3 meter anechoic room quote

2001-01-04 Thread Matsuda, Ken
Greeting group, I am currently looking for quotes for a 3 meter anechoic chamber. Anyone know of any sources as well as rough estimates on costs? Thanks, Ken Matsuda --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-p

RE: Radiated Immunity

2001-01-04 Thread John Juhasz
Oh . . .how I WISH that were the case!!! With all due respect, you may want to re-consider using that source for regulatory information . . . John Juhasz Fiber Options Bohemia, NY -Original Message- From: Courtland Thomas [mailto:ctho...@patton.com] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 5:51

RE: Shipping RMA/Repair product to Europe

2001-01-04 Thread Joshua Wiseman
Micheal, My understanding of this scenario is that as long as the unit for repair stayed with in the EU. There is no problem provided it is sent to the original customer. If the product leaves the EU then it must meet the new requirements. Josh -Original Message- From: michael.garret...

RE: Radiated Immunity

2001-01-04 Thread CE-test - Ing. Gert Gremmen - ce-marking and more...
No way Courtland, Immunity test are not the first priority of governmental officers, that may have tempted someone to overlook these requirements. Regards, Gert Gremmen, (Ing) ce-test, qualified testing === Web presence http://www.cetest.nl CE-shop

FW: HCFC ban in Europe - EC reg 2037/2000

2001-01-04 Thread Crane, Lauren
resend - didn't see original post > -Original Message- > From: Crane, Lauren > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:15 AM > To: 's...@world.std.com'; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > Subject: HCFC ban in Europe - EC reg 2037/2000 > > Summary === > > The EC "oz

Radiated Immunity

2001-01-04 Thread Courtland Thomas
Hello group, I have heard that the Radiated Immunity test is not required for 'CE'. I don't recall reading that anywhere, so I would like to know what the story is. Thanks, Courtland Thomas --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Te

EN documents for service, support, vibration and shock?

2001-01-04 Thread O'Shaughnessy, Paul
Dear List, Can anyone provide reference to the correct European Standards on length of time service and support must be maintained for a product? (ie. five years, ten years, etc.) Also, what are the appropriate EN documents relating to the vibration and shock that instruments must withstand dur

RE: HP6842A harmonics analyser - is it obsolete?

2001-01-04 Thread Michael Mertinooke
>"Dear Valued Regulatory Test Solution Customer, >Agilent Technologies has recently made a strategic decision regarding our >acsource product family..." >"...to withdraw from the EMI compliance market. So, within a frame >of less than five years, I have a $13,000 software investment which >is n

Re: EN61000-3-2 / EN61000-3-3 (Again)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Hensley
Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions regarding EN61000-3-2 / 3-3. This was a great help as the responses were very clear and consistent. At least for now, I have a much better understanding of these standards and their scope. Craig Hensley Iomega Corp. >>> Craig Hensley 01/03/01

Shipping RMA/Repair product to Europe

2001-01-04 Thread Michael . Garretson
Group: I ran into an interesting curve on 61000-3-2/-3-3 that I wanted to make sure I dealt with appropriately. In our efforts to requalify our products for these requirements we handled most of the situations we could come up with, but the one area I missed was our Service department. We have

RE: Complications of self-declaration without an independent test lab being involved

2001-01-04 Thread John Juhasz
If I may interject my opinion here . . . On only two occassions have I had to provide a report to back-up my DoC. The laboratory has their accreditations listed at the bottom of the cover page. I did not receive any further queries about the data or the lab that performed it. Was it because the

RE: Complications of self-declaration without an independent test lab being involved

2001-01-04 Thread Lfresearch
Gary, you make this statement... Besides I have never seen a cost impact on using an accredited lab, and knowing that my test lab reads this forum, I had better not see one (Morning, Paul and Jim), so it just doesn't seem prudent to me not to use an accredited lab I charge $600/day for membe

RE: Complications of self-declaration without an independent test lab being involved

2001-01-04 Thread Pettit, Ghery
Gary, Good points, but the fact remains that laboratory accreditation is not required for testing to the EMC Directive in Europe. It is my opinion that they got this one right. If we are going to have lab accreditation, it should be in the country in which the lab is located and then accepted w

HCFC ban in Europe - EC reg 2037/2000

2001-01-04 Thread Crane, Lauren
Summary === The EC "ozone regulation" No. 2037/2000 does, indeed, prohibit the use of HCFC's as early as 1/1/00. In fact, some uses of HCFC's as early as 1/1/96. The trick to reading this regulation is to understand that the prohibition dates are scheduled according to the

RE: Complications of self-declaration without an independent test lab being involved

2001-01-04 Thread Gary McInturff
Ghery, Personal opinion time. You may want to re-think the Europe thing. Even if you are correct that you don't currently need them for Europe, accredited labs are really the underpinnings for global acceptance of EMC data (Okay - not Korea but don't get me started on them for the

RE: HP6842A harmonics analyser - is it obsolete?

2001-01-04 Thread Colgan, Chris
I have spent the last couple of days ploughing through EN61000-3-2, it's amendment A14, IEC1000-4-7 and the HP harmonics application note 1273. I am 90% sure that I can continue using the 6842A for compliance measurements but I would love to have some confirmation. I have tried asking Agilent bu

Draft Decision of European Parliament and Council on Radio Sp ect rum Policy

2001-01-04 Thread WOODS
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Re: Seeking assistance from Chemical Experts

2001-01-04 Thread Robert Johnson
As I recall, the requirements for label durability came years ago from UL, where the original test specified kerosene. As the standards evolved, propagated and became international, the term kerosene was complained about since it varied worldwide. In attempts to be more specific, someone came

Dec. 29, 2000 EMC/Telco/Product Safety Update Now Available

2001-01-04 Thread Glen Dash
The Curtis-Straus Update for the week ending Dec. 29, 2000 is now available at: http://www.conformity-update.com This week's headlines are: FCC MAY REQUIRE UNIQUE ID FOR ALL. GE DISHWASHER DEBACLE CONTINUES. EU BREAKS IMPASSE, PREPARES FOR ENLARGEMENT. EU PONDERS A BILL OF RIGHTS. THE IEC'S LA

RE: HP6842A harmonics analyser - is it obsolete?

2001-01-04 Thread Price, Ed
I bought the HP-8571A Receiver System and an HP Series 300 Workstation, with the associated HP-85869A EMI Acquisition software ($8000) about 5 years ago. When the workstation developed a problem about three years ago, I found I could replace the workstation with a PC (by buying the HP-85869PC and

RE: NSA above 1 GHz

2001-01-04 Thread CE-test - Ing. Gert Gremmen - ce-marking and more...
NSA above 1 GHz becomes (technically spoken) less relevant , as it becomes increasingly easier to calibrate antennas as if they were used in free space. The short wavelength makes is easy to choose the antenna-antenna distance very short compared to the height of them. In this way reflections are

RE: Seeking assistance from Chemical Experts

2001-01-04 Thread Massey, Doug C.
>>We might be trying to make a mountain out of a molehill here. I agree that a mountain is being made of a molehill - however, I think the TC made the mountain, not those of us who have tried to interpret the mountain. For my part, I have posted this exact question in the past and found the same

Re: NSA above 1 GHz

2001-01-04 Thread reheller
Mike, in C63.4, the project number is 1-13.2. The contact is Michael Windler. michael.j.wind...@us.ul.com >From the latest C63 Newsletter: "The key issues being addressed in this project include ground plane influences, site reflections and practical frequency limits to the traditional method