Gary That sounds like a certification mark for Hazardous/Flammable atmospherem equipment - now covered by the ATEX Directive in Europe and similar legislation and standards elsewhere (e.g in the US NEC).
It is always qualified by additional characters denoting the type of protection incorporated, the surface temperatures etc., etc. I would be very careful about helping someone to select a replacement if the application is in a hazardous atmospheres location. Take advice from someone who knows the requirements in the country/location where the equipment is to be used. If the location is not hazardous atmospheres, then the problem will probably go away as the EX mark is irrelevant. So then apply the appropriate normal engineering safety/certification criteria for selection of the replacement. Regards John Allen Thales Defence Communications Bracknell, UK. -----Original Message----- From: Gary McInturff [mailto:gary.mcintu...@worldwidepackets.com] Sent: 17 January 2002 00:37 To: EMC-PSTC (E-mail) Subject: certification mark identification Does anybody recognize an Ex inside of a hexagon? Think it might be French. Its on a Capri part. Not even one of mine but trying to do a good dead for one of our suppliers. Thanks in advance Gary ------------------------------------------- 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.
