> The only thing it lacks (which is almost inevitable, and is virtually > impossible to keep up to date) is a town-by-town (etc.) listing like you > used to find in the US Department of Commerce "Electricity Supplies Abroad" > booklet. This booklet had a red cover (if I remember correctly)and was around > in the 1970's. However, if anyone still has an old copy, then it would > probably be some sort of guide to the areas which might be the > "odd-balls" - it certainly did mention the 127/220V 3-phase situation in > Belgium and some other parts of Europe.
The 1997 edition (revised Jan 2001) no longer has a red cover, sad to say, but it IS on the internet: http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/machinery/ecabroad/ It is called "ELECTRIC CURRENT ABROAD" (odd, because it has more to say about voltage and frequency than current!) Published by the Office of Machinery, part of the US Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. "The Office of Machinery (OM) assists U.S. businesses in the exportation of production machinery and general components." PS: I would agree that it is impossible to keep this kind of stuff up to date. It may or may not be that the BSI document is better, I do not have a copy. The DoC (Dept of Commerce, in this case) document is free. (To paraphrase Ted Rook and the Peoples Front of Judea, "When was the last time the government did something for me?") I guess I would like to have both, and see if there was a consensus. best regards, glyn TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc. Glyn R. Garside Tel (847)562-9888 ext 25 http://www.us.tuv.com 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...@attbi.com 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"
