Re: [PSES] Type plate requirements in Canada - CSA approval?

2011-11-14 Thread McInturff, Gary
UL and CSA do have recognized or certified labeling systems which involve the paper, ink, and adhesive for the material upon which it is applied. The CB folks don't trust it and we have to have a sample tested every time. Not than being annoyed in having to send a sample every time I haven't

Re: [PSES] CE marking of deep-fat fryer

2011-11-15 Thread McInturff, Gary
Ralph, no real argument to the benefit except especially the safety folks won't even go into court as an expert witness on your behalf. But the benefit of the third party is more in how deep they get into your wallet. is the reasonable manufacturer doctrine in Tort law. It's just what it sounds

Re: [PSES] CE marking of deep-fat fryer

2011-11-15 Thread McInturff, Gary
Yup, it's the theory of deep pockets but there still has to be proximal cost for them to drag anybody into the fray UL didn't design it, they didn't sell it, and they didn't tell anybody it was safe - only that it meets the standards for safety that exist at the time of review. I suppose it was

[PSES] DoC - maybe asked and answered but looking for one more answer

2011-12-09 Thread McInturff, Gary
Knowing there are directives for EMC, Safety, and RoHS compliance I am a bit uncertain what to do with a subassembly which is in itself incomplete and not fully functional but requires entry into the EU so that it can become part of a larger system - also requiring all the regulations. We

Re: [PSES] What means do you use to exercise Ethernet telecom ports?

2011-12-28 Thread McInturff, Gary
Jim, You can use equipment like an Ixia box to drive traffic it has the advantage over simple ping etc in that you can shape the traffic, add delays, jitter etc, and monitor the data throughout the test, particularly immunity testing. It's a bit pricey but it has numerous capabilities

Re: [PSES] What means do you use to exercise Ethernet telecom ports?

2011-12-28 Thread McInturff, Gary
An old clause in C64 and I believe the EU ITE test set-up indicated you could stop adding identical I/O's the X+1 I/O emission changes by less than 2 db. I remember, but don't have an old HP study on the edition of fiber optic transceivers and it showed that it never really stopped increasing

Re: [PSES] Experts and Wisdom

2012-01-03 Thread McInturff, Gary
Probably right after the battle of Gettysburg Gary From: Pettit, Ghery [mailto:ghery.pet...@intel.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:23 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Experts and Wisdom “Judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgment.” Robert

Re: [PSES] Experts and Wisdom

2012-01-04 Thread McInturff, Gary
Rather than wise man – here is citation from the wiseguy arena. My dad always said, “You’re not completely worthless – you can always serve as a bad example” Funny man, my dad – snort! (Wiseguy is a sarcastic American idiom meaning – Informal . a cocksure, conceited, and often insolent

[PSES] 61000-4-2 3rd edition

2012-01-10 Thread McInturff, Gary
I'm trying to track down a customer requirement for a piece of medical gear and apparently I'm a revision behind. They have a requirement for 15 and 30 kV air and contact discharge and they reference the 3rd edition standard. My current standard doesn't have levels that go that high. Normally I

Re: [PSES] EN 60601-1 3ed seminar

2012-01-16 Thread McInturff, Gary
Kim, I have some customers in your area and I'll see if they can help - unfortunately between me and the guy that would know are several layers of people so I may not get an answer but I'll try. Beyond that when you do find it, I would focus not so much on the technical changes

Re: [PSES] Electrical installation - Approval or required permission by an AHJ in the US (29 CFR 1910 subpart S, NFPA 70/79)

2012-01-16 Thread McInturff, Gary
Just a secondary thought here. I caught Rich's comment about hoping the inspectors would agree on the lab. One can take a CB report from an NCB - say TUV or VDE and send the report to a more widely accepted US lab - say UL, and after review of the national deviations get a UL sticker if you so

[PSES] 120 ohm CAN cable

2012-01-24 Thread McInturff, Gary
Can bus requires a 120 termination, and I have a client that is trying to do it with the bare cable, and I don't know that such cable exists unless custom built. I'm aware of impedance controlled coax but this is just your standard hookup cable in an appropriate jacket. We terminate the line at

