Re:case of units

2002-06-26 Thread Nick Rouse
quarter 0188 squared 0178 cubed 0179 Millifarad sized capacitors are now common and I have seen one instance of one marked mF. With the new double layer supercaps multifarad rated capacitors are also available and someone is marketing a 28kF capacitor or if you prefer 0.028MF Nick Rouse

Re: IEC 60601-2-24 / Magnetic Field

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Rouse
is about the size of the air gap, about 1mm or less. Thus there are very strong magnetic fields only out to a few centimetres. I don't know if this is the reasoning behind the field values in IEC 60601-2-24 but if it is the levels do not seem unreasonable. Nick Rouse . - Original Message

Re: U.S. Safety Regulations

2002-03-25 Thread Nick Rouse
and users operate in the various countries and you should beware of the subtle differences between them. Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: geor...@lexmark.com To: Nick Rouse nickjro...@cs.com Cc: emc emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: Re: U.S. Safety

Re: U.S. Safety Regulations

2002-03-22 Thread Nick Rouse
to equipment solt to comsumers. Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: geor...@lexmark.com To: emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:57 PM Subject: U.S. Safety Regulations There seems to be some confusion regarding U.S. product safety regulations

Re: Teslars???

2002-02-08 Thread Nick Rouse
These figures should be borne in mind the next time you read about the dangers of the magnetic field from overhead power lines. I have several times seen building site welders sitting on their transformers with their testicles dangling over the gap and I haven't seen welders dropping like flies. Nick

Re: broadband RE from AC induction motors

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Rouse
transformers and other electrical equipment to do so in a vacuum Although this effect can take some time to produce complete failure it will very likely do so in the end Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: Ken Javor ken.ja...@emccompliance.com To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday

Re: 60950 - Insulation between mains and secondary with capacitors

2002-01-11 Thread Nick Rouse
Yes, I see a problem , Lightning spikes and the full peak mains voltage when the mains is switched on at its voltage peak will pass straight through your capacitors causing a safety hazard and may destroy the insulation of the transformer if it is not rated for this voltage. Nick Rouse

Re: radar

2002-01-08 Thread Nick Rouse
one stripe pitch for every 10mph.If the pictures show you have traversed more than 7 stripe pitches (on motorways)you will receive copies of these photos together with a summons to appear in court. Nick Rouse Jim Freeman wrote: Hi All, I apologize for being off subject but I

Re: Lasting of the CE marking

2002-01-04 Thread Nick Rouse
can show the design meets the new standards Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: Kim Boll Jensen kimb...@post7.tele.dk To: EMC-PSTC emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: Lasting of the CE marking Hi all I was just seeking through EMC LVD RTTE

Fw: skinny power cords.

2001-10-26 Thread Nick Rouse
- Original Message - From: Nick Rouse 100626.3...@compuserve.com To: WELLMAN,RON (A-PaloAlto,ex1) ron_well...@agilent.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:52 PM Subject: Re: skinny power cords. Earlier on in the thread it was not about arcing across the pins of a plug but about

Re: skinny power cords.

2001-10-26 Thread Nick Rouse
plugs built to of the latest version of BS1363 would most certainly have done so Nick Rouse --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs

Re: skinny power cords.

2001-10-24 Thread Nick Rouse
Hello Gary, Sounds like your making a case for the wider adoption of the UK system with fused plugs rated to protect the power cord Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: Gary McInturff gary.mcintu...@worldwidepackets.com To: EMC-PSTC (E-mail) emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: Power Plugs

2001-10-02 Thread Nick Rouse
Certainly not in the U.K. for equipment that may be sold to consumers. It is illegal to sell such equipment without a plug to BS1363 already fitted and with the correctly rated fuse in the plug. Here and in the rest of Europe the cord must have IEC colour coding. Regards Nick Rouse

Re: Component ESD Immunity Testing

2001-10-02 Thread Nick Rouse
A reminder to anyone who carries out ESD tests on IC's Don't forget to throw away the tested sample. It is easy for IC's to survive ESD tests and appear to be normal but to have serious internal damage that will severely compromise the reliability of the unit Regards Nick Rouse - Original

Re: Does anyone have any information on Rendar in England?

2001-08-03 Thread Nick Rouse
Rendar were taken over a couple of years back by Schurter. The traded for a while as Rendar - Schurter but have now dropped the Rendar part of the name and are just Schurter UK Ltd. They are still operating from the same factory in Bognor and still making the same products such as IEC320 plugs

Re: In-line Fuses

2001-06-27 Thread Nick Rouse
they are . Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: brian_ku...@leco.com Subject: In-line Fuses We have an application where an In-Line Fuse would be an easy fit to a problem. The fuse and holder would be added to an existing internal cable harness in a piece of Lab Equipment (EN61010-1 for safety

Re: Products Electrical Ratings De-rated for Eurpoean Branch Circuits

2001-06-21 Thread Nick Rouse
Peter Tarver wrote in reply to my comment The rating of a UL rated fuse is more or less the current at which it blows. The rating of a fuse to IEC 127 (used throughout Europe) is more or less the working current of the fuse and the circuit it protects This may or may not be true. Last I

