Re: [PSES] SELV/PELV power supplies

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message e8fe7b2b522643a5b229902d6244c...@bl2pr08mb052.namprd08.prod.outlook.com , dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Nyffenegger, Dave dave.nyffeneg...@bhemail.com writes: Yes, I meant another standard specific to power supplies, compliance to which would without a doubt include SELV rating. -Dave

Re: [PSES] FCC EMI Test and Ferrites on Cables - a conundrum

2014-09-05 Thread Pawson, James
But John, HDMI uses a differential signalling interface which is known to provide low emissions! 8-) -Original Message- From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: 04 September 2014 19:44 To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] FCC EMI Test and Ferrites on

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Anthony Thomson
Hi Doug, If you cut through the hype, and follow the clues (the pocket claims 100dB attenuation) you arrive here: http://www.aaronia.com/products/shielding-screening/Aaronia-X-Dream-100dB-shielding-fleece/ I only spent 2 minutes looking, there are likely to be other similar products.

Re: [PSES] FCC EMI Test and Ferrites on Cables - a conundrum

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message cec6039c09630543852b1a8cfa0a0c790de63...@stwpiexc03.sats.corp, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Pawson, James james.paw...@echostar.com writes: But John, HDMI uses a differential signalling interface which is known to provide low emissions! 8-) Oh, right. So no ferrites are actually

Re: [PSES] Battery certification issue

2014-09-05 Thread CR
On 9/4/2014 1:09 PM, Richard Nute wrote: They use the argument that the NRTL must KNOW that the equipment is safe through their own measurements. They cannot be held responsible for tests that are done by another NRTL. Or liable for another's.Pay for three approvals and use the one

Re: [PSES] Caution to those who live outside of California and got there on business!!! (Don't)

2014-09-05 Thread CR
On 9/2/2014 8:21 PM, Nyffenegger, Dave wrote: So if my employer who is not CA based but does have other direct employees in CA, sends me to CA for a few days to work, they have to take out the CA income tax too? Seems like CA has put up a big closed for business sign. Could be worse.

Re: [PSES] Battery certification issue

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message 54097f7a.3030...@earthlink.net, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, CR k...@earthlink.net writes: Pay for three approvals and use the one that's granted? Ouch! Yes, that's a danger; some test houses (not in USA, of course) would see a commercial advantage in being a bit lax, so more clients

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Doug Powell
Wow,100 dB is pretty impressive.I have seen heavy drapery mean to set up a temporary shield room that was not that good. And at one time a shield room I worked in had about 103 dB shielding effectiveness at 3GHz, with all steel walls and EMI gasketed seams.

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message 20140905132845.6037649.80805.13...@gmail.com, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Doug Powell doug...@gmail.com writes: 100 dB is pretty impressive.  It's a matter of a very fine, interlocked weave. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Quid faciamus nisi sit?

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Doug Powell
Ah yes, But can ‎coax cable with a double layer shield claim that much attenuation at all frequencies?  Thanks, - doug Douglas Powell http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01     Original Message   From: John Woodgate Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 7:51 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Reply To:

Re: [PSES] Battery certification issue

2014-09-05 Thread Binayak Marahatta
Hello Sudhakar, I am just trying to understand here. India is CB Scheme member but it does not accept any CB test report and they also have in country test requirement using BIS standard instead i don't understand it . Please clarify the steps and process including advantage of using CB

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message 20140905135401.6037649.303.13...@gmail.com, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Doug Powell doug...@gmail.com writes: Ah yes, But can coax cable with a double layer shield claim that much attenuation at all frequencies?  I doubt that braided shields made of such fine filaments would be

[PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Carpentier Kristiaan
Hi group, A ITE product is tested to EN55022 Radiated emission with a well defined setup (cables, traffic, etc...) trying to find the worst case emissions and it passes. I think finding the real worst case emission for all frequencies with one and the same set-up is in practice not possible in

[PSES] Applicable SAR standard for a VoIP GSM Gateway

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Loerzer
Hi, regarding health and safety requirements required by RTTED 1999/5/EC: Is compliance with EN 50385 or EN 62311 required? Best regards Dipl.-Ing. Michael Loerzer Managing Director Regulatory Affairs Specialist Globalnorm GmbH Kurfürstenstr. 112 10787 Berlin Phone

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Macy
It is my understanding that what you say is correct. From memory, PROVING something complies is different than VERIFYING something complies. For example, as a customer, or a monitoring entity, when 'verifying'; you are allowed a single tone over the limit, because statistically that can just

