<3b3291d0.7f162...@intetron.com>, Dan Kwok <dk...@intetron.com>
inimitably wrote:
>So far, harmonised EMC standards seem to be "product centric". But, when
>multiple products (boxes) are configured into a system, EMC issues can
>still arise. In some cases, EMC problems can result not from the design
>of any one individual box, but the the overall interconnection of
>multiple boxes together. A good example of that is the ground loop.

You are correct, and in Europe this is because the EMC Directive is
product-centric, to its, and industry's, disadvantage. An attempt has
been made to address this in the revised Directive, but it is a weak
attempt. Nevertheless, control of EMC at product level is, in many
cases, the only practicable method.

The EMC aspects of interconnections are under study, however, not
entirely neglected. The Audio Engineering Society has a standards
working group, SC-05-05, working on the subject.
-- 
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Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically-
applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and 
excavating implement a SPADE?

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