I read in !emc-pstc that Mark Kirincic <mkirin...@houston.rr.com> wrote (in <098201c2f521$284e4820$6501a8c0@kristina2005>) about 'OK, what's going on?' on Fri, 28 Mar 2003:
>By the way I do not work for a test house, I didn't imply that you did. > I am just trying to clean up and >legitimize the rules that were set up by the EC and FCC as well as other EMC >laws out there. But is that the right thing to do? More and more people are questioning the whole basis of EU EMC regulation, partly because it is over- stringent and partly because the testing is not based on sound technical principles. The latter is because we just don't know how to do that! The test methods and the limits are in many cases simply derived pragmatically. 'If we do the tests this way and apply this limit, we reduce complaints of EMI to an acceptable minimum.' For this to work as a practical measure, **there has to be an efficient complaints procedure and a system for following up complaints properly.*** In many cases now, neither of these conditions is met, due to constraints on expenditure. So, a lot of costly testing is being done, with no feedback on whether it is more than achieving its object, or dismally failing to achieve it. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Interested in professional sound reinforcement and distribution? Then go to http://www.isce.org.uk PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! 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 Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
