NEBS 2000 Conferences

2000-03-16 Thread CHRIS WELLBORN
I would just like to share some information that I obtained this morning concerning the above conferences. Telcordia and Bell Atlantic will be hosting the NEBS conference in Baltimore on October 4-5, 2000. The preliminary agenda and key speakers are shown at the following website:

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread Dick Grobner
You could contact our Notified Body - TUV Product Services at 1-651-638-0261 or http://www.tuvps.com Dennis Swanson is the EMI Engineer I deal with. I know they do quite allot of EMI work on pacemakers/defibrillators and the like as we have some of the big boys up here in Mpls/St.Paul (i.e.

FW: Mexico Regulatory Requirements

2000-03-16 Thread Bandele Adepoju
The telephone number to ITS, Menlo Park is 650-463-2959. The number provided below is their fax line. My mistake. Sorry, Bandele Jetstream Communications, Inc. badep...@jetstream.com -Original Message- From: Bandele Adepoju Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:46 PM To: TREG (E-mail);

RE: Mexico Regulatory Requirements

2000-03-16 Thread Bandele Adepoju
Paul, Try ITS (Intertek Testing Services). It is my understanding that they have local representation in Mexico and can assist in obtaining the NOM mark. They should be able to provide you with the correct answer to your question. The telephone number of their office in Menlo Park, California

Mexico Regulatory Requirements

2000-03-16 Thread Lubeski, Paul
Dear List members: Can anyone provide the Regulatory and Industry Network and CPE requirements (e.g., equivalence of Product Safety (UL 1950) , FCC Part 15, Part 68, 470-B, etc.) and approval authority contact(s) for Mexico? Thanks in advance. Paul A. Lubeski Project Manager, Telephone

Mexico Regulatory Requirements

2000-03-16 Thread Lubeski, Paul
Dear List members: Can anyone provide the Product Safety and Industry/Regulatory Network requirements and approval authority contact(s) for Mexico? Thank you. Paul A. Lubeski Project Manager, Telephone Technology Center Wyle Laboratories, Inc. 7800 HWY 20 W. Huntsville, AL 35806 (256)

standard for lead shot dielectric testing

2000-03-16 Thread barrym
I'm looking for reference to any standard which may provide specifics for using lead shot for dielectric strength testing. I know this done for insulation system qualifications, just have not identified a standard for the test set up. Thanks, Barry Marks

Re: SAF: Insulation resistance and hipot tests

2000-03-16 Thread Art Michael
Hello Martin, I don't have the answer to your question, but do caution that the First Test to be run (if the DUT is grounded) is the Ground Continuity Test (for test-operator protection). Regards, Art Michael * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

SAF: Insulation resistance and hipot tests

2000-03-16 Thread Martin Rowe (TMW)
Group, A reader asked about the order of performing safety tests. Should he perform insulation resistance tests before or after hipot tests? The reader didn't say what type of product he's testing, but I can ask. Thanks, /\ | Martin Rowe | / \ |

RE: NEBS 2000 Conferences

2000-03-16 Thread JIM WIESE
Could someone enlighten me on what is meant by NEBS 2000 requirements? Is there some sort of standards work going on here? Thanks, Jim Jim Wiese NEBS Project Manager/Compliance Engineer ADTRAN, INC. 901 Explorer Blvd. P.O. Box 14 Huntsville, AL 35814-4000 256-963-8431 256-963-8250 fax

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread jestuckey
Contact ISMAEL MARTINEZ NCE/NCT 210-522-3631 imarti...@swri.org SwRI EMCR group does a large amount of work in this area for government and civilian applications. JOHN E. STUCKEY EMC Engineer Micron Technology, Inc. Integrated Products Group Micron Architectures Lab 8455 West

RE: NEBS 2000 Conferences

2000-03-16 Thread Gary McInturff
Both Telecordia and UL are test houses that can deal with NEBS testing. Telcordia has probably been at it longer than UL and used to be a part of MA Bell, and then Bell Labs. UL in the last couple of years has been putting on NEBS seminars at which all of the RBOC's Bell Atlantic,

RE: Russian Certification of Products

2000-03-16 Thread Gorodetsky, Vitaly
Dear Edward, I concur with your comments regarding central differences between sales and compliance expertise. It is clear to me that Russians have learned to speak with sales people in their own language. However, I respectfully disagree with your opening statement. The better one gets

RE: NEBS 2000 Conferences

2000-03-16 Thread John Juhasz
I attended one of the very first NEBS seminars held, a few years back. It was hosted by Bellcore (now known as Telcordia). They are the ones who wrote the specs., with input from the RBOCs (although some of the RBOCs may have additional requirements, and some also make the 'objective' specs in

Re: Spanish analog interface

2000-03-16 Thread Corinne SALINGRE
Are you speaking of Telefonica and Spain ? If yes, part of the answer ... * Concerning analog telephone interfaces, you can tests them against TBR21 in any accredited lab within EU or outside, for the regulatory part, before april, 8th 2000 (RTTE directive, refer to others messages on that

