Doug, In researching the book that I am writing for Kluwer, Robust Electronic Design Reference, I ran across the following booklet: Lund, Preben, How to Design Printed Circuit Boards for UL Recognition. Westlake Village, CA: Bishop Graphics, 1983.
In my manuscript, I discuss UL Recognition of PCB's on pages G-15 and G-16. Basically, a UL Recognition Card ("Yellow Card") issued by UL to a printed circuit board (PCB) vendor covers: * The laminate, conductor, soldermask, surface finish, and legend materials to be used, and acceptable alternatives. * The vendor's manufacturing process. * The design rules to be followed, including: - Minimum trace width for "Midboard Conductors". - Minimum trace width for "Edge Conductors". - Minimum annular ring on vias and plated-through holes. - Maximum Unpierced Area. - Maximum operating temperature. - Minimum thicknesses for base laminate, C-stage laminates, B-stage laminates, and finished PCB's. - Conductor thickness. If you would like a deeper understanding of what a "94V-0" rating represents, I suggest you read Grand, Arthur F., and Wilkie, Charles A., Fire Retardancy of Polymeric Materials. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000. John Barnes KS4GL, PE, NCE, ESDC Eng, SM IEEE dBi Corporation http://www.dbicorporation.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: emc_p...@symbol.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