Re: [PSES] 120 ohm CAN cable

2012-01-24 Thread McInturff, Gary
Thanks, that is exactly what I keep trying to tell them, unsuccessfully for the moment, and wanted to check my facts. Gary From: Rob Kado [mailto:rk...@chrysler.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:42 AM To: McInturff, Gary; 'EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG' Subject: RE: 120 ohm CAN cable

Re: [PSES] UL recognized molders

2012-01-24 Thread McInturff, Gary
I've used us recognized molded vendors multiple time, they were all US and not China or other offshore - but the cost compared to other vendors was minimal. You're right it's a paper chase, the audit is, or at least was, on the molding process not the part being produced. UL comes in ask what

Re: [PSES] Another TMP audit

2012-01-24 Thread McInturff, Gary
Monty Python - department of arguments sketch with John Clease (spelling?) Enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F7dL41VaRk Gary -Original Message- From: Brian Oconnell [mailto:oconne...@tamuracorp.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:57 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject:

[PSES] I'm at a loss on lasers

2012-01-26 Thread McInturff, Gary
Does anybody have a succinct answer to the relationship between the FDA and safety approvals? The FDA just seems to classify the maximum out of a laser component, and quite often is class III - and identifies it as harmful to the eye. If I use the device in a product then we have to be

Re: [PSES] Is this common knowledge - Electrical Ratings

2012-01-27 Thread McInturff, Gary
I'm probably just restating Donald's note below but / means that it has two distinct inputs 120 or 240. The hyphen indicates a continuous range of operation from 120 through 240. The definition is buried in EN60950 somewhere but I forget exactly where. That of course doesn't mean that it

Re: [PSES] Is this common knowledge - Electrical Ratings

2012-01-30 Thread McInturff, Gary
As I understand it, it's so the installer, even consumer type stuff - knows how many amps are being pulled for this unit, as well as plugging it into the correct voltage. Gary From: ralph.mcdiar...@schneider-electric.com [mailto:ralph.mcdiar...@schneider-electric.com] Sent: Monday, January

[PSES] coatings as an insulator

2012-01-31 Thread McInturff, Gary
I'm trying to solve a Class II - no earth ground connection - medical device problem. I have one complex part that I need to insulate such I can get two MOPP's of insulation value and it has to be done through an insulator - I can't use creepage or clearance distances to solve the problem. Has

Re: [PSES] Power Supply Inside Wall Cavity

2012-02-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
Even a wiring connection box mounted in a wall or ceiling has to have an access panel. You'll see those occasionally in your house, particularly the basement where somebody added some outlets or something into an existing run. It Rather than a switch or outlet plate, it's just a flat plate with

[PSES] RoHS

2012-02-08 Thread McInturff, Gary
We have an adhesive with no RoHS certs, Are there RoHS capable test labs in the US. I would presume there is some % of total content that is allowed if one only knew what materials are in the adhesive. Not my area just asking for a panicked compatriot. He's looking for any means at the moment

Re: [PSES] Identifying Apparatus in Europe Declarations of Conformity (DOCs)

2012-03-06 Thread McInturff, Gary
Brian, I'm a little confused here and obviously don't know the system but don't your specifications control what any vendor is sending you? They either meet them up front or you would test and evaluate before they can be excepted into your system. If you can't control that then you system

[PSES] UL -187 standard para 32.8

2012-03-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
The standard was for X-ray equipment but has long been withdrawn but a customer specification say's meet it. Does anybody happen to have this clause and willing to share it.? Thanks Gary McInturff Reliability/Compliance Engineer Esterline Interface Technologies Featuring ADVANCED

Re: [PSES] Safety standard for PBX telephone system??

2012-03-19 Thread McInturff, Gary
If one digs a bit into the NEBS requirement they call out approval to 60950-1 - or at least use to call it out. Then they add lots of other stuff environmental - earthquakes protection, corrosive gasses et al. Joe's correct it's a purchase specification not a regulatory requirement. But that

Re: [PSES] New immunity testing by the FAA in the future?

