Any restriction in Europe over the band of 90KHz to 250KHz?

2008-09-26 Thread Robert Macy
Intentional radiator that is narrow band but rather energetic. Is there any frequency I can set this transmitter at in this low frequency range and not accidentally step on a restriction. Vaguely remember some military bands down there that forbid *any* transmitters down there, but can't find

Information on operation in the 6.78 MHz ISM Band

2008-09-23 Thread Robert Macy
Does anyone have experience in this band? Or, have URLs to find limits and required characteristics to operate in this band? Robert - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list.Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the

Re: Germanium ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread robert Macy
Andrew, My firm has the technology to make optically transparent magnetic shield. Optical transparency is better than 65%. Costs relate to the requirement of how much field of view reduction of field Please contact me directly, off the group. - Robert - Robert

Re: Difference between the HP 8566A and the HP 8566B

2003-11-25 Thread robert Macy
Alas, all my vintage reference books are in storage. As I recall, B refers to lower frequency capability and/or finer BW resolution, like from 30Hz BW down to 10Hz BW Simply has extended lower ranges. - Robert - On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:38:30 -0800 Pettit, Ghery

Re: RFID tags

2003-11-20 Thread robert Macy
My vote.. Passive means to modify the field, this includes harmonic content. Active means use the field to generate new frequencies, as though a battery were attached. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PE .. m...@california.com 408 286 3985 . . . .. . . fx 408

Re: Leakage at Enclosure Seams

2003-11-17 Thread robert Macy
From vague memory... there was some work done by Don White (?) that shows tables of this type of improvement. Full of practical data and information. - Robert - On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:21:54 - Jeff Chambers j.chamb...@ndirect.co.uk wrote: I have been asked to comment on

Re: System test PCs - Are we cops?

2003-11-16 Thread robert Macy
Isn't it fraud to sell an item that does not meet spec? As in, the vendor says the product is compliant when it is not. Don't all the customers then have a legal recourse to return any/all product? Doesn't policing the policy of compliance then become a non-governmental function? As far

Re: Effective length of half wave dipole

2003-10-29 Thread robert Macy
From Dave Cuthbert's comments to me regarding a 1/4 wavelength dipole; he said that the current moves down the rod as the rod becomes thicker, which implies that the current distribution absolutely determines the effective length. Was that effective length or tuned length? hmm However, the

Re: Help finding Company

2003-10-14 Thread robert Macy
David, Just did a search in Rich's Northern California Directory for both air and modem which showed many companies, but no results. Also searched through Reference USA for *any* firm with modem in their name, again many companies, but no results. If a company has been around for a while and

Re: Corrosion tests - NEBS or Milspec acceleration factors?

2003-10-13 Thread robert Macy
Message - From: robert Macy To: GARY MCINTURFF ; emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Corrosion tests - NEBS or Milspec acceleration factors? Gary, From experience with security systems only close to the seashore (approx 2 miles away

Re: Corrosion tests - NEBS or Milspec acceleration factors?

2003-10-10 Thread robert Macy
Gary, From experience with security systems only close to the seashore (approx 2 miles away) it is best to *NEVER* have any of the metal parts under stress/tension, else the corrosion rates are incredibly accelerated. The particular stainless steel part had been tested real time in worse

PSpice model for 1/4 wavelength antenna

2003-10-08 Thread robert Macy
Does someone out there have a PSpice model for a 1/4 wavelength antenna? 433.92MHz Something that I can change to reflect diameter of the rod, detuning, etc. Or, do you know someone who has such a model? Need it fast, please. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PE ..

