Hi George: Take a look at IEEE standard C62.41 ('Recommended Practice on Surge Voltages in Low-Voltage AC Power Circuits'). It has summaries of transient voltage surveys done by other people around the world. Other portions of the standard suggest specific types of surge tests & test levels. These are based on geographic location, as well as location on the premises (equipment connected deep within a building, connected near the main circuit breaker box, or connected near the utility power pole.)
Note - it doesn't talk about equipment malfunction, just about the types of transient voltages recorded. On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:17:29 -0800, George Stults <george.stu...@watchguard.com> wrote: >I am trying right now to convince some folks that power line voltage spike >problems can be and usually are severe enough to degrade or kill ITE >products that don't have adequate over-voltage protection. I found a link >using Google that describes the problems [ >http://www.kalglo.com/powrline.htm ] but I'm looking for additional links to >specifics or summaries if any one knows of such. ---- Patrick Lawler plaw...@west.net ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com 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: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"