thermal v magnetic breakers

2002-08-07 Thread Ted Rook
in our products we make extensive use of breakers combined with the on-off switch they are exclusively magnetic type thermal breakers work by temperature effects which arise from the heating effect of the current. There is an unavoidable time factor involved when the current must first heat

RE: IEC 60417 symbol library

2002-08-07 Thread Angus McGill (Cascade Engineering Svcs, Inc.)
Hi Everybody: Because of a need that has come up suddenly, I am looking for a source of two ISO 3864 symbols in a big hurry. Where can one purchase and download EPS or similar quality graphics of these symbols? The two I am looking for are the red circle-slash over the hand (meaning hot

RE: Thermal breakers vs magnetic breakers for telecom

2002-08-07 Thread Gary McInturff
Ran into a similar problem with the thermals - they tripped during the 72 hour 55C operating limit test. Could have gone larger but it had more problems than fitting in the magnetic units. Gary -Original Message- From: John Juhasz [mailto:john.juh...@ge-interlogix.com]

RE: Online Standards EN61010-1

2002-08-07 Thread Tyra, John
Hello Doug, Bose buys many of our standards from ILI in Great Britain (I believe) http://www.ili-info.com/us/ and we have received some in electronic format. These sites also seems to offer standards in PDF form and also gives you a simple free search engine to help you identify and find

RE: Thermal breakers vs magnetic breakers for telecom

2002-08-07 Thread John Lach
RE: Thermal breakers vs magnetic breakers8/7/02 David, One of the reasons they may have been rejected previously is their change in trip point due to temperature changes. The higher the ambient temperature gets the lower the trip point of the thermal device becomes. If

RE: Thermal breakers vs magnetic breakers for telecom

2002-08-07 Thread John Juhasz
Yeah, I had used them . . . once. As they were a lower cost circuit breaker we spec'd them into a telecom system. What we didn't think about was the temperature extremes. For the higher temp tests for NEBS the higher temp breakers were too large and too expensive - for my management anyway. I

RE: Thermal breakers vs magnetic breakers for telecom

2002-08-07 Thread Darrell Locke
When I worked on CATV power supplies I had two reasons for using magnetic; 1. Nuisance tripping of thermal breakers during high ambient temperatures 2. Magnetic breakers often carry a higher level of safety rating (UL Listed vs UL Recognized)than thermal and have higher short circuit maximum

Online Standards EN61010-1

2002-08-07 Thread POWELL, DOUG
Hello all, I have been searching for a document service that has electronic format standards (PDF) for EN61010-1:2001 with fully functional text search. IHS Global and TechStreet have hardcopy only. BSI offers electronic but it's only a converted TIFF format. I thought about using the IEC but

IEC 60417 symbol library

2002-08-07 Thread Peter Tarver
All interested - The IEC has just announced an upcoming on-line IEC 60417 symbol library will be made available soon (I checked and it's not yet available through the IEC Web Store). Don't expect to access them gratis, as they once were on the Chiba University, Ikeda Lab web site (even though

Thermal breakers vs magnetic breakers for telecom

2002-08-07 Thread David Heald
Greetings all, In the spirit of the continual quest for cost reduction, I have been asked to look into the use of thermal circuit breakers instead of magnetic ones. It seems like we rejected thermal breakers before for some reason, but now no one can remember why. Does anyone know of any

Re: European FDA Equivalent

2002-08-07 Thread Steven Goulding
The European equivalent is the IEC 60825 series of standards. There may also be more laser safety to deal with in IEC 60601-2-22 as well but I am not sure since most of my work with lasers have been with communications equipment. I hope this helps. Steven - Original Message - From: Joe

Re: European FDA Equivalent

2002-08-07 Thread SOUNDSURFR
In Canada, the analagous organization is Health Canada. Similar rules and responsibilities to FDA. The European system is somewhat different. All medical devices being marketed or placed into service in Europe must comply with the European Medical Device Directive (MDD) and carry a CE

EN 60825 Laser Classifications

2002-08-07 Thread Joe P Martin
Group, Amendment 2 (2001) to EN60825 Safety of laser products, has changed some laser classifications. The amendment has included new classifications 1M, 2M and 3R. Class 1M and 2M include in their definitions For diverging beams if the user places optical components within 100mm from the