Re: GFI Question

2003-09-11 Thread robert Macy
Scott, How much wire is buried in the wall between the GFI and the outlet that doesn't cause the problem? Does the addition of an extension cord between the present outlet and the shredder calm it down? Do you have metal conduit? If so, you have a small filter through your AC mains to the

Re: Conformal Coatings

2003-09-03 Thread robert Macy
Michael, Back when I used to design coin operated games we had a problem with intentional ESD doing damage to the electronics. Turns out, that ESD would, every now and then, give a free game. Being rewarded with free games, they quickly learned a damaging ritual - the kids would link arms,

Re: ESD from wiring

2003-08-31 Thread robert Macy
Sounds like you just described the triboelectric(sp?) effect and teflon insulation has one of the highest electron work functions you will find. Mechanical motion causes a separation of the insulation from and along the conductor. That mechanical separation causes a GUARRANTEED charge

Re: 94V-0 question

2003-08-12 Thread robert Macy
Kapton comes to mind. - Robert - On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:55:25 -0600 drcuthb...@micron.com wrote: I need a sheet of plastic that goes between a PCB and a metal enclosure. This is to make a creepage spec. What plastics are good for this? Will polycarbonate be suitable and have a

Re: Thanks to EMC-PSTC List!!

2003-08-11 Thread robert Macy
Muriel, Congratulations! Is your thesis in English? If so, is there a location to make it available for download? I'm sure many would be interested in it. - Robert - On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:19:58 -0300 Muriel Bittencourt de Liz mur...@eel.ufsc.br wrote: Hello

Re: Clayton Pauls - Intro to EMC - an error or two? for those that have the text

2003-08-08 Thread robert Macy
Simple eqn to remember (2 skin depth = sqrt ( -- ) ( w * u * sigma w is radians per sec; or 2 pi f, with f in Hz u is permeability . or . u rel * u free space u free space is 4 pi 10-7 sigma is conductivity in S/m all MKS units so

Re: Carton box dimension and gross weight to EU

2003-07-29 Thread robert Macy
Paul, Forgot to mention, one company years ago added their own maximum width dimension of less than 30 inches so the boxes could be put on a two wheel truck and easily wheeled through a standard door! - Robert - On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:41:54 +0800 Paul Chan ncc...@tuvps.com.hk

Re: Carton box dimension and gross weight to EU

2003-07-29 Thread robert Macy
Paul, Sample shippers: http://www.ups.com At UPS website could not find any numbers, only definitions. http://www.fedex.com At the FedEx website could not find any weight restrictions, but did find Maximum length plus girth* per piece is 300 inches . where *Girth = 2(Width + Height)

Re: self blinking LEDs as EMI sources WAS: LED lamps

2003-07-27 Thread robert Macy
Interesting observation. You said hum gets louder. Implying hum is already there. What kind of phone? Is it only that one telephone instrument? Only occurs when LEDs are near the instrument, not near the phone lines with the phone in another location? Is the effect more pronounced at

Re: MRI-safe test lab

2003-07-21 Thread robert Macy
In case you have difficulty finding a strong enough field, there is a company in St. Louis that makes a medical device that creates 3D fields strong enough to rip a piece of metal around inside the brain under computer control for Parkinson surgery. Their fields are in excess of 1 to 3 tesla,

Re: Instrument Controller Software

2003-07-08 Thread robert Macy
John, If you buy a GPIB card for your laptop *and* your analyzer has the GPIB interface *and* you get your analyzer's software manual, you can learn and write all the software you need for your project in less than 2 hours. Ok, ok, more like 6 hours, but still -

Re: Source of noise

2003-07-02 Thread robert Macy
Derek, Most of the PS manufacturers I've dealt with use passive dummy loads or quiet active loads. These very handy quiet active loads provide programmable loading, BUT IN NO WAY SIMULATE THE SUPPLY'S ACTUAL USE. In other words, how many quiet loads do you power? Almost every load is a micro

Re: Crest Factor

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Macy
I use 3, with 10 as worst case. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 101 E San Fernando, Suite 402 San Jose, CA 95112 -

Re: Graphing Software

2003-05-16 Thread robert Macy
Doesn't Excel work for this? If not, I use a simple one called Grafdemo.exe which is best for plots up to 150 data points *and* has curve fitting SW for smooth displays and approx formulas. Or, Computer Calculus 4.0 CC4 which plots 2D and surface plots CC4 has good presentation of 2D

Re: ESD gun verification

2003-05-09 Thread robert Macy
Most spectrum analyzers don't do very well with a single event. The repetitive waveform needs to be there to be operated upon. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International

