If you are going to claim compliance to EN50385, you will have to make the assessment according to the standard. Otherwise, you have the following choices:
Claim safety conformity to the procedures of the RTTE Directive and create a Technical Construction File and consult with a Notified Body as to the assessment method. Claim safety conformity to the procedures of the LVD (the RTTE Directive allows this)and build a TCF. Under the LVD the use of a Notified Body is not required if harmonized standards are not applied. Obviously, this process has risks since a harmonized standard does exist. In case of challenge, conformity may be difficult to prove without the opinion of a NB. However, I did use this route myself when the the EMF standard I use was in draft form. In your case you should probably use one of the first two choices. Richard Woods Sensormatic Electronics Tyco International From: Charles Blackham [mailto:cblac...@airspan.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:49 AM To: emc-pstc Subject: Demonstrating compliance with Human Exposure to EMF requirements All I'm attempting to demonstrate the compliance of our fixed wireless access system with the human exposure to EMF requirements of Article 3.1a of the R&TTE directive: The applicable standard, EN50385, requires the field strengths to be measured/calculated according to EN50383 against the limits detailed in 1999/519/EC. My reading of 1999/519/EC is that the maximum allow E-filed is 61 V/m for 2-300 GHz. I calculate that our subscriber equipment is generating a field of 10 V/m at 0.5m distance. So, so save measuring/calculating near field values, can I just add to the user manual that you should not stand within 0.5m of the front of the equipment? (The antenna wouldn't work so well if you did, and it would be difficult to anyway as it typically pole/chimney mounted) regards Charlie Blackham Approvals Manager Airspan Communications 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 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
