tructions. Then YOU will have more control of the situation and the
pass/fail criteria.
Regards
John Allen
Racal
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From: Colgan, Chris[SMTP:chris.col...@tagmclarenaudio.com]
Sent: 02 March 2000 09:40
To: emc-p...@ieee.org
Subject:RE: Surge Testing per EN 55024/EN61000-4-5
I would appreciate comments from anyone.
Other versions of a similar concept would be appreciated by me (and
probably a few other people!).
John Allen
Product & System Safety Manager
Communications Division
Racal Defence Electronics Ltd
Bracknell
UK
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From: WELLMAN,RON (A-Palo
Hi Folks
My apologies to Jim Bacher - I was actually refering to the comment made by
Kurt!
Sorry!
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From: Andrews, Kurt[SMTP:kandr...@tracewell.com]
Sent: 18 January 2000 15:26
To: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com; Jackson; William;
'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org'
Subject:RE
ymbol (IEC 417 No. 5019). This symbol shall not be used for other
earthing terminals"
Regards
John Allen.
Racal Defence Electronics Ltd.
John Allen
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From: Andrews, Kurt[SMTP:kandr...@tracewell.com]
Sent: 18 January 2000 15:26
To: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com; Jacks
IEC 61558 series standards are now/will be EN's in the same series.
John Allen
- Original Message -
From: "POWELL, DOUG"
To: ;
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: Transformer assessments
>
> Ian,
>
> We use IEC61558-1 and find it is acceptab
Remember also that some types of alarms could come under the CE Marking
requirements of the Construction Products Directive, and those for
automotive use come under several non-CE automotive directives.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd
If anyone want an EOE version of Geoff Hoones policy statement for the UK
MoD then please email me direct.
John Allen
From: David Sproul [mailto:david.spr...@alexanderlynn.co.uk]
Sent: 11 November 2003 22:35
To: John Allen
Subject: RE: More CE mark issues...
Hi John,
Yes you are absolutely
d even then the military must operate precautions to ensure
a similar level of overall safety (and do the formal Safety Case).
Thus my opinion is "CE Mark" it - And it is easier overall than explaining
why you did not
John Allen
(ex Racal/Thales, but now)
Technical Consultant
EMC a
the text of this edition of 61010-1 with
the proverbial "pinch of salt" :- if it doesnt "look right" then it probably
isn't!!
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372
rrier itself.
So which faults are you trying to protect against?
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
+44-1372-367000 (Switchboard)
Fax: +44-1372-367102
Hi Folks
I think the URL to which Chris refers is this
http://www.aca.gov.au/consumer_info/frequently_asked_questions/emc.htm#repla
ceparts
It is part of the FAQ on this page
http://www.aca.gov.au/consumer_info/frequently_asked_questions/emc.htm
Useful, but only up to a point!
Regards
John
], notably including preparation of the technical files
with all the appropriate data (including, but certainly not limited to, test
reports) and then the DoC.
No Mark, DoC, or tech files = failure to comply with the directive(s).
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA
that might need to be traced and recalled.
How you do it is up to you! Serial numbering and/or batch codes are a good
idea to save you having to warn about/recall the whole product line if only a
few known units are affected!
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA
the DTI is using as the basis of current work in this area - you
might want to contact him at the cc email address as he can probably provide
you with most of the detailed information that you need.
Regards
John Allen
ERA Technology Ltd.
Leatherhead
UK
-Original Message---
Peter
That is understood as the overall product standard applies (I do not have the
CSA version of 60950-22), but it was only a hypothetical question, based on the
original one – see the exchange of emails with John R Allen at Product Safety
Inc.
Regards
John Allen
London, UK
ed to know something of the
background to the particular enquiry before we can provide the necessary
information and opinion.]
If, however, you or anyone else needs assistance in this area, Paul Goodman
is our specialist, and I believe that he can probably help you.
Regards
John Allen
Technical
Bill
Same problem as others complained about earlier this week, i.e. the URL line
wassplit by the EMC-PSTC mailer server.
Amend the URL by adding the ".html" from the line below - then it works!
Regards
John Allen
From: emccom...@aol.com [mailto:emccom...@aol.com]
Sent:
Hi Folks
Just found a page on the Commission site which lists all the various
Commission guides to the Directives (LVD, EMC etc), i.e:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/library/lib-regulation/libr-regulation.
html
Worth a look!
