RE: Repair of HP8568

2004-09-17 Thread Josh Wiseman
Hans, I have used Avalon in the past. They are located in San Diego. They took as many parts for this unit as they could get a hold of when HP/Agilent quit supporting it. The group has been very helpful to me before. Their phone number is 1 (888) 542-8256. Their webpage is http://www.avalonte

Repair of HP8568

2004-09-17 Thread hansm
Can anyone suggest someone that can repair an HP8568? Down to the component level. I already had Agilent and a few other labs gladly charge me for an evaluation to come back and say "assembly NLA" or no-longer-available. I could use a good reference of an individual or company that can actually rep

Re: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread robert Macy
Andrew, My firm has the technology to make optically transparent magnetic shield. Optical transparency is better than 65%. Costs relate to the requirement of how much field of view reduction of field Please contact me directly, off the group. - Robert - Robert A.

RE: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread drcuthb...@micron.com
To get an idea of metal thickness consider that a CD is coated with 50-80 nanometers of aluminum or gold. You can see through it when you hold it up to a light source. 50 nm is one skin depth thick at 2 TeraHertz. Not much good for us. By the way, next time you get a CD you don't need place it in a

ATEX Zone 1: Using Active Current Limiting Circuitry

2004-09-17 Thread emc-p...@att.net
We're trying to design a product that goes into a Zone 1 explosive atmosphere using intrinsic safety as our protection method. We have a version of the product that meets Zone 2 requirements (non-incendive) and we were able to use active current limiting circuitry to keep energy levels down. We a

RE: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread drcuthb...@micron.com
Chris, A high permeability helps when the coating is thin- 1 skin depth or less. If the coating is much thicker than one skin depth then a non-magnetic conductor will be about as good as a magnetic conductor. If one has the depth, and the opening diameter is not too great (<1/2 wavelength), the wa

Re: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread Steve Toyama
ITO is commonly used to shield windows and anti-reflectance can be used to reduce glare. I suspect the rainbow is due to poor quality and not to all ITO coatings. The original patent holder of applying ITO to glass is Saleem Shaikh of Thin Film Devices in Anaheim. www.tfdinc.com. Copper tape is

RE: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Maxwell
Probably not enough to help out the permeability much. Too bad. From: owner-emc-p...@listserv.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@listserv.ieee.org] On Behalf Of John Woodgate Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:31 AM To: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

Re: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread John Woodgate
In article <39f7060a00b5e946b516261c077441c02ea...@utexch1w.gnnettest.co m>, Chris Maxwell writes >No, I meant monel. I put the question mark after it because I knew >that it was available as a shielding material; but unsure of its >permeability. According to Laird technologies website, monel c

RE: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Maxwell
Whew, Everybody is on the beam. My two or three sentence reply has brought up a few questions. Let me just say that I take no exception to anybody debating me regarding electromagnetics...even though my surname is Maxwell. The genes have thinned out over a few generations; so I make many "debat

RE: Germanium & ITO Window shielding effectiveness

2004-09-17 Thread Gourari, Alexandre
Ken, Your approach about eddy currents somewhat true, but not all. We would never be in need of hign-mu materials then. You forget about skin effect that limits your shielding effectiveness. As long as can provide enough material thickness >> skin effect depth you are home free. Otherwise eddy cur