Protective Earthing Terminal Marking

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
An interesting issue arose today, in reviewing a product. I thought I'd share the joy. Consider a garden variety piece of ITE with and appliance inlet/EMI filter combination and a PE bonding conductor from an EMI filter terminal to a stud pressed into the chassis. The area around the stud does

Re: laminated capacitor source

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Hi Fred, Brent is correct in that Rogers made such capacitors, probably about 15 years ago, or so. It was a novel idea that attempted to provide some decoupling to a design that could not accommodate it otherwise. I believe that with the advent of generally better PWB designs, the need for such

Meeting Notice Santa Clara, Tuesday April 13th

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 "EMC Testing of Substation Products " Jerry Ramie ARC Technical Resources, Inc. Details: - The Presentation, "EMC Testing of Substation Products," concerns the EMC testing requirements for products that are installed in Power Generation or Substation plants h

Re: laminated capacitor source

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
I suspect there may be some saw dust is there. Rogers made laminated bus bars that gave a distributed capacitance effect. They were expensive and difficult to engineer and install. The same effect can be achieved at a lower cost be using a multilayer PCB. (This probably explains why they ar

laminated capacitor source

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
In the old days, you could buy a laminated film bypass capacitor that soldered under a through-hole DIP, connecting only to the corner power pins. Somewhere in the dust bin of my brain I thought they were made by Rogers, but they don't have anything like that now. Does anyone know if such beasts

RE:

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Got it figured out. I found a manual at Agilent. Apparently the memory card is not used to transfer the screen dump to a PC. I suppose I will have to use the HP-IBM. Dave Cuthbert -Original Message- From: drcuthbert Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:47 AM To: emc-p...@major

FW:

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Got the correct model number this time. -Original Message- From: drcuthbert Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:46 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: I have an HP 8594E with no manual. Does anyone know what type of memory card it uses? Dave Cuthbert

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2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
I have an HP 8753E with no manual. Does anyone know what type of memory card it uses? Dave Cuthbert

Re: Is it a common mode problem?

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Make sure the laptop is not the source of the problem. Connect your 1 meter cable to the laptop, leave the other end open, and then measure your emissions. Note that a 1 meter cable is just about a quarter-wave monopole antenna at 72 MHz (good radiation efficiency). Don Borowski Schweitzer

RE: Primary Power On PCB's

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Scott, I don't have complete answers for you; but I do have some tidbits. With regard to layer to layer spacing of hazardous (Primary Power) traces: Rich Hughes has already replied, correctly, that this is a case of distance through insulation, not creepage or clearance, which is through air.

Re: surge test problem about IEC61000-4-5

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
I read in !emc-pstc that Li Di wrote (in <20040412091633.76599.qm...@web15405.mail.cnb.yahoo.com>) about 'surge test problem about IEC61000-4-5' on Mon, 12 Apr 2004: >I have two questions for surge test of IEC61000-4-5. Please help me. >Precondition: We have only one product to be tested. Strict

surge test problem about IEC61000-4-5

2004-04-12 Thread owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Hi, list I have two questions for surge test of IEC61000-4-5. Please help me. Precondition: We have only one product to be tested. Strictly to say, two products are needed. But for heavy or complicated and expensive product, it is very difficult to provide two samples at the same time. The signal