matching; then our traces will act more like

Re:Employment Opportunity - Radio Approvals

2000-05-17 Thread Jim Bacher
Forwarded for Chris... Please respond to Chris and not me. Jim Reply Separator Subject:Employment Opportunity - Radio Approvals Author: chris_mcgo...@3com.com List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: 5/16/00 5:04 PM Dear compliance

Requirements for Australia

2000-05-17 Thread Nick Williams
It's a while since we've had anything to do with equipment being shipped to Australia, so I'd like to check up and see if the situation has changed in the meanwhile. I've been asked what would be the requirements for shipping a switch mode battery charger intended for charging batteries in

RE: Alarm Systems Compliance

2000-05-17 Thread Andrew Wood
Gert, As a relative newcomer to the world of EMC compliance, please allow me to question your statement below to clear things up in my own mind. I thought that as a manufacturer, we have the option of EITHER: a) declaring conformity against an appropriate standard or b) preparing a

Non-HAR line cord

2000-05-17 Thread WmFlan
Illustrious group: A NEMA-fitted, SO cable is proposed for (optional) North American use on an ISM product that is CE labeled and, until now, wired to mains by the customer. Should I alert the owner against use of this combination in EU? Or is it implicit by use of the NEMA plug and non-HAR