Re: Products Electrical Ratings De-rated for Eurpoean Branch Circuits

2001-06-20 Thread Nick Rouse
current of the fuse and the circuit it protects. Thus circuits are used right up to the full rating of fuse protecting them Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: Lesmeister, Glenn glenn.lesmeis...@compaq.com Subject: Products Electrical Ratings De-rated for Eurpoean Branch Circuits

Re: CE marking for Small quantities of a gas appliance

2001-04-02 Thread Nick Rouse
modified but if the directive stands its wording is fairly unambiguous. Regards Nick Rouse Original Message - From: Nick Williams nick.willi...@conformance.co.uk To: Dan Teninty dteni...@dtec-associates.com Cc: Emc-Pstc@Majordomo. Ieee. Org emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Sunday

Re: 230 Vac or 240 Vac?

2001-02-03 Thread Nick Rouse
are correspondingly higher as those generated on the high voltage transmission lines are transformed down by a lower ratio Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: geor...@lexmark.com To: gelf...@memotec.com Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:30 PM Subject: Re: 230 Vac

Re: Beta Shipments

2001-01-18 Thread Nick Rouse
clause. If the equipment is switched on by the customer or your sales rep it must be electrically safe and be CE marked for the Low voltage directive Regards Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: O'Shaughnessy, Paul paul_oshaughne...@affymetrix.com To: 'Lou Guerin' lgue...@littlefeet

Re: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Nick Rouse
complicated way. I know this does not count as anything like simple but simple sounding questions often have complicated answers as Benoit Mandelbrot found when he asked 'how long is the coast of Britain?' I hope you can distil some simple if simplified answers that will satisfy your class. Nick

Re: safe voltage limits for cattle ( cows horses etc)

2000-11-16 Thread Nick Rouse
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Re: EN 61000-3-2/A14

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Rouse
you may use only the new amended version. Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: Friedemann Adt a...@viewsonic.com To: h...@jyske-emc.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 6:56 PM Subject: Re: EN 61000-3-2/A14 I tried to refresh my memory about quoted

Fw: Overcurrent Protection: One or Both Sides?

2000-10-07 Thread Nick Rouse
From: Nick Rouse 100626.3...@compuserve.com To: wo...@sensormatic.com Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Overcurrent Protection: One or Both Sides? Hello Richard No, there is only one fuse in the standard BS1363 mains plug . It is in the live side and the plug

Re: Date of withdrawal

2000-10-03 Thread Nick Rouse
I don't know any French but if it is the French implimentation of the Machinery directive it would not cotain any EN numbers. The Machinery directive is a New Approach directive and they never specify particular standards. It specifies routes to compliance that refer to harmonised standards.

Re: Getting Started

2000-10-03 Thread Nick Rouse
think you could make such a case I suggest your talents would be much more profitably employed in the law than in being a compliance engineer. Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: tinb...@aol.com To: cdup...@cs.com; fr...@amcomm.com Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 6:24

Re: Getting Started

2000-09-30 Thread Nick Rouse
- Original Message - From: Nick Rouse 100626.3...@compuserve.com To: FRIES fr...@amcomm.com Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Getting Started - Original Message - From: FRIES fr...@amcomm.com To: emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 3:35

Re: Test voltage for products to the U.K.

2000-08-01 Thread Nick Rouse
to tell them apart. Get them the wrong way around and in one case you get a brilliant light that dies in about 100 hours and in the other a light that lasts almost for ever but is ridiculously dim and inefficient. Vive! European Unity Nick Rouse - Original Message - From: raymond

Re: 8591EM monitor output

2000-07-26 Thread Nick Rouse
if you go in at baseband video via the SCART socket found on most sets, they will not lock up the NTSC derived baseband video as monitors used to do in monochrome days. I used to work designing telvision equipment such as standards converters and it is no small problem. Nick Rouse - Original

Australian Compliance

1996-06-13 Thread Nick Rouse
and certification under the Approval of Electrical Appliances Scheme. They are also bringing in a framework for EMC regulation and emissions standards for ITE will be the first stage. Again the standards, although local are based on international ones Nick Rouse

CE marking for replacement parts

1996-06-13 Thread Nick Rouse
intend to issue an updated version of their own guidelines in the next couple of months in response to the Commission guidelines and it will be interesting to see whether they fall in line with the Commission in this matter. Nick Rouse

EMC Standards

1996-06-10 Thread Nick Rouse
the scope of the old version. There was some expectation that this principal would apply more broadly but if EN55103-2 -3 are eventually published with a dow of 1 Mar 1997 and listed in the OJ obviously this is not so. Nick Rouse

Re: Radioactive Materials in TTE

1996-06-07 Thread Nick Rouse.
Two relatively common uses of radioactive materials in electronics are tritium powered luminous bars 'Betalights' and some very fast gas discharge tube type surge arrestors. The common slower telephone grade ones have no radioactive materials. Nick Rouse