2012-03-19 Thread McInturff, Gary
I'm stunned by this Mr. Bilton's cavalier attitude about other people's time and money, and maybe even more stunned at how little time or research he did before declaring that the whole thing would just be really simple and everything. To keep things moving, the airlines could team up and

Re: [PSES] New immunity testing by the FAA in the future?

2012-03-19 Thread McInturff, Gary
That's the number I have in mind as well - doors close to 10,000 feet, but yes there are the occasional longer times up to an including the stranded on the tarmac stories heard every so often. Gary -Original Message- From: Grasso, Charles [mailto:charles.gra...@echostar.com] Sent:

Re: [PSES] Shipping into Europe - Basic question

2012-03-28 Thread McInturff, Gary
I propose an IECEE form for the Proclamation of the Declaration of a Certification of Conformity. Why propose new documents when good old circular reasoning can solve the problem. Especially if the real problem is not necessarily complying with the directive but getting it past the customs

Re: [PSES] receiving/approval processes under fire

2012-03-29 Thread McInturff, Gary
Comments interspaced in your text below, but basically I agree with you, not only here but over the last 30 years or so of doing this. Gary -Original Message- From: Brian Oconnell [mailto:oconne...@tamuracorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 5:00 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG

Re: [PSES] receiving/approval processes under fire

2012-03-29 Thread McInturff, Gary
I would add one thing to the list - in most cases compliance is a much a part of the customers functional specification as are the more traditional values for operating, intended environment, data rates, pixel size, fit and finish. That is the case whether it's a custom designed product where

[PSES] 60601-1 drop dead date - June 2012 for EU

2012-04-02 Thread McInturff, Gary
Just checking to make sure I understand. For Europe the 60601-1 medical standard transitions from 2nd to 3rd edition. It does the same in the US next June. So after June 1s we can't ship to the EU but What about products that are in our customers warehouses in the EU at that time? Do

Re: [PSES] 60601-1 drop dead date - June 2012 for EU

2012-04-02 Thread McInturff, Gary
d250d01e39356a4e9cc3b4b459d665503ccd0...@ms-cda-01.advanced-input.com, dated Mon, 2 Apr 2012, McInturff, Gary gary.mcintu...@esterline.com writes: What about products that are in our customers warehouses in the EU at that time? Do they have to be recalled or can they be used until the warehouse is empty

[PSES] FW: CE mark for China?

2012-04-02 Thread McInturff, Gary
I understand why we can't send jpg's and bitmaps but that is going to make this a bit more complicated - but I'll give it a try. If you would follow the link. A colleague, whom I appreciate a great deal has an unfortunate habit of taking Wikipedia as valid reference data. I'm trying to break

Re: [PSES] Test Setup for a Display Powered by a PoE Injector

2012-04-04 Thread McInturff, Gary
Possible - sure. You can get a air powered actuator to touch it, but depending on whether its resistive or capacitive. If capacitive you will likely have to build up a little human model pcb for the probe and get it to ground. The air actuator can be driven outside the chamber, if your air

Re: [PSES] AC Power Adapter, IEC 60065 vs IEC 60950-1

2012-04-12 Thread McInturff, Gary
Right smack in the middle of this myself. The answer received so far is it's one directional. UL will accept a 60950 power supply with 60065 equipment, but they cannot have a full CB report written because EU or parts of it (as explained to me) won't allow it. Most maddening is that our

[PSES] Safety cost and ESD

2012-04-23 Thread McInturff, Gary
Given the implementation differences between US/Canada(?) and EU on the medical 60601-1 standards. EU the June, US June 2013. How are folks handling new products being introduced now or in the very near future? Just got a quote back and the US certifier wants to charge me twice once for the 2nd

Re: [PSES] Safety cost and ESD - My copy of 61000-4-2 found its way back to my desk - I have the ESD question answer thanks.

