RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
[mailto:mkirin...@houston.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:55 AM To: lfresea...@aol.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? I guess now its my turn to put in my two cents. The major reason that you are having a hard time finding units that pass is that all

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Kirincic
...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:21 PM Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? In a message dated 3/28/03 10:05:02 AM Central Standard Time, rsto...@lucent.com writes: what do you do to the company that passes site A oats,then fails site B...go to site C?...best 2 out of 3? HI

Re: Lab integrity (was: RE: OK, what's going on?)

2003-03-31 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/27/2003 9:34:03 AM Central Standard Time, peter.tar...@sanmina-sci.com writes: While I can't speak for all OEM pc manufacturers or intend to contradict your personal experience My personal experience has only had me visit 2 OEM's Both were exceptional. You don't

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread Luke Turnbull
John Woodgate j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk 03/28/03 04:11pm If products that exceed a limit by 20 dB don't cause an unacceptable increased level of complaints, why retain the stringent limit: cui bono? Just a thought about this argument about complaints. Having worked in the EMC business for

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Kirincic
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:03 AM Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? There has been an enormous amount of feedback from Dereks email this week. Including mine. I am beginning to get the notion this is all brand new to most of the people here.. it isn't..going on for years... were

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/28/03 10:05:02 AM Central Standard Time, rsto...@lucent.com writes: what do you do to the company that passes site A oats,then fails site B...go to site C?...best 2 out of 3? HI Richard.. As an assessor, we have been taking great steps to get this problem down to

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Kirincic
their products passed with adequate margin. I will get off my soap box now. Mark J. Kirincic mkirin...@houston.rr.com - Original Message - From: lfresea...@aol.com To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:05 PM Subject: OK, what's going on? Hi all, This e-mail has

Lab integrity (was: RE: OK, what's going on?)

2003-03-31 Thread Peter L. Tarver
Earl - While I can't speak for all OEM pc manufacturers or intend to contradict your personal experience, without question, Sanmina-SCI's Calgary and San Jose facilities DO NOT hedge on EMC or in any other compliance discipline. We have an excellent 10 m indoor semianechoic chamber in San Jose,

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread John Allen
Doug Is the CuBe catalog available on the web as I would like to have a look at it? Thanks John Allen From: Doug Smith [mailto:d...@emcesd.com] Sent: 28 March 2003 04:51 To: George Stults Cc: Cortland Richmond; lfresea...@aol.com; ieee pstc list Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? Hi George

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-31 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Luke Turnbull luke.turnb...@trw.com wrote (in se87afb4.056@gwisegwc) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Mon, 31 Mar 2003: Half a year later I finally worked out that my cheap (CE marked) carphone charger was causing the problem. I was going to complain to trading standards

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Mark Kirincic
; 'Mark mailto:mkirin...@houston.rr.com Kirincic' ; Stone, Richard A (Richard) mailto:rsto...@lucent.com ; lfresea...@aol.com ; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? I have to add my 2 cents worth! This is getting out of hand

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Mark Kirincic
going on? I read in !emc-pstc that Mark Kirincic mkirin...@houston.rr.com wrote (in 098201c2f521$284e4820$6501a8c0@kristina2005) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Fri, 28 Mar 2003: By the way I do not work for a test house, I didn't imply that you did. I am just trying to clean up

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Chris Maxwell
Yes, wouldn't it be good. IMHO, it's slightly less feasible than a combined 3D photocopier and perpetual motion machine. Someday, they'll be invented too. Although I don't want to be the guy that has to test the perpetual motion machine :-) Chris Maxwell | Design Engineer - Optical Division

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Pryor McGinnis c...@prodigy.net wrote (in 20030328180822.63646.qm...@web80210.mail.yahoo.com) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Fri, 28 Mar 2003: Do you not understand that the original unit submitted for EMC Testing may have passed with flying colors, only

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Chris Maxwell chris.maxw...@nettest.com wrote (in 83d652574e7af740873674f9fc12dbaaf7e...@utexh1w2.gnnettest.com) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Fri, 28 Mar 2003: However, as engineers, we could find a way to make the spot checks cheaper and more repeatable. Sort

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Chris Maxwell
...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? What would NARTE say about certified EMC engineers and technicians signing off on equipment that does not make the grade? It would be great if everyone and every company handled the issue of EMC ethically. But since the world does not always work

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Pryor McGinnis
enforcement or does this serve only the EMC community? Dave Cuthbert Micron Technology From: Mark Kirincic [ mailto:mkirin...@houston.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:53 PM To: Stone, Richard A (Richard); lfresea...@aol.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? What would NARTE say about certified EMC engineers and technicians signing off on equipment that does not make the grade? It would be great if everyone and every company handled the issue of EMC ethically. But since the world does not always work this way...I

