Chris' humorous story is true!

Hello from San Diego: One of my colleagues has added material of interest to one of Chris Allen's humorous stories. Best regards, Rich This is actually a true story (with some adjustment). It happened at a Ford plant back in the 1930's (which makes the $50K fee all the more

RE: 3rd draft proposed EEE Directive

Art, there appears to be three draft directives: The WEEE, to which you refer, address the proper disposal of equipment. And there is the one on heavy metals and other toxic items to which you refer. The third, the EEE Directive, addresses the environmental design of equipment. A meeting was held

Re: 3rd draft proposed EEE Directive

Hello Richard, The proposal, I believe, is well beyond the 3rd Draft Stage. It was published in the Official Journal on 19 DEC 2000 as the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliment and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment. The citation is: 2000/C 365 E/12. I

3rd draft proposed EEE Directive

I understand that the Commission has issued the 3rd draft of the proposed directive on Impact on the Environment of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE), but I can't find it on their web site. Does anyone have a copy or know where to find it? Richard Woods

RE: Is 61000-3-2 compulsory?

Your power supply manufacturer is mistaken. EN 61000-3-2 became mandatory the first of the year (as did EN 61000-3-3). PFC isn't mandatory, compliance with the harmonics requirements is. It is commonly met by the use of PFC, however. Ghery Pettit Intel -Original Message- From: Jon

RE: Print on demand labels - UL/CSA approved

I am staring at a similar solution. I was just reviewing it before I sent it off to UL for our new product. The system is from Intermec the main PCA's carry a ID label put on at their assembly time and these labels are scanned at unit production time as they roll down the assembly line into

Mil-Std-100C

Hi listmembers, Would anyone know if there is a pdf of MIL-STD 100C (not D, E, F, or G) available on the Web? It's not in the DOD listing any more. Joseph T. Curtin Dover Instrument 200 Flanders Rd. Westboro, MA. 01581.

RE: Print on demand labels - UL/CSA approved

Chris, I introduced this method into the factory about 10 years ago. The first iteration was using die cut myler label stock on a laser printer. It turned out to be very time consuming and you had to print 8 identical (s/n incremented for each) labels at a time. The next step was a thermal

Re:Print on demand labels - UL/CSA approved

Chris we have a printer and labels that should meet your needs. It is our model 9850 with our TuffMark labels. The TuffMark labels are UL Recognized. We use them to label our own products. You can contact me directly for more information. Jim Jim Bacher, Senior Engineer Paxar - Monarch

RE: Print on demand labels - UL/CSA approved

Hi Chris, From one Chris to another, I wanted to hook you up with Computer Imprintable Label Systems LLC (CILS). www.cils-labels.com They make sheets of kiss cut labels of varying shapes and sizes. Their blank stock is designed to be run through a laser jet printer. What we do is use a

RE: Approvals for China

George and Courtland, It's my understanding that the mentioned item 21 Telecommunication Terminal Equipment seems not applicable to the RS-232 Aysnch to Synch converter. I thought it's for products like telephone and Modem, etc. For the mentioned product, generally we will consider about two