2012-04-23 Thread McInturff, Gary
Gary From: McInturff, Gary [mailto:gary.mcintu...@esterline.com] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:37 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] Safety cost and ESD Given the implementation differences between US/Canada(?) and EU on the medical 60601-1 standards. EU the June, US June

Re: [PSES] Safety cost and ESD

2012-04-25 Thread McInturff, Gary
lucky. Opinions whether this is a 'respectable' test technique? Brian -Original Message- From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org]On Behalf Of Conway, Patrick Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3:53 PM To: McInturff, Gary; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: RE: [PSES] Safety

Re: [PSES] CS116 shielding

2012-04-25 Thread McInturff, Gary
Good quality means high coverage braid, and Charlie's note about the 360 bonding and how the shield is attached is critical and should prove successful from my past experience. The only times I failed with a good shield is when I didn't terminate the shield at both ends or poorly at one end or

Re: [PSES] e-standard.org The cheapest standards in the world

2012-05-08 Thread McInturff, Gary
Would appear the real pirates are at UL and BSI Gary From: Don Gies [mailto:don.g...@alcatel-lucent.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:25 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] e-standard.org The cheapest standards in the world Ahoy, me hearties! My view is that there are too

Re: [PSES] e-standard.org The cheapest standards in the world

2012-05-08 Thread McInturff, Gary
[mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:38 AM To: McInturff, Gary Cc: don.g...@alcatel-lucent.com; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] e-standard.org The cheapest standards in the world Always one to buck the trend, I think these are reasonable prices We are ripped off

[PSES] Statute of limitations

2012-05-29 Thread McInturff, Gary
Is there any time limit on how long a test result is valid for an EMC test - if the product hasn't changed. CB reports have a 3 year shelf life, after which the various CB participants are obligated to take the reports on face value and could require inspection or retest, but I don't know if

Re: [PSES] Statute of limitations

2012-05-29 Thread McInturff, Gary
are always looking for ways to get more chips out of a single wafer. Ted Eckert Compliance Engineer Microsoft Corporation ted.eck...@microsoft.commailto:ted.eck...@microsoft.com The opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. From: McInturff, Gary

Re: [PSES] Test lab for testing power equipment at high altitude

2012-06-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
Just for clarification the chamber itself doesn't provide the power. It's often derived from facilities power and routed into the chamber through the bung hole - yes it seals afterward. The important point is that if you find a chamber that does the temp and altitude you want, you can always

[PSES] Chinese UL?

2012-06-18 Thread McInturff, Gary
Does CCC handle medical products - large X-ray machines and the like, or does China allow the use of a CB report. One of our program manages has been asked to get samples ready for Chinese UL and that the samples don't have to be final versions, just maybe electrical prototypes. I know that

Re: [PSES] Interview Questions

2012-07-03 Thread McInturff, Gary
Well don't try - what is the sound of one hand clapping I asked Siri (iPhone assistant thingy) and she gave me an answer. (Silence) Try to avoid definitions and work the question so they have to demonstrate knowledge of what things do. You might try, if you have inadequate creepage distances

Re: [PSES] Interview Questions

2012-07-03 Thread McInturff, Gary
Isn't there a difference between auto-switching and auto-ranging? Gary From: Ron Pickard [mailto:rpick...@equinoxpayments.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:49 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Interview Questions Hi Scott, That's not always the case. I've had experience

[PSES] Date of cessation of 60601-1 edition 2 in EU

2012-07-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
I'm trying to support boss hog just a bit on a product. I'm looking in OJ for the dates of withdrawal for the 2nd edition of the medical safety standard, and I think I can find that, is there anything more clear that just simple says it's can't be used after such and such a date. We're putting

Re: [PSES] Insulative barriers deposited on metal surfaces

2012-07-18 Thread McInturff, Gary
I approached UL with a similar request earlier this year and I don't remember the exact response but they were looking at it unfavorably because of durability and penetration issues over time. They do have in place a somewhat parallel process though for EMI coatings on plastic parts. (cell

Re: [PSES] Insulative barriers deposited on metal surfaces

2012-07-18 Thread McInturff, Gary
The somehow isn't probably as farfetched as we might imagine. In the medical and ITE standards (and likely others) the provisions for thin insulations. Paint is in fact an insulator after the carrier evaporates. Insulators as a classification are basically thick or thin - and just because

Re: [PSES] EN 61000-4-5

2012-08-01 Thread McInturff, Gary
Non symmetry is also the case of ESD diodes or TVS, they may limit the forward current to 24V, but the reverse might be 18 Vdc, and that varies from vendor to vendor even though they are rated on the data sheet similarly Gary -Original Message- From: John Barnes