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Mark Kirincic mkirin...@houston.rr.com wrote (in 098201c2f521$284e4820$6501a8c0@kristina2005) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Fri, 28 Mar 2003: By the way I do not work for a test house, I didn't imply that you did. I am just trying to clean up and legitimize

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Charles Grasso cgrassospri...@earthlink.net wrote (in anemkfollplfimkkheookejicgaa.cgrassospri...@earthlink.net) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Fri, 28 Mar 2003: John - Agreed. But I would pose the question. If we can demonstrate that products are on the market place

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread drcuthbert
? Dave Cuthbert Micron Technology From: Mark Kirincic [mailto:mkirin...@houston.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:53 PM To: Stone, Richard A (Richard); lfresea...@aol.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? To further clarify my point, all the major

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Charles Grasso
...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of John Woodgate Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:02 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? I read in !emc-pstc that Mark Kirincic mkirin...@houston.rr.com wrote (in 091001c2f4dd$85c69910

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Mark Kirincic
mkirin...@houston.rr.com From: John Woodgate j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:02 AM Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? I read in !emc-pstc that Mark Kirincic mkirin...@houston.rr.com wrote (in 091001c2f4dd$85c69910$6501a8c0@kristina2005) about

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
for the worse...never better, Richard From: George Stults [mailto:george.stu...@watchguard.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:39 PM To: Cortland Richmond; lfresea...@aol.com; ieee pstc list Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? I suppose that vibration may be good to a point, but I offer the following

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Mark Kirincic mkirin...@houston.rr.com wrote (in 091001c2f4dd$85c69910$6501a8c0@kristina2005) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Thu, 27 Mar 2003: In my opinion, what really needs to be done is full accountability for failed products that the company by having the company

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Mark Kirincic
:34 AM Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? Mark mentioned reports, a paper trail...or is it? Vendors doing the EMC/EMI ?, who might a vendor be for say IBM or Dell? would think the mfr'r would have an associate there during testing like most of us do. Seems it would be easy to look at the report

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread Doug Smith
it George Stults WatchGuard Technologies Inc. -Original Message- From: Cortland Richmond [mailto:72146@compuserve.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:10 AM To: lfresea...@aol.com; ieee pstc list Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? Derek wrote: the EUT should have

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-28 Thread George Stults
[mailto:72146@compuserve.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:10 AM To: lfresea...@aol.com; ieee pstc list Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? Derek wrote: the EUT should have been exposed to simulated shipping and installation by a user... FWIW, in the 1980's I worked in an audit lab

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread Cortland Richmond
Derek wrote: the EUT should have been exposed to simulated shipping and installation by a user... FWIW, in the 1980's I worked in an audit lab where we tested samples of shipped equipment for FCC, vibration, heat, humidity, temperature, TEMPEST... it was not uncommon for equipment to do

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/27/2003 8:34:58 AM Central Standard Time, rsto...@lucent.com writes: Mark mentioned reports, a paper trail...or is it? Vendors doing the EMC/EMI ?, who might a vendor be for say IBM or Dell? would think the mfr'r would have an associate there during testing like most of

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Adrian F Davies davies...@virgin.net wrote (in dbegllgahbjcdoanbfjbgegccdaa.davies...@virgin.net) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Thu, 27 Mar 2003: this is not quite the case in the UK. EMC issues are policed by local Trading Standards Officers. There have been several

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Garnier, David S (MED) david.garn...@med.ge.com wrote (in D4DBD8568F05D511A1C20002A55C008CA2 d...@uswaumsx03medge.med.ge.com) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Wed, 26 Mar 2003: I discovered the our product's worst conducted emissions occured when our product was off

OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
Hi all, This e-mail has been prompted because of a number of things that have all come together. This may take a little reading, but please stick with it. Last note... this is not intended to pick on any individuals, or organization, but I do want to stir the pot. I operate an engineering lab,

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread Garnier, David S (MED)
From: Doug Smith [mailto:d...@emcesd.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:38 AM To: Grasso, Charles Cc: 'lfresea...@aol.com'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? Hi All, Just wanted to put my 2 cents worth in. The same thing may be happening in Mil-spec testing

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread Adrian F Davies
Good morning all, this is not quite the case in the UK. EMC issues are policed by local Trading Standards Officers. There have been several successful prosecutions in the South Wales area. Experience has shown that a CE marked CPU unit will be close to the limit. However, plug another CE

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread Morse, Earl (E.A.)
'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? Hi Derek - Go Reds!! This is not a surprise to me. I have railed at much length a couple of years ago as to the latest FCC changes to the emissions qualification. I am sure you are familiar with it so I won't belabour the point

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
, From: lfresea...@aol.com [mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:05 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: OK, what's going on? Hi all, This e-mail has been prompted because of a number of things that have all come together. This may take a little reading, but please stick

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/25/2003 4:11:56 PM Central Standard Time, drcuthb...@micron.com writes: most interesting data. I have two questions: What software are you exercising the PC's with and is the spread spectrum enabled? I assume you are using an RBW of 120 kHz and using Quasi-peak detection.

