Re: [PSES] committee member motivations

2019-08-10 Thread Ruth Shapira
Dear Rich, I strongly agree with you. Best Regards, Steli Steli Loznen, M.Sc., SM-IEEE VP for Technical Activities and Member of BoG IEEE-PSES Convener IEC 62A/MT29+MT 62354 17-3 Shaul HaMelech Blvd. Tel Aviv 6436719 Israel Tel:+972-3-6912668 Fax:+972-3-6913988 Mobile:+972-54-4818816 e-mail:

Re: [PSES] committee member motivations

2019-08-10 Thread John Woodgate
I meant to add that we have to take economic considerations into account as well as engineering and science. No-one would thank us for specifying an EMC test that takes three weeks to carry out. We leave that to the people who specify environmental tests! Best wishes John Woodgate OOO-Own

Re: [PSES] committee member motivations

2019-08-10 Thread John Woodgate
I think that in many cases all of the bullet items apply to active members of a committee. The number of active members may be significantly fewer than the total membership. At the committee level, at least in the IEC and BSI committees that I have attended, is not based on majority voting but

[PSES] committee member motivations

2019-08-10 Thread Richard Nute
Regarding the standards... standards are written by guys like you and me. Experts in the WG and national committees are not paid for their knowledge (which actually is one of the finest on the planet !) , and many of them will confirm that they (or their employer) actually need to pay to

Re: [PSES] Conducted emissions AMN/AAN layout

2019-08-10 Thread Ken Javor
I have only peripherally been aware of this thread, but reading these last two posts makes me wonder why you don¹t have some sheet metal you can punch to your heart¹s content, but the sheet metal always connects to the floor beneath it the exact same away. Same concept as a bulkhead plate that can

Re: [PSES] Conducted emissions AMN/AAN layout

2019-08-10 Thread John Woodgate
I endorse paragraph 2 below. We in GB are lucky that participation in standards work in BSI is free. (But it doesn't stop us complaining about the cost of BSI standards - a doozy I found yesterday is £200 for six pages, of which three are the actual text.) Standards work is to a significant

Re: [PSES] Conducted emissions AMN/AAN layout

2019-08-10 Thread Gert Gremmen
Drilling holes in  (new) chamber is like drilling holes in your new cars roof for an antenna. I can imagine your hesitation. However there is (as long as the holes are not to big and correctly made) nothing against it. If it allows you to reliably position your AMN devices you  need, a swiss