RE: FCC for PCs

2001-02-03 Thread Gary McInturff
-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: FCC for PCs I recall from my days of managing EMC that the FCC does not allow a manufacturer to declare if an ITE product is Class A or B. They look at the price, and where the product is advertised and sold as well. If the product is within the price range

Re: FCC for PCs

2001-02-02 Thread Andrew Carson
@interlock.lexmark.com cc:(bcc: George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark) Subject: RE: FCC for PCs You are right, they should be Class B unless they excusively specify that the PC is not for home use. You will need them to be Class B to start with and when you load them with custom option cards there is a high

RE: FCC for PCs

2001-02-02 Thread WOODS
Check page 8 for the FCC's A/B criteria in 1996. This may or may not be their current thinking. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet62/ oet62rev.pdf http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet62 /oet62rev.pdf Richard Woods

Re: FCC for PCs

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Kwok
for $400 each. Dan Kwok - Original Message - From: geor...@lexmark.com To: p...@tennyson.com.au Cc: wo...@sensormatic.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:37 AM Subject: RE: FCC for PCs I recall from my days of managing EMC that the FCC does not allow

RE: FCC for PCs

2001-02-02 Thread georgea
to prao%tennyson.com...@interlock.lexmark.com To: woods%sensormatic@interlock.lexmark.com, emc-pstc%majordomo.ieee@interlock.lexmark.com cc:(bcc: George Alspaugh/Lex/Lexmark) Subject: RE: FCC for PCs You are right, they should be Class B unless they excusively specify

RE: FCC for PCs

2001-02-02 Thread Praveen Rao
You are right, they should be Class B unless they excusively specify that the PC is not for home use. You will need them to be Class B to start with and when you load them with custom option cards there is a high chance that the EMI characteristics will worsen and you'll at least meet Class A.

Re: FCC for PCs

2001-02-01 Thread Dan Kwok
Richard, Your concern is quite legitimate. A PC is a device that can be easily brought into a residential home environment by anyone. Based on that, I would think it should have been tested to Class B limits. Dan Kwok wo...@sensormatic.com wrote: We are purchasing a PC loaded with custom