Re: Industrial Plugs and Sockets

1996-05-29 Thread Nick Rouse.
I believe the reference is to the ICE 309 series of plugs and sockets. IEC 309 is equivalent to CEE 17 and is listed in the OJ with relevance to the low voltage directive Nick Rouse

Re: EMC/Plug-in radio cards

1996-05-29 Thread Nick Rouse.
this definion. Nick Rouse

RE: EMC Standards

1996-05-24 Thread Nick Rouse.
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Re: European Power cords

1996-05-23 Thread Nick Rouse.
but the conclusion he came to agreed with the interpretation of phrase 'designed for use with a voltage rating of ...' given by Nick Winter at the DTI. They regard the directive as applying only to equipment powered by voltages within the stated limits Nick Rouse

RE: AC Powerline harmonics

1996-05-20 Thread Nick Rouse.
you can suppress harmonics. The limit is the practicality of the use of such filters. You tend to need values of several henries capable of taking the DC current which may be 10's of amps without saturating. Such inductors are large. Nick Rouse

Re: AC powerline harmonics

1996-05-17 Thread Nick Rouse.
. A point in that standard that some may not have noticed is a that there is a complete ban on the use of half wave rectification. Nick Rouse

Re: EN61000-3-2 applicability ?

1996-05-09 Thread Nick Rouse
amendment A12 in the OJ. Nick Rouse

Re: Routine Hipot testing )

1996-05-07 Thread Nick Rouse
will come into force immediately on listing in the OJ Nick Rouse

Re: Who can apply the CE Ma

1996-04-30 Thread Nick Rouse
is that with some directives this is required but for the LVD, EMC and Machinery directives, if type examinationl is not require, a manufacturer can declare compliance based on his own or any others measurements without any quality system being mandatory. Nick Rouse

Re: Who can apply the CE Mark?

1996-04-30 Thread Nick Rouse
) as the basis for this declaration but the must take all reasonable steps to ensure this is valid. They cannot just pass on your assurance, unchecked and evade responsibility. Nick Rouse

Re: Standards Route vs. Essential Requirements Route

1996-04-29 Thread Nick Rouse
standards but leaves unclear some matters where the scope of a standard changes. 4.Non-question, see above Nick Rouse

Re: Dates on MDoC

1996-04-29 Thread Nick Rouse
The requirement for the last two digits of the year in which the CE marking was affixed on the DoC is the 6th indent of Article13 (6)B of the CE marking directive 93/68/EEC. Note that year numbers are not called up for the marking itself. Nick Rouse

Re: FCC 47 CFR Indust Equip

1996-04-26 Thread Nick Rouse
will be a 120MHz Pentium. Soon we can expect this difference to apply to most PC based products. Nick Rouse

Re: ESD testing on exposed connector pins

1996-04-22 Thread Nick Rouse
and then a further filter to reduce the clamp level to below the signal threshold. This can be expensive and bulky if you have a lot of signals but it can be done. Nick Rouse

Re: UK EMC law efective date

1996-04-18 Thread Nick Rouse
as a result of action by a Trading Standards Officer. I hope this rather lengthy reply finally kills this rumour Nick Rouse

Re: ESD testing on exposed connectors

1996-04-16 Thread Nick Rouse
with connectors for optional attachments. A PC manufacturer does not expect that every computer sold will used only with a device on every serial and parallel port. The test is intended to simulate a real risk. Where to apply the test should surely be governed by where this risk is real. Nick Rouse

Re: ESD testing on exposed connectors

1996-04-16 Thread Nick Rouse
to a coupling plane 100mm from a connector face can have more effect than a direct discharge to the pin. Nick Rouse

Re: Laser Safety in EN61010-1

1996-04-16 Thread Nick Rouse
standards is not absolutely mandatory for compliance with the LVD. The catch is that if you do not fully conform, then from next year you will need detailed documentation in advance of marketing showing how you achieve equivalent safety to that given by the harmonised standards. Nick Rouse

Re: Low Voltage Directive

1996-04-15 Thread Nick Rouse
safety directive on the declaration of conformity which is a formally defined document relating to those directives that require it. Like superfluous CE marks I think that superfluous delcarations of conformity should be discouraged. Nick Rouse

Re: Product Liability Directive

1996-01-11 Thread Nick Rouse
92/59/EEC published in the Official Jounal ref: OJ L228 of 11-Aug-1992 and came into force on 29-Jun-1994 and was carried into UK Law by The General Product Safety Regulations 1994 Statutory Instrument 1994 No.2328 which came into force 3-Oct-1994 Nick Rouse

Harmonics Standards

1995-12-21 Thread Nick Rouse
in which you don't need to. I suspect the UK authorities will turn a blind eye to to a technical breach of this standard during this time provided the vote is positive but I not so sure the German authorities will. Nick Rouse

Re: Declaration of Conformity

1995-12-01 Thread Nick Rouse
with every item may avoid administative delays if the authorities were to question compliance. Nick Rouse

Re: Need info of immunity test lab in UK

1995-11-21 Thread Nick Rouse
need them Nick Rouse