Re: FCC Limits

2003-04-29 Thread robert Macy
Interference from an adjacent/inband radiating source is likely to cause the receiver's AGC circuitry to limit the incoming RF signal to the point where the signal you're trying to receive gets buried in the system's noise. Or, the interfering signal is of sufficient magnitude so as to simply

Re: Low signal switching

2003-04-22 Thread robert Macy
Don, It is my understanding that physical switch contacts are cleaned with current - and use. It is probably ok at the lower signal levels since from time to time you're running the higher levels through the switches. Is there someway you can switch and then verify contact?

Re: high immunity

2003-03-31 Thread robert Macy
If GW, wouldn't that voltage be more like 600KV/m, or at least 30KV/m? - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 101 E San Fernando, Suite 402 San Jose,

Re: Help wanted with succinct subject description for non-special ists

2003-03-27 Thread robert Macy
To me, all this regulation can be synopsized: Electronics shall not put out stuff - conducted or radiated Electronics shall not be upset when stuff comes in - susceptibility to conducted or radiated. Difference in attitude between US and elsewhere: It is my understanding that in the US

Re: HP 6034L Power supply schematics / repair (was Agilent 6842A)

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Macy
Being a past employee of HP and having met David Packard and Bill Hewlett (just as the HP-35 calculator was coming out), it was with great sadness I watched as the management team headed by Carly F effectively dismantled everything they had built and stood for despite and in front of Bill's son.

Re: CALIBRATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF HELMHOLTZ COILS

2003-01-23 Thread Robert Macy
Ian, Contact me off line and I will share with you the SW tools (free on the internet) that I use to do these calculations. The first is an antiquated tool that runs on DOS called Computer Calculus 4.0, or CC4 I like it because it's powerful but easy to learn and retain. The second is a 2D

Re: Measuring AC Line Impedance

2002-10-30 Thread Robert Macy
Do you have the liberty to share your report - or details and results with the group? - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 101 E San Fernando,

Need services of Professional (PE) Mechanical Engineer registered in California

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Macy
Dear group, A fabricator of shell and tube heat exchangers located in Stafford, Texas has a requirement for a California PE to perform a structural design check on supports on two vessels that will be erected at the Shell Oil Plant in Martinez, California. Could you recommend a California PE?

Re: Need Drivers Programming Guide for HP8592B

2002-08-13 Thread Robert Macy
Andy, About 4 years ago I bought a book called something like Programming Guide for the ... from HP which cost around $20. Not sure if it was for this model or not, but watch out. Their system had the wrong part number and I got some unrelated book and it took another 10 days to get the right

Re: Need copies of specs addressing ISM bands in Europe

2002-08-12 Thread Robert Macy
...@verifone.com To: 'Robert Macy' m...@california.com; emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: RE: Need copies of specs addressing ISM bands in Europe Try the following URL. http://www.ero.dk/ Technical Staff Senior EMC Engineer William Morse NCE Phone 916.630.2540

Need copies of specs addressing ISM bands in Europe

2002-08-12 Thread Robert Macy
Apologize if duplication of question here. Is there a website to get a copy of the European Community's rules regarding ISM bands similar to FCC Part 15.245-9? - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297

Re: NEBS compliance for 100baseT / 1000base T

2002-07-23 Thread Robert Macy
The people who supply these inbedded filter connectors, Regal Electronics, can answer this and more. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619

Re: case of units

2002-06-24 Thread Robert Macy
Still use KHz For me it's a logical carrier over from small letter = small value capital letter = large value mOhm means milli Ohm NOT mega Ohm mHz is milliHertz KHz is kilo Hertz (note magnifier is larger than one) MHz is megaHertz and so on

Re: Lightning Protection for PA System

2002-06-19 Thread Robert Macy
Scott, Not knowing how your system is exactly built makes it difficult to second guess the lightning. However, here is one way to protect your amplifiers: Move the protection interface out to the edge of your building. Use rod located there with all referenced to ground. At this same

Re: Side Issue: Proximity Cards in Wallets ...

