Re: Sound measurement

1999-04-09 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear Jim, Bruel and Kjaer http://www.bk.dk/; has over the years published a lot of articles on these kind of tests. In many cases they wrote or drove the test method and/or the standard. You can enquire of them what technical articles they have on test methods. They have offices around the world

RE: Sound measurement

1999-04-08 Thread Luttrell, Lyle
James, What is the product that you are interested in? There are quite a few standards that deal with product noise measurements, not all use the same measurement distance. Many use sound power, which is independent of distance. Lyle Luttrell Regulatory /Reliability Engineer Breece Hill

RE: Sound measurement

1999-04-08 Thread Flinders, Randall
James, John Downs of dB Sound Labs has always been able to answer those types of questions for me. You might try giving him a call. His contact info is shown below... John Downs Sr. Staff Engineer (760) 940-4216 Fax: (760) 940-6321 412 Hillway Drive Vista, Ca. 92084-6342 -- Sincerely,

Re: Sound measurement

1999-04-08 Thread ron_pickard
James, I believe the standard you want is ISO 7779 Measurement of airborne noise emitted by computer and business equipment. In a past life I had to use this standard and in it are specific measurement criteria. Some criteria from memory are number and placement of microphones,