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Electromagnetics
of guide to the the areas which might be the
"odd-balls" - it certainly did mention the 127/220V 3-phase situation in
Belgium and some other parts of Europe.
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Electromagnetics, Safety and Reliability Group
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey K
lso have similar label sets
available - so can anyone identify other sources?
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
Tel:+44 (0) 1372-367025 (Direct)
+44 (0) 1372-367000 (Switchboard)
Fax:+44 (0) 137
Hi Folks
The end of the URL appears to have wrapped, so add "ument&ALT" to it from
the 2nd line.
Regards
John Allen
From: John Allen [mailto:john.al...@era.co.uk]
Sent: 24 February 2003 13:16
To: 'Nick Williams'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: RE: GOST standar
Nick
Try the GOST Stds Search Engine on
http://www.gost.ru/sls/gost.nsf/PVP/1762244D53B86C4AC32566DE0038560E?OpenDoc
ument&ALT
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
Tel:+44 (0) 1372-367025 (Di
sed by another thread!
(And system reliability for safety reasons is another area which I am also
not going to get into here!)
Regards
John Allen
From: George Brimlow [mailto:george.brim...@nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 20 February 2003 17:40
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: Re: IEC 61010
to be compliant to Directives
compliant & some also requires that it be CE Marked. This is true in the UK
and may be true elsewhere. You have to check directive by directive!
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
T
ical electrical
systems"
This describes the requirements and has diagrams to illustrate the various
combinations of 60601 and non-60601 equipments.
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
Tel:+44 (0)
tion files to back up your submission.
Please contact me off-line if you need further assistance.
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
Tel:+44 (0) 1372-367025 (Direct)
+44 (0) 1372-367000 (Switchboard)
Fax:
me over quite a few
years.
Nevertheless, if you are new to the game and not sure what to audit for (and
don't want to call the agency in!) then try to get a suitably experienced
consultant (and there are plenty out there around the world)in to it for you
- It could be a lot cheaper than the alt
ple (BS EN ISO) numbered document, and you will have to look in the
other Parts for relevant references to international documents.
Most of the currently issued parts are dated 2002.
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Reliability Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Sur
you guys in the HP & Agilent managements and marketing depts - a few
polite words and simple helpful actions keep customers happy - and keep them
as customers. Just ONE bad experience can lose you a customer for life!
Personal opinion only (of course).
John Allen
From: "Richard A.
that these requirements exist.
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Electromagnetics, Safety and Reliability Group
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
Tel:+44 (0) 1372-367025 (Direct)
+44 (0) 1372-367000 (Switchboard)
Fax:+44 (0) 1372-367102 (Fax)
From: craig.har.
you further if you contact him
directly:
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
Safety & Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
+44-1372-367000 (Switchboard)
Fax: +44-1372-367102
Parvinder's comments:-
Dear Char
Doug
Is the CuBe catalog available on the web as I would like to have a look at
it?
Thanks
John Allen
From: Doug Smith [mailto:d...@emcesd.com]
Sent: 28 March 2003 04:51
To: George Stults
Cc: Cortland Richmond; lfresea...@aol.com; ieee pstc list
Subject: Re: OK, what's going on?
Hi G
the URL ends in "..eng.rtf"
And it does work because I have just tried it again.
John Allen
From: Berkley [mailto:berk...@attbi.com]
Sent: 11 March 2003 23:43
To: John Allen
Subject: Re: New safety standards for goods in Russia
John,
Please check the link.. I am not able to access.
!
Regards
John Allen
Technical Consultant
Safety and Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd
Cleeve Rd
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
Tel:+44 (0) 1372-367025 (Direct)
+44 (0) 1372-367000 (Switchboard)
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From: Nick Williams [mailto:nick.willi...@conformance.co.uk
uch point in specifying a
reduced-immunity product for use where the local emissions environment is
Class A - or worse in the "close field" - rather than Class B.
Regards
John Allen
From: Provost, Norm [mailto:nprov...@foxboro.com]
Sent: 04 March 2003 13:43
To: lisa_cef...@mksinst.com; emc-
Josh
That's about the size of it, and that's what most of us try to tell our
customers - but do they listen?
