Re: Cell Phone Hazards?

1999-12-09 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Barry: Thanks for the URL. An even better paper at the FCC web site is: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/documents/bulletins/#56 OET Bulletin Number 56 (Fourth Edition August 1999) Questions and Answers about Biological Effects and Potential Hazards of Radiofrequency

RE: Cell Phone Hazards?

1999-12-09 Thread Pettit, Ghery
I'd love to see how they performed that measurement. At a typical user to antenna distance, one is pretty close to the near field / far field boundary. The measurement method must have been interesting. Ghery -Original Message- From: Grasso, Charles (Chaz)

RE: Cell Phone Hazards?

1999-12-09 Thread Grasso, Charles (Chaz)
Hi Ghery - I seem to recall that NIST here in Boulder performed some experiments that measured the field from a cell phone at a typical usage distance at 700V/m!! -Original Message- From: Pettit, Ghery [mailto:ghery.pet...@intel.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:49 AM To:

GFCI suppliers

1999-12-09 Thread David_L_Tarnowski
Does anyone know about how much of the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt (GFCI) market share each of these companies have? 1. Eagle 2. Arrow Hart 3. Hubble 3a. Bryant (made by Hubble?) 4. Leviton 5. Square D

RE: Cell Phone Hazards?

1999-12-09 Thread rbusche
Interestingly enough, today on one of the independent radio networks, a commentator interviewed numerous persons associated with the investigation of radiation on the human body from Cell phones. One professor from the University of Washington (Seattle) claims to have evidence

Re: Cell Phone Hazards?

1999-12-09 Thread Barry Ma
Hi, Introduced by our local EMC chapter (SCVemc.org), I visited http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/rfsafety/ and surfed to FCC OET Bulletin 65 Evaluating Compliance with FCC Guidelines for Human Exposure to RF Electromagnetic Fields from there. Those who are concerned may go there. Barry Ma Anritsu

RE: Boilerplate Disclaimer?

1999-12-09 Thread Grant, Tania (Tania)
George, This is an excellent idea;-- however, knowing how litigious this country is, what are the liability risks for IEEE - EMC/PSTC, etc. when posting such a message under their banner! Inversely, would it do the rest of us any good, or would some lawyer come after the unfortunate individual

RE: Open Frame EMI Filters

1999-12-09 Thread Grasso, Charles (Chaz)
Go ahead and put it on the pwb. We do it anf it works very well. There is a caveat though - pay a lot of attention to the layout and final installation. -Original Message- From: POWELL, DOUG [mailto:doug.pow...@aei.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:16 AM To: EMC-PSTC (E-mail);

Re: Boilerplate Disclaimer?

1999-12-09 Thread georgea
Robert, You raise a good point, one worth airing over the server. 1. I view inputs from subscribers of the listserver like pages from a book. The book may have disclaimers at the beginning. If one copies a page without the disclaimers, and this subsequently creates a problem for the

RE: Open Frame EMI Filters

1999-12-09 Thread Frank West
Hi Doug! Ignoring the EMC questions (as I can safely do, being a product safety division engineer at TUV!) the enclosure of the open frame supply would have to meet the same safety requirements as any other enclosure around a hazardous voltage circuit. The creepage and clearance distances

Re: Open Frame EMI Filters

1999-12-09 Thread Ralph Cameron
Doug: It would seem logical that the shield will guarantee a high degree of immunity to local radiated fields. If the filter is a commerical one its specs are probably dependent on the shield being in situ. Even though it may meet the EMC test requirement, there is an added degree of safety

RE: Using RTTE directive before April 2000?

1999-12-09 Thread Roger Magnuson
Joe, To the best of my knowledge, the implementation of RTTE differs from all previous telecoms directives as *all* Member States *must* start using it on April 8, 2000. The current TTE Directive is valid until April 7, 2000. As you know, the current Directive took much too long to implement

RE: Using RTTE directive before April 2000?

1999-12-09 Thread H.T. Hildering
The situation is simple, The European Commission has stated that the RTTE directive will come effectively in force on the 8th of April 2000 for all EU countries. Therefore all member countries are obliged to transpose it into their national regulation before that date. All member countries shall

RE: Open Frame EMI Filters

1999-12-09 Thread Art Michael
Hi Jim, This thread takes me 'back to the eighties' (when I first entered the c-a field and was working with UL 478: You are correct with your comments regarding the perceived flammability of line filter caps. The scenerio is/was that live parts are required to be enclosed (in the US, per the

RE: EN 60950 Checklist

1999-12-09 Thread WOODS
We obtained an electronic copy from our European based safety agency. Ask them. Richard Woods -- From: teck...@apcc.com [SMTP:teck...@apcc.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 9:23 AM To: rbus...@es.com Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject:

RE: Open Frame EMI Filters

1999-12-09 Thread teckert
You do not need a metal case for an EMI filter. It is perfectly acceptable to put a pair of Y capacitors, a common mode choke and an X cap on a circuit board to form a basic line filter. (Be careful; if you use Y1 capacitors, a single capacitor may be used between line and earth. If you use Y2

Re: EN 60950 Checklist

1999-12-09 Thread teckert
The Regulatory Compliance Information Center web site has ECMA TR-39, Compliance Verification Report, available on-line. http://www.rcic.com/reg/tr39page.cfm?p=1d=content The information is not in a form that can be downloaded, but it does give you a general idea of what is available from ECMA.

RE: Products with high power LEDs

1999-12-09 Thread John Juhasz
Richard, Be careful . . . UL 1950 3rd Ed, Section 4.3.12, Equipment that can generate ionizing radiation or ultraviolet light, or that uses a laser . . . does make a reference to IEC 825-1 BUT it is has a line through it. It is a D1 deviation. You are then refered to Annex NAE where 4.3.12 now

Re: EN 60950 Checklist

1999-12-09 Thread Art Michael
Hello Rick, If you visit the CB Scheme website you can find a section that offers Test Report Forms (TRFs) for a number of IEC and EN Standards. After paying the associated fee with your credit card, the TRFs can immediately be downloaded from the site. Easily accessed from the Safety Link

Re: Products with high power LEDs

1999-12-09 Thread bogdanmm
Greetings: May I suggest that you look first on the LED output and what restrictions apply to a laser of that power, considering accessibility etc. This will give you an indications of the major problems. Apply EN60950 and EN60825 and do not use the supply with 24 V as an excuse - sorry, I should