Re: Manufacturing Hipot Testing

2001-08-20 Thread eric . lifsey
Interesting points. This provoked me to look again into a standard that I've examined but never used, BS EN 50178:1998, Electronic equipment for use in power installations. It covers safety, EMC, and environmental conditions. It is 99 pages long, it's informative Annex A starts on page 72, so

Re: Conductive Coatings

2001-08-20 Thread Ron Pickard
Hi John, In a past life, I had to deal with conductive coatings. In addition to the parameters you listed, uniformity, integrity and durability of the coating were important. Uniformity was important because the inside surface of the enclosure pieces were complicated (coating voids behind

Re: Am1 to CISPR24 in OJ?

2001-08-20 Thread David Gelfand
Joe, Having had much difficulty meeting these limits, could you briefly summarize the changes in Am1? Do they apply also to PSTN lines also? Thanks, David. David Gelfand Regulatory Approvals Kontron Communications Inc. I downloaded the amendment and was pleased to see that it mostly

RE: Manufacturing Hipot Testing

2001-08-20 Thread Kazimier_Gawrzyjal
For Hi-pot, see CAN/CSA C22.2 No 60950-00 * UL 60950, ed. 3, Dec. 1, 2000, cl. 5.2.2 Note 1 and the invoked definition (by NOTE 1) for ROUTINE TEST per cl. 1.2.13.3. My opinion and not that of my employer. Regards, Kaz Gawrzyjal Dell Computer Corp. -Original Message- From: John

RE: Conductive Coatings

2001-08-20 Thread WOODS
Other issues include recycling of materials per the proposed EU directive. See http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/electr_equipment/eee/index.htm http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/electr_equipment/eee/index.htm Richard Woods -- From: John Juhasz

Conductive Coatings

2001-08-20 Thread John Juhasz
Greetings . . . Beginning to consider conductive coatings for EMC shielding. To be used inside a plastic cover (material as yet unknown) in a low power/voltage (SELV) application. This is unfamiliar territory. I'm sure someone on this listserv has experience with these. I know to at least

Re: Manufacturing Hipot Testing

2001-08-20 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Peter Merguerian pmerguer...@itl.co.il wrote (in 2D1037012914D4118DB8204C4F4F50202D5CD4@ITLLTD01) about 'Manufacturing Hipot Testing', on Mon, 20 Aug 2001: Production - Line Tests (usually Dilectric Strength and Earth Continuity and in some cases like medical equipment,

RE: Manufacturing Hipot Testing

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Merguerian
Chris, Production - Line Tests (usually Dilectric Strength and Earth Continuity and in some cases like medical equipment, Leakage ) are not required by the standards but by the third party certification agencies. This is to ensure that the unit meets protection against shock even after a

ESD test level 4

2001-08-20 Thread WOODS
Is anyone aware of any generic, family or product standard that requires ESD test level 4 as specified in IEC 61000-4-2? What is the standard number? Level 4 is 8 kV contact discharge and 15 kV air discharge. I am aware of the following standards: o IEC60601-2-24 (safety EMC for medical

Plastic bags

2001-08-20 Thread Nick Williams
Does anyone happen to know if child safety warning labels/markings for plastic bags used as packaging are mandatory anywhere? Such markings are not legally mandatory in the UK, although many major retailers demand them. I guess the same is true in most other markets, but I particularly want

FW: Manufacturing Hipot Testing

2001-08-20 Thread Jon Griver
Chris, Don, Testing to standards is usually termed Type Testing, which is testing for design faults. The purpose of production testing is to identify production faults, (e.g. incorrect or bad connections, faulty components, etc., etc.) and this must be taken into account when deciding which

Re: Manufacturing Hipot Testing

2001-08-20 Thread georgea
Don, IEC 60950, section 5.3, is specific regarding electric strength testing. It does not require testing between secondary circuits, as it is the primary to secondary, and primary to ground insulation that provides protection against electric shock. Type testing is performed for 1 minute,

Re: Emitters Within a CO

2001-08-20 Thread Eric Petitpierre
Dave Heald Wrote: Regardless, every piece of CO equipment (at least owned by the RBOC) should be immune to 9.8 or so V/m signals and any exceptions should be known by the CO administrators as such information is included in a NEBS report (Immunity to 10V/m is a conditional requirement only - I

RE: CE test suite for computers

2001-08-20 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
Don't forget Telco Conducted Emissions is NOT required until at least 2003' Richard, -Original Message- From: Frazee, Douglas (Douglas) [mailto:dfra...@lucent.com] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:19 PM To: 'Pettit, Ghery'; 'Stuart Lopata'; emc Subject: RE: CE test suite for computers

Re: Repair of Transient Generator

2001-08-20 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that andrew.p.pr...@baesystems.com wrote (in cc4b7352cc8fd4118d7700b0d0497235c2e...@basit67307300.basldn.gecm.com) about 'Repair of Transient Generator', on Mon, 20 Aug 2001: Is there anyone who can tell me if there is anywhere in the UK that I could get a Honeywell 4881

Repair of Transient Generator

2001-08-20 Thread andrew . p . price
Hi all, Is there anyone who can tell me if there is anywhere in the UK that I could get a Honeywell 4881 transient generator repaired, I know it is 30+ years old but as most of you know getting new equipment or replacing old equipment can be an almost impossible task for an emc lab. Regards