Re: [PSES] EN 61000-4-5

2012-08-02 Thread McInturff, Gary
Purple text Gary From: Fred Townsend [mailto:ftowns...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 3:09 PM To: 'Derek Walton'; j...@randolph-telecom.com; McInturff, Gary; jrbar...@iglou.com; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: RE: [PSES] EN 61000-4-5 Thanks for the replay Derek. Please see

Re: [PSES] EU sets EMC limits for London Olympics

2012-08-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
Interesting I thought this was an old wives tale. So let me ask one more question then. I had heard all of this along with the case in which the user could be sanctioned somehow if their TV was in fact causing a problem, maybe incorrect installation or something. Again I thought this was just

Re: [PSES] EU sets EMC limits for London Olympics

2012-08-08 Thread McInturff, Gary
Okay so I’m really old at it wasn’t a phone call but I did learn that Nikita Khrushchev died while trying to identify what obviously turned out to be an ambient during an emission test. I still don’t know the exact source (I’m in the us, but back then nobody else heard about it for about 8

[PSES] NOM approval for ITE equipment

2012-08-08 Thread McInturff, Gary
I see that NOM requires in country testing - I assume that means that a CB report isn't sufficient, is that correct? Do they require EMC in country as well? Is this rationally done with using a second party certifier such as UL, interteck, ETL and the whole raft of certifiers. It's a small

Re: [PSES] another cell phone battery

2012-08-28 Thread McInturff, Gary
Shorting batteries will sitting in your shorts? Gary -Original Message- From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:37 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] another cell phone battery In message

Re: [PSES] Buzzer loudness standard?

2012-09-04 Thread McInturff, Gary
Doug, doesn't OSHA have different levels for different environments - machinery rooms where they have to have ear protection can go up to 90, but offices would certainly be less than that. I think a quiet office is around 55 dBA Gary From: Doug Nix [mailto:d...@mac.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [PSES] Buzzer loudness standard?

2012-09-04 Thread McInturff, Gary
...@mac.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 2:19 PM To: McInturff, Gary Cc: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Buzzer loudness standard? Gary, No. ...3dB above the maximum OSHA 8 hour day background limit @ 3 meters... See the table in 1910.95. These are the absolute limits. Other

Re: [PSES] RoHS Question

2012-09-06 Thread McInturff, Gary
I followed the link. Q1.2 says Q1.s What is the difference between Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS1) and Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS2)? There are key differences between RoHS 1 and RoHS 2 in the following areas: 1. Scope A gradual extension of the requirements to all electrical and electronic

[PSES] DVI-D drivers and displays

2012-09-19 Thread McInturff, Gary
Does anyone else have as much trouble with these monitors as I seem to have. One could almost cook popcorn on top of some of the monitors we have for the lab - makes trying to measure the stuff we are generating difficult and annoys all to heck. Using a computer with an expansion bus card

Re: [PSES] Test Fixture for Self

2012-09-20 Thread McInturff, Gary
Every design and manufacturing facility has not just a single test fixture but several hundreds of them as they design, build, and produce the product. Every development chassis sitting in engineering labs or desks are test fixtures, every PCB that is plugged into a backplane for trouble

[PSES] thermal resistance - K versus C

2012-10-09 Thread McInturff, Gary
Thought I knew what I was doing, obviously I don't I have a device with a thermal resistance ThetaJA (J-P in this documentation). It's for SMT CHIP LED the specified value is 400C/W. for a plastic package that seems about right. I am looking at another LED but it lists ThetaJA as 400K/W.

