Re: Commercial EMC software

2005-08-21 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Ken, Yes, you are right, the standards can sometimes be a compromise based on what is technically feasible and practical. No point in a standard that requires equipment that is not available or cost prohibitive. Unless you count the old GR1089 bulk current injection standard that had a test level

Re: RF Susceptibility: Sweep v/s spot check

2005-08-21 Thread emc-pstc@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
lfresea...@aol.com wrote (in <1f5.102ef2e6.303a1...@aol.com>) about 'RF Susceptibility: Sweep v/s spot check', on Sun, 21 Aug 2005: >In a message dated 8/20/2005 4:18:48 PM GMT Daylight Time, >j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk writes: > >The British Standards EMC committees have test houses very well >represe

Re: Commercial EMC software

2005-08-21 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
The issue as I understand it is that susceptibilities are found during a 61000-4-3 sweep, but cannot be found during a manual scan, or a manual search for a threshold of susceptibility. I suggest that at the levels at which testing is performed (1, 3 or 10 V/m unmodulated), the threat simulated is

Re: RF Susceptibility: Sweep v/s spot check

2005-08-21 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
In a message dated 8/20/2005 4:18:48 PM GMT Daylight Time, j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk writes: The British Standards EMC committees have test houses very well represented. Two observations... First: Test houses are entities that commercially exist to evaluate products. It is unlikely that you will

Re: Commercial EMC software

2005-08-21 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
lfresea...@aol.com wrote (in <87.2e27d439.303a0...@aol.com>) about 'Commercial EMC software', on Sun, 21 Aug 2005: > I've found the US National Committee ( I live in Chicago ) unreceptive >to assistance. Since I finance committee work myself, guess how much I >persist pursuing committees where

Re: Commercial EMC software

2005-08-21 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
In a message dated 8/20/2005 4:18:25 PM GMT Daylight Time, j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk writes: >As I've stressed, the standards are so poorly written that there are >interpretations of how the test should be run. But do you at least try to do something about that? Such as making constructive critici