Re: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning? (cleaning mating surfaces, chassis, )

2002-03-01 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Chris Maxwell chris.maxw...@nettest.com wrote (in 83d652574e7af740873674f9fc12dbaaf7d...@utexh1w2.gnnettest.com) about 'Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning? (cleaning mating surfaces, chassis, )', on Fri, 1 Mar 2002: If you're worried about galvanic corrosion. An

RE: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning? (cleaning mating surface s, chassis, )

2002-03-01 Thread Joshua Wiseman
Chris, Instrument Specialties is now Laird Technologies for those who do not yet know. Josh -Original Message- From: Chris Maxwell [mailto:chris.maxw...@nettest.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:46 AM To: Robert Wilson; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: Pencil erasers for

Differences between EN55022:1987 and 1994

2002-03-01 Thread Gaetan Hogue
Hi Group   What was the major differences between EN55022:1987 and  EN55022:1994?   Do a web site exist to find the changes when the standard is modified?   Thanks   Gaétan Hogue Approvals Manager Eicon Networks Phone: (514) 832-3488 Fax: (514) 745-5588 Email: gaet...@eicon.com

RE: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning? (cleaning mating surfaces, chassis, )

2002-03-01 Thread Chris Maxwell
If you're worried about galvanic corrosion. An excellent (and free) source of information is the Instrument Specialties Catalog and Design Guide.The back cover is a foldout which has a very nice color coded chart that shows metal compatibility while taking into account the environment.

RE: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning? (cleaning mating surfaces, chassis, )

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Wilson
One must take care to separate fact from opinions. Mixing metals as you mention is NOT necessarily a sure way to promote corrosion. Yes, steel against aluminum us not good practice since they are far enough apart on the electromotive series that they will act as a local battery (in the presence

Re: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning?

2002-03-01 Thread Cortland Richmond
this particular sample has been thoroughly abused in environmental testing (including several unintentional unfortunate CONDENSING temp humidity runs - ever look into a chamber and see what looks like your product sitting in a cloud? Not fun). Months and tests later, the dirt or grime is

Re: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning?

2002-03-01 Thread David Heald
Thanks everyone for your input. And let me put everyone's fears at ease by saying that this particular sample has been thoroughly abused in environmental testing (including several unintentional unfortunate CONDENSING temp humidity runs - ever look into a chamber and see what looks like your

RE: Jate Blue Book

2002-03-01 Thread Ian Jennings
Hi The title of the Blue Book (taken from an older version) is An example of documents to be submitted with application for technical conditions compliance approval (Analog Telephone Terminals). An English version of this document can be found along with the Green and Yellow books in the Samples

SV: SV: Screened Room Ambient Scans

2002-03-01 Thread h . knudsen
Hello John, The purpose of a pre-amplifier in the test set-up is to lower the noise floor. I.e. if the over-all noise floor is to high as a result of low gain in the total system, low antenna gain, high cable losses or bad noise figure in the receiving device a pre-amplifier will definitely give

Re: Safety Margins based on NSA premises

2002-03-01 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Robert Wilson robert_wil...@tirsys.com wrote (in 3FF57405336C9B4C976A1819F860A2560F6929@xng_tirsys.TIRSYS.COM) about 'Safety Margins based on NSA premises', on Thu, 28 Feb 2002: A 10 dB margin? That's easy for the guy doing the test to say! Heck; why not 20dB?! I think

RE: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning?

2002-03-01 Thread David Spencer
Hi Dave, Those were the days. Computer not working, pull out all the cards and take an eraser to the gold fingers. Put it back together and Voila! everything works. In a perfect world, my opinion coincides with those previously expressed. We should be testing with pristine equipment, as a

RE: Pencil erasers for pre-EMI cleaning?

2002-03-01 Thread Gary McInturff
I agree if this was the actual EUT under test, but if it is a peripheral that gets used lots, or if its a PC chassis for example I would clean the surfaces at any point I got nervous about the performance. One of the reasons that it is difficult to find a PC that meets the