Re: EMC Safety: requirements for BCIQ approval

2000-03-16 Thread David Instone
To all those who replied to my posting, Thank you. (I wonder how many deleted it thinking it was on the proposed split. [A Bad Idea] It was tricky trying to compose a title that would get through and also go along with the proposal for prefixes of EMC and or Safety! ) -- Regards Dave

Re: Insulation of energized water (De-Ionized Water)

2000-03-16 Thread Dan Mitchell
A long time ago, while I was a member of Uncle Sams Canoe Club, I worked on a radar system that used D.I. Water. The tubes in the liquid cooler were copper and the heat exchanger was CRES. The water was circulated throughout the transmitter group and through a Klystron where it was heated and

Re: Russian Certification of Products and other countries

2000-03-16 Thread Kevin Newland
Dear Rene, It sounds as if you have been offended by my comments. If this is the case I apologise for this. I did mention in my reply (without being rude). Any way, when I said on a daily basis, it was meant as a example. What it meant that they change frequently. For example if you want to

RE: EMC and product safety split?

2000-03-16 Thread George, David L
Still better, only important chatter should be posted. I have just violated my suggestion. Dave -Original Message- From: John Coyle [mailto:jco...@norsat.com] Sent: 10 March, 2000 5:15 PM To: 'Robert Legg'; 'IEEE EMC-PSTC Forum' Subject: RE: EMC and product safety split? A better

RE: EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread WOODS
Mike, A1:1996 of EN50061:1995 has the EMC requirements for implantable cardiac pacemakers. It can be ordered on the web from BSI. Richard Woods Sunning in Florida -- From: Michael Taylor [SMTP:mtay...@hach.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:19 AM

EN standard for pacemaker immunity

2000-03-16 Thread Michael Taylor
Greetings all. An issue came up that needs answers as soon as possible. Does anyone in the group know if there are any European standards covering pacemaker (and similar devices) immunity to Electric Magnetic fields. A search of Global Eng. Documents product list proved fruitless. I'm sure

RE: Antenna factors to be used for NSA measurement

2000-03-16 Thread UMBDENSTOCK
Thank you Robert for a well detailed response. Even though this issue seems to come up every year, more clarification is the outcome. Your response clarifies issues that were not as fully addressed (or at least not fully understood by me) in previous threads. I'll call this Chapter Three of my

RE: Russian Certification of Products

2000-03-16 Thread Edward Fitzgerald
Dear Chris, Only one rule is common throughout this region (and you should keep reminding yourself of it)... ... and it is that there are no rules! Well okay, there is a framework of rules and Laws that you must operate within, but these are loosely interpreted and the game is how you operate

Re: Russian Certification of Products and other countries

2000-03-16 Thread Jerry Roberton
What you need is a list of recommended Certifying Centers that are providing a service to their non-Russian clients. Please drop me an email describing your broad product family and I will dig them out from the files. Jerry Roberton Use ,jerryrober...@netscapeonline.co.uk Bruce Touzel

RE: Signal Integrity/EMC Software

2000-03-16 Thread Francois Venter
Hi All I have recently undertook a study of such software and found two options that seem to be suprisingly accurate with their predictions: Viewlogic tools and EMC Workbench. The one thing I realised quickly is that the cheap and nasty packages do not always give correct and/or accurate results,

RE: Russian Certification of Products

2000-03-16 Thread Gorodetsky, Vitaly
Chris, I know very little of the category of your product, light industrial test and measurement equipment. But I have been through numerous product GOST-R certifications. My clients included Compaq, Applied Materials, HP, etc. I am afraid that few things have changed since I got out of this

Re: Russian Certification of Products and other countries

2000-03-16 Thread Bruce Touzel
you will also find that some countries will ask for everything that you have on file, eg. DOC's, Network reports, etc. simply because they don't know themselves. r...@twn.tuv.com wrote: What about Japan, AustraliaNewZealand, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico... In many Asian

Re: Russian Certification of Products and other countries

2000-03-16 Thread rc
What about Japan, AustraliaNewZealand, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico... In many Asian Countries (Taiwan, China, Korea, Hongkong.) rules are just being set up. This implies that there are frequent changes, but not on daily basis. And changes are implemented according to a

Insulation of energized water (De-Ionized Water)

2000-03-16 Thread POWELL, DOUG
Hello group, I have a product that uses cooling water and at one point within the system the water is energized to a high voltage level. There are several mechanisms used to insure that the water is safe before exiting the system. I would like to be able to use De-Ionized or Triple Distilled

RE: Antenna factors to be used for NSA measurement

2000-03-16 Thread Robert Bonsen
A well designed antenna will be balanced, i.e., it will be geometry independent. Looking at the factors for our 3110b, they look very nearly the same for horizontal and vertical polarization as well as at 3 meters and 10 meters. This suggests we should save the money for this model antenna and