RE: Class 1 AC/DC adapter

2003-11-05 Thread ChengWee Lai
Hello Guys, Apologies for getting into many IF's. Yes, our discussion is based on assumption and description provided. There are many unknown for us on his unit. I believe the fundamental of the safety concept, which have been discussed should be look in depth by Raymond. Maybe it is time for

Re: LVD voltage limits

2003-11-05 Thread Arthur Michael
Hi John, The following article was published in the last issue of Int'l Product Safety News. Enjoy! Regards, Art Michael Int'l Product Safety News A.E. Michael, Editor P.O. Box 1561 INT Middletown CT 06457-8061 U.S.A. Phone : (860) 344-1651 Fax: (860) 346-9066 Email :

Re: LVD voltage limits

2003-11-05 Thread Joe P Martin
John, The following link has the LVD Update #4. This update followed a June 2003 Working Party Meeting. http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/electr_equipment/lv/direct/review.htm Best Regards Joe Martin Applied Biosystems marti...@appliedbiosystems.com

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2003-11-05 Thread Collins, Jeffrey
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Product Safety job posting message

2003-11-05 Thread Georgerian, Richard
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LVD voltage limits

2003-11-05 Thread Tyra, John
Hello Everyone, I have read on this list and have been told by TUV that the lower limits for the voltages of products which fall under the Low Voltage Directive may be eliminated so that low voltage products would now fall under that directive. On the Europa website I read an LVD Working

RE: IEC 61010-1:2001 section 6.7.3.2 Clearance Calculation

2003-11-05 Thread POWELL, DOUG
John Dave, Thank you for your replies. I was hoping someone else had independently found these issues with the document. My only other choices were, I am somehow going senile or worse, insane. I am concerned becuase this lack of attention to detail on the part of the committee, brings the

RE: Casino gaming machine

2003-11-05 Thread Sosnoski, Michael
Doug, IEC 60035-2-82 is the current prevalent safety standard for gaming machines. Testing and meeting the EN version will suffice for Europe, but meeting the IEC with all group differences, and country deviations is quickest and easies way to go. On that note—Please remember that not all

Re: Class 1 AC/DC adapter

2003-11-05 Thread Rich Nute
Hello Chengwee: Whether customer can accept his adaptor with only 1500Vac hipot tested where other power supplies can withstand 3000Vac? This is an interesting question as it implies that the higher the withstand voltage the better the unit. The statement may even imply that a

Casino gaming machine

2003-11-05 Thread Doug Massey
Hello group; Recently a client has requested a product safety evaluation for CE Marking of their casino game – a fairly typical electronic slot machine. The machine does not issue tokens to a winner, but rather prints a redeemable coupon. Similar products by the client have been evaluated

Re: Class 1 AC/DC adapter

2003-11-05 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Peter: I have and continue to advocate (in IEC TC 108) that such classes should apply to CIRCUITS, not to products. If this is endemic in IEC (as your statement implies), it may require a elephantine effort. Good luck. Yes. And thank you. The IEC Class I and

digital tv -vs- medical telemetry

2003-11-05 Thread Peter L. Tarver
This is an old issue for some (from a 20MAR1998 FDA advisory), but an interesting spectrum allocation issue for your edification http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/dtvalert.html Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE ptar...@ieee.org This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical

RE: Class 1 AC/DC adapter

2003-11-05 Thread Peter L. Tarver
Let's look at these what ifs. From: ChengWee Lai Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 4:38 PM Raymond might be able to convince Safety agency to accept PE continuity test with 1500Vac Hipot at the production line. However in the Scenerio with end customer, it could mean business or no

RE: IEC 61010-1:2001 section 6.7.3.2 Clearance Calculation

2003-11-05 Thread John Allen
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Doug, Dave This is not the first time the formulae and examples in 6.7 have been called into question. One of my customers raised a query about a year ago, and I forwarded the query to the Chairman of the IEC TC for 61010, as well as the (BSI)