Regards
John Allen
(from home!)
From: "Joshua Wiseman"
To: "John Allen" ; "Emc-Pstc (E-mail)"
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:58 PM
S
have suggestions for adhesives which wil
stick reasonably well but will then allow the thermocouples to be removed
fairly easily and without damage?
Regards
John Allen
ERA Technology Ltd
From: Constantin Bolintineanu [mailto:cbolintine...@dsc.com]
Sent: 22 April 2003 15:22
To: 'Ned Devine';
er, most of the guides are only available in the
national language!
(Done a bit of that over the years!)
Therefore, you would have to identify one or more sample countries and put
in some considerable work to investigate those in detail to get the
"flavours" being sought.
John Allen
under that Directive.
All earlier ATEX equipment schemes, including the "CENELEC" scheme have now
be superceeded by the schemes brought in by 94/9/EC.
Regards
John Allen
- Original Message -
From: "Rachid Sehb"
To: ;
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:44 AM
and I think that most things will
become clearer.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
Safety & Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
+44-1372-367000 (Switchboard)
Fax: +44-1372-367102
From: Gerald Tammi [mail
odes1.htm
and you should be able to track something down using the Code name and the
article reference number.
Regards
John Allen
- Original Message -
From: Jasmine <mailto:sb...@ctl.creative.com> TAN
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject:
Richard
Not arguing the point either way!
Just adding to the pot of "information" (or so I thought!)
My general reaction to this type of situation is:
- The left hand?
- The right hand??
- The one in the middle???
(think about it!)
Regards
John Allen
From: richhug.
but I had better not try to attach it to this
message as it is 151k file size, but if anyone really can't get at it then
I can send it direct (it might be better to put it on the IEEC Communities
website).
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Lt
Gary
That also reminded me of another one that occurred at the last company
"Hugh Gibson" became "Huge Gibbon" - absolutely true, and Hugh was NOT amused!
John Allen
- Original Message -
From: garymcintu...@aol.com
To: john.al...@era.co.uk ; peter.tar...@san
Another one:
At my last company, the email addresses were Surname.christian name@ XXX.co.uk
Mine was Allen.john@, but someone mistyped "Allen" as "Alien" - so you can
guess what the resulting address looked like!!
John ALLEN!!
- Original Message -
From: garym
Peter
Whilst at College, I knew a guy called Adrain - generally known as "Drain"
due to his capacity for beer!!
From: Peter L. Tarver [mailto:peter.tar...@sanmina-sci.com]
Sent: 19 June 2003 16:03
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: OT: (mis)spelling humor
> From: John Woodgate
> Sent:
gotiations" and "sectors".
For more info, put "country name + PECA" in a search engine . Being
"awkward", I generally use Altavista (not Google), and that took me to some
very relevant URL's and documents!
Try it and see!
Regards
John Allen,
Technical
Hi Folks
Via the QualityWorks site I was alerted to the above - which can be found at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/rtte/questionn/questionnaire.pdf
Some of you may be interested in responding to it.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
Safety & Risk Management
ERA Technology
John
The reason is that I am trying to trace some older national regulations
which were typically listed in the HD's as the reasons for national
deviations to the base standards. These regulations were often more clearly
called out than in the superceeding EN's.
John Allen
ERA Techno
Rich
So they are - I forgot the current list of HD's was at the end of the list
(I rarely need to look that far down!!). Unfortunately, most of those which
I am seeking are not on that list because they have been withdrawn after the
EN's were issued.
Thanks
John Allen
Fr
advance.
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
Safety & Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
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UK
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know, but there is a reason!
Thanks in advance.
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
Safety & Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
+44-1372-367000 (Switchboard)
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essionals, encounter something like this
which seems to be highly dangerous, then what should we do?
- Nothing?
- Tell the advertiser/supplier?
- Tell the authorities in the countries concerned?
- Tell the EU Commission if relevant?
- Tell the "world"?
Regards
John Allen
From: John Wood
e design?
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
Safety & Risk Management
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
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whether it is still there.
We also understand that the term "End Use Equipment" (EUE) has now been
amended to "End User Products" (EUP) - and that the scope may have changed
somewhat.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
C
tandards.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
+44-1372-367000 (Switchboard)
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From: Gordon,Ian [mailto:ian.gor...@bocedwards.com]
Sent: 23
the attention of anyone who is interest.