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Macy
No - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 -Original Message- From: Doug McKean

Re: ferrite transient voltage/current response

2002-06-06 Thread Robert Macy
Then why would a 10 A surge change their characteristics? Unless it cracks it? - Robert - -Original Message- From: Robert Wilson robert_wil...@tirsys.com To: Robert Macy m...@california.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org List-Post: emc-pstc

Re: ferrite transient voltage/current response

2002-06-06 Thread Robert Macy
He may have magnetized it. Degaussing with one of those Radio Shack thingies would probably brought it back. Can he try it again? - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International

Re: Constant for Change of Resistance formula.

2002-05-14 Thread Robert Macy
. - Robert - -Original Message- From: Bill Ellingford bill.ellingf...@motion-media.com To: 'Robert Macy' m...@global.california.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: RE

Re: Constant for Change of Resistance formula.

2002-05-13 Thread Robert Macy
408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 -Original Message- From: Bill Ellingford bill.ellingf...@motion-media.com To: 'Robert Macy' m...@global.california.com; emc-p

Re: Constant for Change of Resistance formula.

2002-05-13 Thread Robert Macy
Bill, Thanks for the site. Went there and found the same formula and constant I use. For copper, Temp Coeff = 3.9 x 10-3 Then I clicked on table of coeff and there was a very long list of materials, but the temp coeff of copper there was 6.8 x 10-3 ???!!! Any ideas for this disparity?

Re: Constant for Change of Resistance formula.

2002-05-10 Thread Robert Macy
Ned, Not familiar with this K term. For straight resitance changes in transformers, we always used 0.0039 per C. Does K somehow include contact resistance, not just bulk resistance? This is definitely the time to measure it. Environmental chamber at -50, 0, 50, 100, and 150. Make your own

Re: ESD

2002-04-23 Thread Robert Macy
Slight adjustments Part I http://www.pcdmag.com/mag/archives/OEG20010928S0122.html Part II http://www.pcdmag.com/online/redux_0701_esd.html - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM

Re: Marking - Made in XXX

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Macy
Amund, I believe it's a law in the US that all products be labeled with their country of origin. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants

Re: Decoupling - capacitor values

2002-04-18 Thread Robert Macy
Years ago in ultrasonic echocardiography instrumentation (the ultrasonics analog is a wide band receiver listening in the 1-10MHz region down to less than 10uV, so the digital had better be quiet!) which used a bit slice architecture system containing Schottky logic with a clock of 20MHz for

Re: Faying

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Macy
Ed, Thank you. Especially the part blaming Woodgate. My grandfather's name was Fay (son of Irish immigrant) and I always wondered at the origin of that name. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121

Re: Relative merits of various logic families in not generating RFI

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Macy
horror would be examples of the gotchas I was looking for. - Robert - -Original Message- From: peter.pou...@invensys.com peter.pou...@invensys.com To: Robert Macy m...@california.com List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: Re

Relative merits of various logic families in not generating RFI

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Macy
Group, What are the relative merits of the various logic families HCT, HC, AC, ACT with regard to generating RFI? I remember one time we replaced an HCT which made more noise than Schottky TTL due to an internal overlap in the switching causing a power rail shorting spike. I'm sure by now that

Re: creepage v breakdown voltage

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Macy
Doing high voltage power supplies we found we always got in trouble using 20,000 V/in and things worked well when we kept below 10,000 V/in. Metric that's 790 V/mm and 390 V/mm This was free air and not some kind of pointy structure. - Robert - Robert A. Macy,

Re: Don'r Get Caught Running a Red Traffic Light!