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-27 Thread Juhasz, John (IndSys, GE Interlogix)
Options Div. Bohemia, NY From: lfresea...@aol.com [mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:05 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: OK, what's going on? Hi all, This e-mail has been prompted because of a number of things that have all come together. This may take a little

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Doug Smith
Hi Earl and the gang, I may be atypical, but I have a shortwave radio in the same room (on the same desk with much of it) with 4 computers, a unix server, a print server, fax machine, large copy machine, and several printers, the hub equipment of a good sized ethernet network (for 8

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Morse, Earl (E.A.)
...@lucent.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:44 AM To: 'Morse, Earl (E.A.)'; 'Grasso, Charles'; 'lfresea...@aol.com'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? thats true Earl, good point on company B, not caring but selling with a higher profit, less EMC..company A busting butt

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Doug Smith
Hi Ken and the group, Thanks for the information. The common mode current was in the 100 MHz region and WAY over what would be enough to exceed just about any limits of radiation, and this was on the power cord (and therefore any other leads to some extent). Doug Ken Javor wrote: I have

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Stone, Richard A (Richard)
, Earl (E.A.) [mailto:emo...@ford.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:10 AM To: 'Grasso, Charles'; 'lfresea...@aol.com'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? Amen! I had 15 years of computer EMC when I left the PC sector this year. This was a never ending source

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Ken Javor
- From: lfresea...@aol.com [mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:05 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: OK, what's going on? Hi all, This e-mail has been prompted because of a number of things that have all come together. This may take a little reading

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Doug Smith
mailto:chasgra...@ieee.org -Original Message- From: lfresea...@aol.com [mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:05 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: OK, what's going on? Hi all, This e-mail has been prompted because

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/25/2003 8:49:04 PM Central Standard Time, cgrassospri...@earthlink.net writes: So the next obvious question is: Are the majority of the PC failures clones?? So far, from what I've seen... no. Derek.

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Cortland Richmond
What no one checks -- no one does. Got an OLD PC? One certified under the old rules, with an ID number? Try THAT. A local computer store (of a national chain) is selling computer chassis' with plastic sides. No complaints, no problems. It appears no one is CHECKING. Cortland This

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Charles Grasso
label?? From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of Ken Javor Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:19 PM To: lfresea...@aol.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going on? All, I would suggest a little literature survey

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-26 Thread Charles Grasso
So the next obvious question is: Are the majority of the PC failures clones?? From: lfresea...@aol.com [mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:32 PM To: cgrassospri...@earthlink.net; ken.ja...@emccompliance.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: OK, what's going

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-25 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/25/2003 8:28:40 PM Central Standard Time, cgrassospri...@earthlink.net writes: Question to Derek: Do the PCs have the infamous assembled from FCC compliant components label?? The clones do, the others do not. Little more news.. 2 laptops, an older Micron, 350 MHz,

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-25 Thread lfresea...@aol.com
In a message dated 3/25/2003 7:27:32 PM Central Standard Time, ken.ja...@emccompliance.com writes: What bands were the outages in? Sorry Ken... got to stop you here. When I assess, I do so to the standard. The FCC make the rules, we either comply or we don't. No need to second guess the

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-25 Thread Grasso, Charles
; mailto:charles.gra...@echostar.com; Email Alternate: chasgra...@ieee.org From: lfresea...@aol.com [mailto:lfresea...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:05 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: OK, what's going on? Hi all, This e-mail has been prompted because of a number of things

RE: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-25 Thread drcuthbert
frequencies are. Dave Cuthbert Micron Technology From: Stone, Richard A (Richard) [mailto:rsto...@lucent.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:30 PM To: 'lfresea...@aol.com'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: OK, what's going on? Derek, doesnt say whether you took the uncompliant

Re: OK, what's going on?

2003-03-25 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that lfresea...@aol.com wrote (in 70.2c4379f4.2bb21 0...@aol.com) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Tue, 25 Mar 2003: I have now spent about 60 man-hours looking for a PC that passes FCC Class B emissions. Something that I should just be able to go to the store and get