Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread Doug Powell
These voltages, and more, all exist today. It depends on the system to which you are connected. The 110 is from a 220 split phase feed. Often this is from of a secondary of a delta connected transformer. Normally 120v is derived from a 208v three phase wye system. It is from one of the phase

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread itl-emc user group
After all this discussion, Does anyone know the Mains Voltage in the US. It was once 110 VAC and then 115 VAC. I heard that now it may be 120 VAC Any info would be helpful -Original Message- From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of John Woodgate Sent: Wednesday, Marc

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread Ralph . McDiarmid
Marketing people will always do that. " . . .so and so, say then can operate over 90 - 265V, so we need to do 85-270" and so on. What they don't remember or perhaps don't understand is that it is one thing to say we can operate over that range, but another thing to meet all specs (ambient tem

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread John Woodgate
In message , dated Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Brian Oconnell writes: I see minimal politics in EMC or safety standards - so they are a technical standard. You should be there! In EMC, PLT is pure politics, but there are more subtle examples. In fact, 'politics versus engineering' is the wrong way

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread Brian Oconnell
The PSES is in trouble - the space aliens have found us and have sent a member of the ESO (an obvious front for the Galactic Imperial envoy) to maintain control. My employer has traditionally vended stuff subject to short-term decision making and immediate responses to customer changes. Having rec

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread John Woodgate
In message <4ca283837b67ec48b4943536cfe7c14805327...@hqmbx2.ads.eso.org>, dated Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Canio Dichirico writes: C.6) Honestly I ignore whether IEC and/or CENELEC are actually pursuing what stated in the above-mentioned note of IEC 38, i.e., "after this the reduction of this range [

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread Ralph . McDiarmid
By "under-excitement" and "over-excitement", do you mean lagging and leading power factors? ___ Ralph McDiarmid | Schneider Electric | Solar Business | CANADA | Regulatory Compliance Engineering From:

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread Canio Dichirico
Dear All, Some comments of mine embedded in the message below. Kind regards Canio Dichirico > -Original Message- > From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of John > Cotman > Sent: 21 March 2012 10.50 > To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > Su

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread Kunde, Brian
Our company tries to sell to a global market which can be very challenging when it comes to AC Mains voltage. In the US, we refer to our voltage as "110/220" for the split phase power we have in our homes, but in most industrial facilities there is a wide variety of power sources and the voltage

[PSES] South Korea KCC connector approval

2012-03-21 Thread Dan Roman
Hi, I'm looking for a lab that can do the testing to the new KCC RJ connector requirements and give me a report I can use to self-declare with. Requirements are similar to TIA-1096-A. Anyone know of a lab that can do this in the USA? It's apparently still pretty hard to find RJ connectors tha

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
Your contribution must be part of the misinformation then ;<)) > 3. Mainland Europe mains is also nominally 230V, but it happens to be on the > low side, and is the same 220V it always has been. In our region Rotterdam, I personally have not seen the AC mains voltage below 228 Vac in years, of c

Re: [PSES] Mains voltage in Europe

2012-03-21 Thread John Cotman
There is a lot of misinformation (generally, I mean, not on this forum) about this topic. 1. The common 230V is a legal fiction to allow free movement of goods within the CE marking area. It's a political voltage, not an engineering one. 2. UK mains is therefore nominally 230V, but it happens