[PSES] really low priority on this message - early test facility

2012-10-17 Thread McInturff, Gary
Now you've done it Bill - I've heard some pretty interesting stories about the first test sites. In my case we were class A verification and while we needed to test we could do it ourselves. Companies never have a dime for stuff they don't want to do - usually eaten up by the annual sales

Re: [PSES] OATS vs FAR Radiated Emissions Limits

2012-10-17 Thread McInturff, Gary
The method of propagation of those limits and tests was interesting. I got a call from a collegue at another company that asked if I knew anything about this new label the FCC wanted to put on computers. It was the basic warning label. I was just doing Safety compliance (compliance being the

Re: [PSES] Enamel layer of windings in primary of mains transformer or AC motor

2012-10-22 Thread McInturff, Gary
I believe that is correct Gary From: Ted Eckert [mailto:ted.eck...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:13 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Enamel layer of windings in primary of mains transformer or AC motor Hello Scott, Others will correct me if I am wrong,

[PSES] Gaming equipment Slot machines - Standard?

2012-10-23 Thread McInturff, Gary
I think UL 22 covers it in the US but does anybody have a clue for EU? Thanks Gary McInturff Reliability/Compliance Engineer Esterline Interface Technologies Featuring ADVANCED INPUT, MEMTRON, and LRE MEDICAL products 600 W. Wilbur Avenue Coeur d'Alene, ID 83815-9496

Re: [PSES] Gaming equipment Slot machines - Standard?

2012-10-23 Thread McInturff, Gary
: McInturff, Gary [mailto:gary.mcintu...@esterline.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:01 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORGmailto:EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] Gaming equipment Slot machines - Standard? I think UL 22 covers it in the US but does anybody have a clue for EU? Thanks Gary

Re: [PSES] Gaming equipment Slot machines - Standard?

2012-10-24 Thread McInturff, Gary
-expert people in shops, offices and the like. John C From: McInturff, Gary [mailto:gary.mcintu...@esterline.com] Sent: 23 October 2012 19:11 To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Gaming equipment Slot machines - Standard? Thanks all. Consensus

Re: [PSES] Possible Counterfeit EMC Components?

2012-10-31 Thread McInturff, Gary
Morning Ed, John has it correct. A company that produces thousands or even hundreds of thousands generally scales up its builds and inventory of parts as the design matures, but nothing can go to production release unless the company is sure that the design meets its goals. You wouldn't want to

[PSES] Chinese Medical Standard and EMC symposium for 2013

2012-10-31 Thread McInturff, Gary
1) Are there any major differences between China's GB 9706.1-2007 Medical electrical equipment - part 1 General requirements for safety and the base IEC document on which it is based? The customer ran a 3,000 volt Dielectric withstand test on a 5 volt hand held secondary device. It failed

Re: [PSES] Testing EUT

2012-10-31 Thread McInturff, Gary
I would use Exercise if I guess correctly at your intent, but I'm fairly certain my British friends will point out that Americans don't speak English. :) Gary From: ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen [mailto:g.grem...@cetest.nl] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:02 PM To:

Re: [PSES] Possible Counterfeit EMC Components?

2012-10-31 Thread McInturff, Gary
Brian, Word of caution and you probably understand this - watch the routing of the wires for the power supply. If the DC output are routed next the AC input inside the box you will have completely bypassed the power supplies filtering and inject output noise into the input lines. Happens all

Re: [PSES] Possible Counterfeit EMC Components?

2012-10-31 Thread McInturff, Gary
- it is their reputation and their baby. Brian -Original Message- From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org]On Behalf Of McInturff, Gary Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:47 AM To: 'John Woodgate'; 'EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG' Subject: RE: [PSES] Possible Counterfeit EMC Components? Morning Ed

Re: [PSES] Listing or Classification in the field?

2012-11-01 Thread McInturff, Gary
CLASSIFICATION SERVICE - A service whereby UL determines that a manufacturer has demonstrated the ability to produce a product that complies with UL requirements for the purpose of classification or evaluation with respect to one or more of the following: (1) specific risks only, e.g.,

Re: [PSES] Are Product Safety Certifications Mandatory in Canada?

