Robert, Good idea! May I try to contact them to see if they can provide any useful advice and experience.
Best regards, Scott From: Robert A. Macy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:05 PM To: Scott Xe Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Caught fire during stand-by mode Try your local fire department. They have an 'arson investigation' unit, skilled at finding the sources of fires. Else, try to find the hottest point and surmise WHY it started there. On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:44:24 +0800 Scott Xe <[email protected]> wrote: > I have heard such failure in catching fire during > stand-by mode for long but > never seen a real case. Recently, we have a returned > multi-functional audio > video product having such symptom: part of cabinet melted > and the pcb around > the power rectifiers area burned out. I tried to locate > the possible causes > of catching fire. However, under such circumstances, I > have no idea how to > start the investigation. Can someone point me out > somewhere to have such > investigation reports for reference/information or any > guidance to such > study can be shared. > > Thanks, > > Scott - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