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Doug Powell
Kris, The test standards describe a standardized setup of the environmental conditions, the test equipment, the field calibrations and the UUT, all described in enough detail to be able to duplicate the setup at a later time. This is supposed to ensure that testing at another qualified lab,

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Carpentier Kristiaan
Hi Doug, Assuming both labs are qualified as you say, you also make the assumption that the 2nd lab has full knowledge about the setup of the EUT. And that's exactly the problem. That 2nd lab doesn't know and thus results may be different, even fail, due to the relative positions of the EUT

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Allen, Chris
Hi Kris, As long as the configuration that the customer / market surveillance authority has used is valid and representative of use and tested according to the standard I don't think you will have a leg to stand on. Have a look at Whereas: (17) in the EMC Directive 2004/108/EC. It states

Re: [PSES] Battery certification issue

2014-09-05 Thread jral...@productsafetyinc.com
Hi Kevin, Thank you for the clarifications and status of the NRTL program. And the link for updates!! Have a nice weekend! From: Kevin Robinson [mailto:kevinrobinso...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 3:51 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Battery

[PSES] UN ECE R10 Regulation No. 10 Labelling Requirements

2014-09-05 Thread John McAuley
All Many regulations allow for the regulatory marks to be applied to accompanying documentation or packaging when the item is too small. There does not appear to be any guidance in this respect in UN ECE R10 for EMC. Sub-assembly An approval mark described in paragraph 5.3. below

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread dward
One of the reasons, many years ago, that a 'standard' setup was determined in both CISPR and ANSI standards was to relieve the never ending always present constant manipulation of cables and equipment. While the EUT is to be operating in a typical use scenario, the setup should be as depicted

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread dward
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Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Kunde, Brian
Many years ago while employed by a different company we had one of our products surveillance tested at a national test lab in another country. Our product failed radiated emissions by 2db. They said that because this was within their Measurement Uncertainty of 4.5db that they could not fail it

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Ted Eckert
I'm curious if users of these shielding pockets will discover the law of unintended consequences. If a cell phone is placed in the pocket, it will have trouble picking up the signal from any cell towers. The phone will boost its transmit power and my try linking to the towers more frequently. I

Re: [PSES] Applicable SAR standard for a VoIP GSM Gateway

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Derby
Hi Michael, Those standards look reasonable. Sometimes it is possible that more than one standard could apply. I would recommend this TGN document for good European RF Exposure guidance….. http://www.rtteca.com/TGN%2017%20Version%203%20Update%20February%202014.pdf Michael.

Re: [PSES] Applicable SAR standard for a VoIP GSM Gateway

2014-09-05 Thread Charlie Blackham
Michael The RTTE Compliance Association have a useful Technical Guidance Note on this: http://www.rtteca.com/TGN%2017%20Version%203%20Update%20February%202014.pdf regards Charlie From: Michael Loerzer [mailto:loerzer_mob...@globalnorm.de] Sent: 05 September 2014 15:58 To:

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Gary McInturff
Snooping just poked it's little head into my life recently. There are about a bazillion people monitoring, or capable of monitoring, you, Apple, Samsung, NSA, local police, etc. And even though I knew it was being done I posted a picture to social media that was taken by someone else. The app

Re: [PSES] UN ECE R10 Regulation No. 10 Labelling Requirements

2014-09-05 Thread Brian Oconnell
In general, agree with the mfr if not part of the vehicle's original equipment and not a spare part identical to what was installed as original equipment. R10 describes the mark in annex 1. The NCB or CAB that does the assessment and writes the report should provide marking info. For EU/EFTA

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Gary McInturff
Exactly. In fact before the standard setup the worst case setup would mean an examination of permutations. A system of 6 devices could have a million test configurations. A,B,C,D,E,F - A,C,D,E,F,B - A,C,D,E,B, F ad nausium. And a strict interpretation of that could mean that you do if for

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Kunde, Brian
Snooping has been a common subject with the media recently, but realistically, as long as I'm not breaking any laws or post nude pictures of myself on the cloud, what do I care if someone is snooping my cell phone? What real harm can come of it? And I'm not talking about skilled hackers

Re: [PSES] Battery certification issue

2014-09-05 Thread Pete Perkins
Colleagues, Well, altho my initial question ran far afield I thank everyone who chimed in to respond. The discussion has been quite interesting even tho the initial question is still left somewhat hanging. The business/cultural/legal