Regards
John Allen
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Eichner"
To: "'EMC-PSTC - forum'"
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 8:57 PM
Subject: RE: Software and Safety
>
> Seminars or short courses that people have taken
also meet the civilian safety standard
requirements and so can be CE Marked.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
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UK
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professional judgement and ethics involved :- would you AS A CUSTOMER feel
happy about being sold case a) or case b) equipment without knowing
something of it's history? If not, then don't sell it to someone else, or do
so only with full disclosure!
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
s
assistance to get their own house in order).
John Allen, Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead KT22 7SA, UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
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From: Lothar Schmidt [mailto:lothar.schm...@cetecom
nd advertised for mains connection
purposes, as then it could be used as a "flexible supply cord" by fitting a
mains plug!
Now someone can tell me that I have got this all wrong!
John Allen
From: Barker, Neil [mailto:neil.bar...@e2vtechnologies.com]
Sent: 18 September 20
due to
high ambient temperatures as if the equipment continues to function
throughout then it gives you an idea of the operating margins in more
"normal" conditions!
John Allen
From: Gibling, Vic [mailto:vic.gibl...@e2vtechnologies.com]
Sent: 18 September 2003 07:55
To: 'drcuthb...@micron.
Amund
Also suggest you consider Italian - it's quite a big country with relevant
legislation!
John Allen
From: am...@westin-emission.no [mailto:am...@westin-emission.no]
Sent: 29 October 2003 19:57
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: Re: IEC60950 - Language of user handbook
Than
l and
rely entirely on the installation fuse/circuit breaker, etc., for OVERCURRENT
protection; and either the earth continuity conductor or DOUBLE INSULATION for
leakage/touch current protection - possibly in conjunction with a Residual
Current Device/GFCI, etc.
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Cons
Kris
A brilliant example of how to try quite hard to prepare a suitable DoC, and
then fail badly because you don't know what is actually required - Machinery
Directive DoC's can be "interesting" as well!
Regards
John Allen
ERA Technology Ltd
From:
es).
Regards
John Allen,
Technical Consultant
EMC and Safety Engineering
ERA Technology Ltd.
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 7SA
UK
Tel: +44-1372-367025 (Direct)
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From: Bill Stumpf [mailto:bstu...@dlsemc.com]
Sent: 03 October 2003 17:0
ticular expertise - give a bit to gain
a bit is what this forum is all about!
Regards
John Allen
- Original Message -
From: Ablewisp - Compliance <mailto:s...@ablewisp.com> Engineers
To: Emc-Pstc <mailto:emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14,
ip system, but
give him a call on 01372-3677411
Regards
John Allen
ERA Technology
-Original Message-
From: Price, Andrew P (UK Basildon) [mailto:andrew.p.pr...@baesystems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:53 AM
To: Emc-Pstc (E-mail)
Subject: Query about shielding claims
Forwarded to: imail[emc-p...@ieee.org]
cc:
Comments by: JOHN ALLEN@1113_E@ENG_ATL
Comments:
Sorry if this is a repeat, my intranet is kind of flakey right now.
===
Forwarded to
If a component is Recognized there are Conditions of Acceptability or C of
A's included in the recognition report. These conditions will/may outline
test critera as well as additional requirements to be applied when used in an
end use product.
UL cannot release a report or C of A's without wr
Well, gee lets see. I work forTherefore I want my mark to go away and
make everyone who is in this business equal.
OK, how about this. Everyone remove their brand name from products. Let's
have one mark and generic products only. Thats a free market system right???
Or we just have one lab b
ious comments - all others are
still welcome!
Regards
John Allen.
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From: Nick Williams[SMTP:n...@conformance.co.uk]
Sent: 29 April 1999 12:07
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Cc: wo...@sensormatic.com; john.al...@racalradio.com;
chris.col...@tagmclarenaudio.com
Subject:
able to
get some general guidance from them.
Regards
John Allen
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From: Nick Williams[SMTP:n...@conformance.co.uk]
Reply To: Nick Williams
Sent: 28 April 1999 13:39
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject:Alarm bell box
I've been asked to give an opinion on an
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