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Macy
Did you take a look at the people who make traffic light controllers? , and the magnetic sensor people? If you can't find something, I'll see what's in archives around here. Know nothing related to your needs, just some of the players' names. Also, you'd be amazed the information you can get

Re: CCFL light output

2002-02-27 Thread Robert Macy
Recommend you get a copy of Westinghouse Lighting Handbook In one table they show lumens output for various fluorescent lamps with current and volts input required. for the Preheated des.len curr. vol. *pwr lumens *lumens/watt 4W 6 0.132 32 4.32 115

Re: Use of PCB Traces as Fuse and Voltage suppressor

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Macy
Jim, You touch on an important issue concerning a fuse - just how does it blow? Years ago I discovered by accident that fuses were designed with some remarkable properties, when we had to make our own transient generator to verify some telcom equipment's compliance to a BABT power supply

Re: Need Help on Inner PCB plane for RF shielding in isolated circuit

2002-02-21 Thread Robert Macy
Chris, Using a PCB layer as an RF shield. Don't forget you probably have that PCB layer cut into swiss cheese with vias, unless you used blind vias. Background: A microstrip trace will radiate off the board a certain amount - makes sense since part of its

Re: Use of PCB Traces as Fuse and Voltage suppressor

2002-02-21 Thread Robert Macy
Our experience with gas discharge tubes was that they worked according to spec in the lab. fired perfectly around 400V like they're supposed to, but down inside of the PVC oil tank holding the 150KV isolation transformer they liked to fire at 600V+ Guess they needed photon energy to make the

Re: CM Choke simulation

2002-02-16 Thread Robert Macy
Derek, Yes, do it all the time. As long as you don't get into saturating any cores, you can pretty much use lumped models and none of the nonlinearities associated with core material. Don't forget to include your AC mains cable. It's a trifilar wound transformer. A Belden AC cord looks like

Re: Clean class B test bed

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Macy
Tony, When we had to test a 100MHz video two board system, weaknesses in grounding structures of the PC's became extremely evident. Two stood out as the best (best internal motherboard grounding) Gateway (best) and Dell (very close 2nd best). No other PC's yielded a compliant system. [ Even

Re: Teslars???

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Macy
That's Tesla, which is a weber per sq meter. It is a measure of the B field, flux per area. If you're English, 1 tesla is 10,000 gauss. I don't believe those numbers. We have light rail train go by here which is powered by 600Vac (I believe it's 600 Vac) I haven't seen the fields from the

Re: Safety Link Offers Classifed Ads to EMC-PSTC members (no-charge)

2002-02-05 Thread Robert Macy
Agree, worthwhile. All the newspaper articles in the Career section of the newspapers say that after being laid off to take off a few weeks, gain bearings, then look for your new position. I totally disagree. I say take 20 minutes, shake your head, and go for new places as agressively and

Re: Harmonics measurement instrumentation

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Macy
Hmmm...measured with a current meter, then measured with a wattmeter and got different answersHarmonics out of phase? contain no power? - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International

Re: radar

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Macy
I'm going to say British pass on the left because the jousting pole is usually held by right handers. Sailors pass on the right, yet don't know the origin of that. Maybe the sailing tradition started a propensity to pass on the right for colonists. Automobiles in the US are made so the driver

Re: Magnetic measurement per CISPR 15

2002-01-05 Thread Robert Macy
It is my understanding that the conversion factor converts the voltage reading on a 50 ohm receiver to the amperage reading directly. In other words, 1dbuV *is* 1dBuA and already takes into account the 50 ohm input impedance. Sadly, all this was written before advancements in electronics

Re: EMC-related safety issues

2002-01-03 Thread Robert Macy
Perhaps, it merely interfered with the sensor electronics, not the true magnetic field that was being sensed. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants

Re: EMC-related safety issues

2002-01-03 Thread Robert Macy
Great, Now we have to start adding information on the sales brochure, like As the purchaser of this product places this product into service said purchase is forming a licensed arrangement with the vendor to not hold said vendor culpable for all uses and potential misuses of this product

Fw: question on emc and networks

2001-12-31 Thread Robert Macy
I offered to forward this to the emc group for help. Please answer directly. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San Jose, CA

Re: Field Strength - Substitution Method

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Macy
Hear, hear. It may have been hand waving but I always assumed that test sites never correlated very well (although their calibration curves do) because the actual radiators one is measuring are strange and not well controlled impedances like an antenna. The sources can be low or high impedance