2012-11-01 Thread McInturff, Gary
Hydro - inspections I believe they are called. It's been awhile, but commercial businesses etc were awfully careful about making certain there were certifications marks on equipment before they were turned on. I had to make a few trips into Canada for trade shows on equipment that had complete

[PSES] Manufactures Icon - Does CE Marking cite a requirement for the mark

2012-11-15 Thread McInturff, Gary
I have been unable to find it - can someone give me a pointer to the requirement please? Gary McInturff Reliability/Compliance Engineer Esterline Interface Technologies Featuring ADVANCED INPUT, MEMTRON, and LRE MEDICAL products 600 W. Wilbur Avenue Coeur d'Alene, ID 83815-9496

Re: [PSES] Manufactures Icon - Does CE Marking cite a requirement for the mark

2012-11-15 Thread McInturff, Gary
for? Regards, Ted Eckert Compliance Engineer Microsoft Corporation ted.eck...@microsoft.commailto:ted.eck...@microsoft.com The opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. From: McInturff, Gary [mailto:gary.mcintu...@esterline.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15

Re: [PSES] EU-DoC - list of applied standards with full title

2012-11-19 Thread McInturff, Gary
I'm also just curious what countries don't use Arabic numerals? I would have been able to understand what standard was in play from what you sent below if you had sent it in Dutch, or Spanish. Group and class Groep 1, klasse A and Grupo 1, clase A, took about 30 seconds to actually translate

Re: [PSES] Empty electrical enclosures in Europe

2012-12-03 Thread McInturff, Gary
NEMA is good for the US, but in Europe they use the IPXX system where the first x describes particle tests (sand and bugs) the second X is for water integrity and can be found in 60529 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP code) NEMA and IPXX are similar but not the same. Gary

Re: [PSES] The Cost of Safety

2012-12-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
The counter example, maybe. Is a monitor we built some years ago was at the start of a fire. Evaluation quickly showed that the monitor was not the source but rather a bank teller full of Christmas spirit had lit a candle next to the monitor and didn't blow it out before going home. Somewhere

[PSES] Sanity check - Korea please

2012-12-12 Thread McInturff, Gary
I have a customer with a EMC test about 14 years old now - and it was done to US and EU requirements 55022 55024 etc. They now have a requirement for Korea and are insisting that Korean approval can be gained without a Korean acceptance of the test - which requires documented evidence that the

Re: [PSES] Proving UN38.3 certification of common batteries.

2012-12-20 Thread McInturff, Gary
Jody, just for clarification. Doesn't UN38.3 require independent testing and approval. I haven't done it directly simply watched a vendor go through the process - we were in need of a custom Li battery pack and I believe they had to send it to a lab other than their own for the tests. Gary

Re: [PSES] LED Chamber Lighting

2013-02-04 Thread McInturff, Gary
Brian from a cheapy standpoint - we only leave the lights on when troubleshooting in the room and then I'm looking at some pretty specific stuff. I know our lights have noise but I know what it looks like. When I'm doing any sort of overall product measurement I simply turn off the lights and

[PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20

2013-03-06 Thread McInturff, Gary
Ladies and germs I was confirming this set-up and found something confusing. The picture shows the cable which is used to remove charge from the EUT between successive ESD discharges and having 2 470k Ohm resistors, the same basic setup as between HCP and ground plane or VCP and ground plane.

Re: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20

2013-03-06 Thread McInturff, Gary
...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:44 PM To: McInturff, Gary; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: RE: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20 Interesting. I have done the testing with the bleeder cable as described connected in parallel

Re: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20

2013-03-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
Technical Services LLC Woodland Park, CO k...@emc-seminars.commailto:k...@emc-seminars.com www.emc-seminars.comhttp://www.emc-seminars.com (Sent from my iPad) On Mar 6, 2013, at 5:48 PM, McInturff, Gary gary.mcintu...@esterline.commailto:gary.mcintu...@esterline.com wrote: The problem is I don’t

Re: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20

2013-03-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
change I’m unaware of. Thanks Gary From: ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen [mailto:g.grem...@cetest.nl] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:23 AM To: McInturff, Gary; Ken Wyatt Cc: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: RE: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC

Re: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20

2013-03-07 Thread McInturff, Gary
John. I think I answered this globally so I'll just do it locally for the moment. My humidity was a little on the low side, about 28% and theirs was closer to 38% or so. I would anticipate that might results would be the most harsh, but I am watching that as well. I was working in a Japanese

Re: [PSES] test setup for table top ungrounded equipment 61000-4-2 IEC:2008 figure 6 page 20

