I read in !emc-pstc that Ralph McDiarmid <ralph.mcdiar...@xantrex.com> wrote (in <67C475A5ECE7D4118AEC0002B325CAB60581A413@BCMAIL1>) about 'EN 61000-3-2:2000' on Mon, 10 Nov 2003:
>IMO, if such an interpretation is not forthcoming then it shall be left >to the manufacturers to interprete it and state it in their >documentation, just as the Performance Criteria has been left. (see the >thread on that topic a few months ago!) Look, somebody has to ASK for an interpretation. If no-one asks, the committee doesn't know that some people have a problem with it. > >If standards like this one in question cannot be written sufficiently >clearly, then I suggest they be withdrawn and rewritten and then >carfully assessed. Over 30 years experience of writing standards, I have concluded that there is NO text that can't be misunderstood. Would you like to join in the work, so that you could help to write standards that are totally lucid? I expect the relevant TAG would welcome your input. > >Some have questioned whether 61000-3-2 is even an EMC standard! If not, what do you think it is? -- 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: 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
