Some time back there was a fellow in Belgium offering a rather clever ESD Verification device in the $4800 range. It tracked the rise time and current against the 61000-4-2 Spec. Less than 25% of the cost of a 6 Ghz bandwidth scope. I seem to remember his name was Hendrix from Heavox Company or something like that. (Perhaps other PST members can remember his name - I lost all my archived email when I was forced to "upgrade" my PC to Win-disaster 2000 - sorry) We looked into buying one but rejected it in the end due to the annual calibration costs being almost equal to the original cost and 4-6 weeks turnaround time. Still, it seemed a clever approach to the problem.
It may be worth your time to investigate this approach as a lower cost alternate to a wideband scope. Regards, Michael Taylor Colorado -----Original Message----- From: John Harrington [ mailto:jharring...@f2labs.com] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:46 PM To: 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org' Subject: ESD gun verification Hello All Does any one have a quick and dirty (and hopefully cheap) way to verify the performance of an ESD gun. Please, no one suggest building the current sensing system described in the back of IEC 61000-4-2. I don't understand the drawings let alone have the workshop or materials to consider it. Although, I may pay someone to build it for me... I am desperate enough to consider buying something off the shelf (if I could find said shelf). All help appreciated John Harrington EMC Technical Manager F-Squared Laboratories ------------------------------------------- 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