2013-03-08 Thread McInturff, Gary
d250d01e39356a4e9cc3b4b459d6655094db3...@ms-cda-01.advanced-input.commailto:d250d01e39356a4e9cc3b4b459d6655094db3...@ms-cda-01.advanced-input.com, dated Thu, 7 Mar 2013, McInturff, Gary gary.mcintu...@esterline.commailto:gary.mcintu...@esterline.com writes: My humidity was a little on the low side, about 28

Re: [PSES] Critical component in EMC report

2013-03-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
It's really easy Ed - just look at the report and if it says critical then it's a critical component. :) A power line filter would be an example of a critical component, a ferrite bead, or even a cap and resistor filter on a data line. I haven't seen this type of requirement in a long time -

Re: [PSES] Critical component in EMC report

2013-03-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
Ha! Your last paragraph mimics when I identify problems. Gary -Original Message- From: Brian Oconnell [mailto:oconne...@tamuracorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:36 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Critical component in EMC report Critical component - a

Re: [PSES] Critical component in EMC report

2013-03-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
Nor should the safety implication be addressed in the EMC report. They are controlled by the safety evaluation itself and subject to re-evaluation as those parts change. I have been to numerous and well qualified test facilities around the country and have yet to find one that is really good at

Re: [PSES] Critical component in EMC report

2013-03-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
As others have posted I think goes way back to the time when you had to hire a VDE engineer to come over the US about every 6 months and then witness the test for themselves. A whole slew of things have changed since then, include harmonization of the emissions limits international agreement to

Re: [PSES] Critical component in EMC report

2013-03-13 Thread McInturff, Gary
Having paid the bills on these for years I can tell you that the safety side the other side of the pond has never really inspected to a list safety of components (they would charge you based on the number of components they chose to control) but they never did a product inspection to see if

[PSES] Medical Safety consultant in Seattle area.

2013-03-26 Thread McInturff, Gary
Startup needs a little help in working with multiple input circuits for their non patient contact equipment. Medical laboratory is probably more the point of the equipment. They have been through development cycles a time or two, but are now looking at the need to switch between 120/240 for

Re: [PSES] 60950-1 durability test solvent

2013-03-26 Thread McInturff, Gary
Interesting N-hexane is also the gas they inject into test chambers to see if there is an explosion in the presence of a spark. Mil-810F section 511.4-2 paragraph 2.1 Unless otherwise specific, use n-hexane, either reagent grade or 95% n-hexane with 5% hexane isomers. Given that the test

Re: [PSES] 60950-1 durability test solvent

2013-03-26 Thread McInturff, Gary
Rich, You are correct they will accept a recognize marking system without test - but it doesn't matter, if they are preparing a CB report for Europe they are required to test the label. Gary -Original Message- From: Richard Nute [mailto:ri...@ieee.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013

[PSES] so what does a DoC look like for a subassembly that isn't usable on its own?

2013-04-02 Thread McInturff, Gary
Does one just state there are no requirements at this level on the DoC, do they reference the appropriate directives for safety and EMC for the final product. We custom design bits and pieces for end customers in EU, and we keep dancing around this issue both for ITE and medical devices. It

Re: [PSES] so what does a DoC look like for a subassembly that isn't usable on its own?

2013-04-02 Thread McInturff, Gary
@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] so what does a DoC look like for a subassembly that isn't usable on its own? In message d250d01e39356a4e9cc3b4b459d6655094dc1...@ms-cda-01.advanced-input.com, dated Tue, 2 Apr 2013, McInturff, Gary gary.mcintu...@esterline.com writes: Does one just state

Re: [PSES] so what does a DoC look like for a subassembly that isn't usable on its own?

2013-04-03 Thread McInturff, Gary
Thanks all who responded. I have a better idea in mind of how to proceed. There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't

Re: [PSES] 3D passive glasses

2013-04-17 Thread McInturff, Gary
Sounds logical - but good lord a kid finds dog poo appealing so that's kind of a broad category Gary -Original Message- From: Tyra, John [mailto:john_t...@bose.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:58 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] 3D passive glasses Found this

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