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Sundstrom, Mike
Are not forgetting site variations also? I think the site attenuation has leeway also. I remember something like +8-0 dB??? Michael Sundstrom Garmin Compliance Engineer 2-2606 (913) 440-1540 Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Ken Javor
Using apps is conditional on accepting the app developers¹ terms. But if the question includes what difference it makes if the police can track you, well that isn¹t a big deal at all. Just the difference between being a subject or being a citizen. People who don¹t know or care about the

Re: [PSES] UN ECE R10 Regulation No. 10 Labelling Requirements

2014-09-05 Thread Schaefer, David
Brian, One point on e/E-marking - in the automotive sector, 'e' marking is going away. As of November, the EU is only doing certification per UN ECE R10, so requires the 'E' mark. Thanks, David Schaefer EMC Chief Technical Advisor TÜV SÜD America Inc Office: 651 638 0251 Cell: 612 578 6038

Re: [PSES] Battery certification issue

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message 006201cfc938$cf4f3560$6deda020$@cs.com, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Pete Perkins 0061f3f32d0c-dmarc-requ...@ieee.org writes: .  From my perspective the NA Recognition of component safety provides a unique building block capability for mfgrs in that the same components do not need to

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Brian Oconnell
What harm?!?! Space aliens and zombies, most obviously. Many people have their life's data on their smartphone. Potential for financial or medical disaster. Also, this personal information goes to 'big' data where marketing dweebs generate profiles to enable sales manipulations. Nothing new

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message d02f7164.5f1ab%ken.ja...@emccompliance.com, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Ken Javor ken.ja...@emccompliance.com writes: But if the question includes what difference it makes if the police can track you, well that isn¹t a big deal at all. Just the difference between being a subject or

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message 65eb7d8099b14f948b584475acc1f...@bn1pr0201mb0819.namprd02.prod.outlook.c om, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Carpentier Kristiaan kristiaan.carpent...@technicolor.com writes: A ITE product is tested to EN55022 Radiated emission with a well defined setup (cables, traffic, etc...) trying to

[PSES] UL 60950-1 clause 2.2.3

2014-09-05 Thread John Cochran
From: John Cochran Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 3:47 PM To: 'emc-p...@ieee.org' Subject: UL 60950-1 clause 2.2.3 I am doing compliance testing on an outdoor computer/display and am having problems with complying with clause 2.2.3 of UL 60950-1 and clause 6.2 of UL 60950-22. When the earth

[PSES] Vietnam wireless approvals.

2014-09-05 Thread S Drysdale
Dear list members, I was hoping some one might be able to point me in the right direction for Vietnam wireless approvals. The device is already FCC certified under 15.247 and is a 2.4 GHz transmitter. I am trying to find out the requirements for the test lab, the requirements or standards for

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Nyffenegger, Dave
Once the technology/cost allow for the tracking of everyone then that's what they will do. And decide later what to do with the data. People will come up with lots of ideas to do with the data once they have it. -Dave -Original Message- From: John Woodgate

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Dan Roman, N.C.E.
Hey Gary, at least this one is relatively mundane but not necessarily benign. The picture had GPS coordinates in the meta data inserted by the device that took the original picture (geo-tagged). When you received a copy of the picture that meta data came along with it. Any picture manipulation

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread Carpentier Kristiaan
Hi John, In which document can I find the provision that market surveillance testing is done, in case of dispute, in the way the manufacturer did it? Best regards, Kris Carpentier -Original Message- From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: vrijdag 5 september 2014

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-05 Thread Ken Javor
Dangerous ground indeed, and not a technical subject. Infinitely more important than whether a device meets an EMI requirement, or how to make it do so, but nevertheless this is not the forum for it. However, I didn't bring the subject up. The gentlemen who opined that if he had nothing to

Re: [PSES] Failure of Radiated emission

2014-09-05 Thread John Woodgate
In message e7baf06cd71c4cc59654ac9ac55e6...@bn1pr0201mb0819.namprd02.prod.outlook.c om, dated Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Carpentier Kristiaan kristiaan.carpent...@technicolor.com writes: In which document can I find the provision that market surveillance testing is done, in case of dispute, in the way

Re: [PSES] UL 60950-1 clause 2.2.3

2014-09-05 Thread Richard Nute
Hi John: Nothing wrong. When the ground is opened, you get about half the mains on the (formerly) grounded parts. All equipment does this, including two- wire equipment. Even a three-wire power cord does this! The voltage is due to a capacitive voltage divider, line-chassis-neutral. The