John, I have no argument with you on that point. A product that will not function in its intended environment is rather useless. However, as an anarchist Yank (well, that might be putting it a bit too strongly, but I do believe in limited government - a topic for some other forum), I feel that immunity is a product quality issue and is best left to a manufacturer as a customer satisfaction issue and should not be a regulatory matter. The regulators have a vested interest in protecting licensed users of the radio spectrum, so emissions limits are in order. Immunity requirements do not serve a similar function, so should be left to the customer and vendor. In the U.S. the only commercial immunity requirements are contained in the NEBS documents for telco equipment. A customer written and administered requirement that works quite well.
Ghery Pettit -----Original Message----- From: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:28 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: New EMC standards; now CISPR24/EN55024 query I read in !emc-pstc that Pettit, Ghery <ghery.pet...@intel.com> wrote (in <D9223EB959A5D511A98F00508B68C20C0226B526@ORSMSX108>) about 'New EMC standards; now CISPR24/EN55024 query', on Wed, 31 Oct 2001: >Even then, changes in CISPR >documents occur at glacial speed. This isn't always a bad thing, either. Things are changing, even in CISPR. And while deliberation may not always be a bad thing, a lack of immunity in an industrial computer must always be a bad thing, and very possibly a BAD THING! -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Eat mink and be dreary! ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