Re: Non-compliant product put into EU marked

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Macy
Wow! I've been telling clients that even a Beta test is allowed, as long as absolutely no revenue is derived from it. Can't sell it. Can't rent it. With no revenue, it is an exhibition, a test. Is this wrong? - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com

Re: noise figure

2001-12-26 Thread Robert Macy
NoiseFigure new = sqrt ( ( NF1^2 - 1 ) + ( NF2^2 - 1 ) + ( NF3^2 - 1 ) + ... + 1 ) where all noise figures are ratios and referenced to a single location. A few points: 1 Definition: Noise Figure is the ratio of increased noise in a system above the expected level of

Re: High Frequency Pre-amp

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Macy
Just a reminderalways make certain that no signal gets in to saturate, or even start to overdrive, your amplifier at frequencies you're not looking at. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121

Re: power supply to GOST 30429-96

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Macy
Low frequency conducted noise is usually generated by the periodic demand on the energy storage cap (greatly, greatly affected by esr). This noise is differential and no y-cap (unless it's so large it becomes a killer size, and then not really) will stomp on it. Your first problem (conducted

Re: RE:RJ45 filtered connector

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Macy
Did you see Regal Electronics? They make filtered RJ45 connectors If not, try Regal Electronics 408 988 2288 4251 Burton Dr Santa Clara, CA 95054 might have a website around www.regalusa.com A technical contact is Bill Kunz - Robert - Robert A.

Re: Power station equipment

2001-12-19 Thread Robert Macy
Nick, Contact this man, he has a lot of experience in the technical aspects of the power distribution business. Don Kelly d...@home.com - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM

Re: Sometimes product safety just isn't enough

2001-12-15 Thread Robert Macy
AR!! I went there, read down through much, before it soaked in. - Robert - -Original Message- From: Pettit, Ghery ghery.pet...@intel.com To: 'Robert Macy' m...@california.com; James Collum james.col...@usa.alcatel.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org emc-p

Re: Sometimes product safety just isn't enough

2001-12-15 Thread Robert Macy
In deference to the warning label on the peanuts bag. Some people have life threatening allergies to peanuts and take warnings such as that and warnings on cookies, etc very seriously. But then again, you'd think with the main label Peanuts would be sufficient. Perhaps, someone is making

Re: IATA

2001-12-04 Thread Robert Macy
It is also interesting that 2mG limit closely approximates the emotional one established through epidemiological studies. Here in the Bay Area the field is around 50uT( 500mG ) It is my understanding that the magnetic field has been steadily declining. From the time of Christ until now it has

Re: physics behind EMI powerline filter

2001-12-03 Thread Robert Macy
Muriel, Good thinking. The answer is, depends..Keep in mind that at 30MHz the 1/4 wavelength is still over 8 feet, so we're not really talking much about waveguides and volumetric resonators. Two areas to consider: First, at the low frequencies most of the energy is simply not used *and*

Re: [Fwd: User Warning Signal Words]

2001-11-08 Thread Robert Macy
Perhaps, it's time to utilize Alert instead of Warning for Class A compliance information. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619

Re: EMC test table construction plans

2001-11-02 Thread Robert Macy
John, Your point is well taken with regard to testing a unit while closely matching the testing environment to the environment it will be used in. However, we don't sell a lot of equipment to people who have 40 meters of ground plane, either. It is my understanding a reasonable false

Re: Request for Input - Third Party Request

2001-10-27 Thread Robert Macy
Don't know if anybody responded, or not. But first I would change your interface to include analog signals (I firmly believe in never blinding the computer to what's really going on) Second, the only IF temp meters I remember were made by Raychem, or such back in the 70's. But they at least

Re: 120V Ground Faults

2001-10-26 Thread Robert Macy
North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 -Original Message- From: michael.garret...@radisys.com michael.garret...@radisys.com To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Cc: Robert Macy m...@california.com List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:52

Re: skinny power cords.

2001-10-25 Thread Robert Macy
fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 -Original Message- From: Dan Kwok dk...@intetron.com To: Robert Macy m...@california.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org List-Post: emc-pstc

Re: skinny power cords.

