Re: [PSES] FCC market surveillance

2015-08-10 Thread Michael Derby
Hello Amund, The FCC do perform market surveillance on certified products and every TCB must also perform market surveillance on 5% of the devices they have certified. The TCB must report the findings of their surveillance to the FCC each year. I think the results are not openly reported, but I s

Re: [PSES] EMC Testing on Class II Supplies

2015-08-10 Thread John Woodgate
In message <30787e2ea67f9b4fa5cb137f4b721c6802a90...@vm-29-exchange.snellwilcox.loca l>, dated Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Robert Dunkerley writes: Silly question, but if you are testing a Class II double-insulated supply with no earth, would you simply ignore the Common Mode parts of the test eg Su

Re: [PSES] EMC Testing on Class II Supplies

2015-08-10 Thread Ari Honkala
Hi, please see IEC 61000-4-5 clause 7.3, which states that no surge is applied in case of no ground connection. This is also repeated in many product standards, at least CISPR 14-2 comes to my mind. Ari Honkala From: Robert Dunkerley [mailto:robert.dunker...@snellgroup.com] Sent: 10. elokuuta 2

Re: [PSES] Calculating Reflection Angles on OATS/SAC

2015-08-10 Thread John Allen
IIRC IIRC, most of the basic principles were explained, with illustrations, in Albert Smith’s early IEE papers published in the 1980s. I only had a paper copy of those when I started experimenting with his swept-frequency site calibration methods in the late 80’s (at HP) and I assume that

[PSES] EMC Testing on Class II Supplies

2015-08-10 Thread Robert Dunkerley
Hi, Silly question, but if you are testing a Class II double-insulated supply with no earth, would you simply ignore the Common Mode parts of the test eg Surge Immunity (Live to Ground/Neutral to Ground ignored), or is there some other arrangement to be used? Many thanks, Regards,

Re: [PSES] Calculating Reflection Angles on OATS/SAC

2015-08-10 Thread Pawson, James
Very helpful, thanks Brent! From: Brent DeWitt [mailto:bdew...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: 08 August 2015 01:19 To: Pawson, James; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: RE: [PSES] Calculating Reflection Angles on OATS/SAC Hi James, The image concept again is useful. By definition, the ground reference