When you consider the cost of reports I think the cost goes up from 
$4500.  Two of the labs I use, cost runs about $5000 for the immunity 
testing only plus cost of reports, give or take a few nickels.....

Warren

On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 19:30 US/Pacific, lfresea...@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/23/02 9:05:08 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> war...@comfortjets.com writes:
>
>
> A suite of testing runs about $6000 for immunity for ITE equipment to
> meet EN 55 024 without even talking about the Radiated Immunity
> requirements equipment and a chamber.  You are going to likely have to
> do this subset of testing anyway if you want a credible report as
> evidence of self-declaration.  The costs of emissions and immunity
> testing with reports is around $7000 and is a clean approach both
> financially and in timeline if you do some chamber tests first for
> emissions, say a 2-hour scan in a chamber.  Emissions and immunity
> testing are somewhat coupled in that a device that is a low radiator is
> also likely to have good resistance to susceptibility, but not always. 
> This is most often true of metal shielded enclosures and those with
> shielded I/O cables.
>
>
>
> Hi Warren,
>
> I think your test costs seem a little high, I won't say what I charge 
> for fear of being accused of commercialism. But a number of labs, good 
> labs, will charge under $4,500 for a full set of tests....
>
> There is a good deal of new equipment coming out from vendors too, 
> which may mean a flood of used, but still good equipment. E-bay is a 
> source for this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Derek Walton
> L F Research

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