2001-10-25 Thread Robert Macy
-Original Message- From: Robert Macy [mailto:m...@california.com] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:50 AM To: Roman, Dan; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: skinny power cords. Just have to jump in here with personal experience: In our bedroom we have a deLonghi radiator heater

Re: skinny power cords.

2001-10-25 Thread Robert Macy
No soldered connections. The arc was external to the plug between the blades. Carbonizing and then cutting more carbon in the burn track. Remember the arc was *between* the blades, there was no power going through the cord itself. - Robert - Robert A.

Re: skinny power cords.

2001-10-25 Thread Robert Macy
Just have to jump in here with personal experience: In our bedroom we have a deLonghi radiator heater which uses an extension cord (high cost UL approved) heavy guage #12 wire to power it - when it's used. This extension cord plugs into a multi outlet adapter, also heavy duty UL approved. At

Re: EFT Failures..Help!

2001-10-22 Thread Robert Macy
Hope you're using more than one sample. I've been bit by having the one I brought to the lab not being in compliance. Anyway, make certain. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM

Re: duty cycle correction factors

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Macy
20log(d) time is linear, like voltage not the square, like power, thus the 20log - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PEm...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San

Printable calendar for 2002 sent by request

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Macy
Ok, ok. For all those whose virus scanners spit up when seeing files with my mnemonic names - upon request I'll send to you an unzipped version (about 60K total) with every file renamed with the extension *.txt. For example, PRINT_02.BAT will be PRINT_02.BAT.TXT etc Then you can do with it

Re: Printable calendar for 2002

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Macy
I got two NAV (Norton Antivirus) msgs back from the ieee.org that said my attachment had a virus in it. If so, please let me know, because there is nothing but text files (that I know of) and a simple batch program in that attachment. Very important that *IF* I have a virus, need to know !!!

Printable calendar for 2002

2001-10-17 Thread Robert Macy
Apologize for being off topic, but I've attached a printable calendar for 2002. It prints out on 8 1/2 by 11 (for all the metric people) in landscape mode. Very little clutter and has big squares to write in. If you have a DeskJet 500, you can print directly to it. If not, use the text file

Fluid flow rate

2001-10-12 Thread Robert Macy
Sorry about this being so far off topic, but I don't know where else to find the largest group of technology professionals who can answer this question: How much water will flow out of a 3/4 inch pipe which is under 60 psi? There is a restriction and the actual inside ID is around 7/16 inch. My

Re: Active loop antenna overload

2001-09-24 Thread Robert Macy
Move the antenna further away. then use correction factors to calculate what it would have been at the original distance. Magnetic fields decrease as the inverse cube of the distance. So just apply a correction factor to boost the amplitude back up. For example, twice the distance away means

Need electrical characteristics of epidermis (skin)

2001-09-14 Thread Robert Macy
Sorry to post here but am running into a brick wall at trying to find out something as simple as the resistivity and dielectric constant for skin! Does anybody have a source? Need quick, please. - Robert - --- This message is

Re: Noise from flourescent light ballasts?

2001-09-06 Thread Robert Macy
Chris, Fluorescent tubes are noisy anyway, but the old passive ballasts are starting to be replaced with active electronic ballasts. Those electronic widgets actually run at frequencies down near what you're using. Electrically they can be EXTREMELY noisy. The US has no real restrictions. As

Re: 120V appliance on 240V supply

2001-05-14 Thread Robert Macy
They will deliver less powerabour 50/60 of what you expect. The power supplies in those ovens are quite inexpensive and use a single rectifying diode. When the voltage gets high enough, the microwave bursts on for a short time. Thus, if operated from 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz, the power will

Re: Zo

2001-02-01 Thread Robert Macy
Did you find out what you need? Somewhere around here I have the equations that closely approximate twisted pair for 26 Awg and 28 Awg wire from DC to 10MHz. They were derived from empirical modeling. You can make various approximations to simplify their use. That includes impedance, loss per

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