Re: ULC vs. CUL

2001-11-21 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
I would strongly suggest that you go to the Standards Council of Canada site at www.scc.ca wherein all that you are talking about will be come clear. Look under accreditation and standards or do a search on the site. In summary ULC is the following: 1) Now fully owned by Underwriters Laboratories

Re: Compliance Documentation

2001-02-18 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Documents scanning can be pretty tedious and as you have mentioned not always resulting in what you want. I'm currently working on a trial test on document scanning with a specialist in the field, Arimtec International. The web site address is http://www.arimtec.ca; and the president's name is

Re: UL/CSA/IEC/EN Standards Search

2001-01-15 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
CSA sales can give you the most recent standards. You can reach them via their web. I understand that the latest edition of the binational CSA/UL 950 can be ordered. If you want to see the work programme for all of the SDO's in Canada including CSA and then link to CSA start at http://www.scc.ca

Re: Standards

2000-12-20 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
To Phrase this differently CEN signed the Vienna Agreement with ISO and CENELEC signed the Dresden Agreement with IEC. You can find copies and details on these on many sites include ANSI. These have been the topic of some recent discussion. CENELEC does try to follow IEC numbering and text where

Re: NRTL acceptance

1999-11-23 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Vitaly, your comment regarding CSA is incorrect. CSA is an NRTL just like the others. CSA has a mark for NRTL approval. Regards G. Rae Dulmage Gorodetsky, Vitaly wrote: George, You have overlooked MET, NTS, WYLE, SWRI and others. For a complete list and the scope of recognition, go to

Re: EMC and Safety Requirements for Mexico

1999-09-13 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Carlos, the answer to your first question is no. You will need to get approval for your products in Mexico. Their specifications are IEC derived in most cases. You will need to obtan national approval through a Mexican agency or the Mexican office of a Certifying organization such as UL, TUV

Re: Japanese requirements

1999-07-21 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear Paul, For the Japanese EMI requirements go to the VCCI website and look up their information. Some is free and some has to be ordered. They are pretty responsive people when asked a question. The Website address is: http://www.vcci.jp/vcci/vccie/. For safety Japan follows the CB scheme

Re: Off Topic Maybe: Hydrogen Fuel Cells

1999-07-17 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Douglas, The IEEE Spectrum May 1999 issue pages 45-52 had an excellent article on Fuel Cells by Ronald H. Wolk. It gave a number of web site addresses for more information about fuel cells as follows: http://www.fetc.doe.gov http://www.dodfuelcell.com http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu

Re: E H Near Field Probes

1999-07-03 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
When I was the VP of Certelecom Laboratories I specified and purchased the Com-Power probes and pre-amp. I did quite an extensive search and a lot of phone calling before settling on this make. They certainly were very useful. We also had Electro-Metrics probes but tended to use the Com-Power

Re: emc compliance

1999-06-26 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Lisa, I don't think so. If you had the cable built with the ferrite included or the ferrite was sleeved in such a way that it was not removeable and your equipment was supplied with this you can then provide a full declaration of conformity provided that you advise that they must use the cable

Re: India

1999-06-23 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Yes India does have regulations. I have an extensive set of them in my office. What do you want to know exactly and I will see if I can give some help. Regards G. Rae Dulmage, B. Comm., President TelApprove Services Corporation (613) 257 3015 http://www.angelfire.com/on/telapprove George,

Re: Korean approvals

1999-06-17 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
? === === Graham Rae Dulmage grdulm...@sympatico.ca on 06/17/99 12:08:00 AM Please respond to t...@world.std.com To: t...@world.std.com cc:(bcc: Robert E. Heller/US-Corporate/3M/US) Subject: Re: Korean approvals Bill, If you

Re: Spread Spectum Frequencies

1999-05-29 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Kevin, There was a list in the 1997 Compliance Engineering Reference that covered Europe. I had worked out one for a number of other requirements for radio services Worldwide and have them filed away in my office so I will look through these and let you know what I find. I also found some on

Re: Korea

1999-05-13 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
In respect of type approval the Canada/Korea MRA for telecom and EMC does not require a local distributor/applicant. Regards G. Rae Dulmage, B. Comm., President: TelApprove Services Corporation (613) 257 3015 http://www.angelfire.com/on/telapprove sb...@ctlsg.creaf.com wrote: Hi David,

Re: Korea

1999-05-13 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
David, The safety authority in Korea is Kaitech. In North America there is one lab which is approved to do Korean Telecom and EMC plus Radio testing and approval. This is KTL Canada in Ottawa. They also handle the safety side as well. Suggest you contact Ms. Ruth Varley at 1-800-563-6336 Ext.

Re: Are Safety Approvals Required for Telephone Adapters?

1999-04-29 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
John, If I recall these items are classified as telephone accessories. Such companies as Leviton, Virginia Plastics etc. have listings for these. The concern is not with the overvoltage tests as much as with plastic rating, flamability, plating, insulation etc. I don't recall any application

Re: White neutrals in Europe

1999-04-19 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Both responses given so far are correct. It would be nice if we all eventually come to common technical agreement on common technical ground overtime. I worry that we sometimes push the technical aside and rush in with alternate opinions. In this case I see a lot of danger in shipping the

New Web Service

1999-04-14 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear All, You may be interested in the Standards Council of Canada Export Alert Service. This is a subscribable( no charge) service for WTO/GATT notices via e-mail and the provision by return request of the standards/regulations that are being proposed or passed by various countries. The Web

Re: Sound measurement

1999-04-09 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear Jim, Bruel and Kjaer http://www.bk.dk/; has over the years published a lot of articles on these kind of tests. In many cases they wrote or drove the test method and/or the standard. You can enquire of them what technical articles they have on test methods. They have offices around the world

Re: China

1999-04-03 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear Eric, I have a list in English of items requiring Chinese approval. I will pull it out of my files and check it after the Easter Holidays. Regards G. Rae Dulmage, B. Comm., President TelApprove Services Corporation (613) 257 3015 http://www.angelfire.com/on/TelApprove; Henning, Eric

Re: Spread Spectrum Systems for Singapore

1999-03-26 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Erik, My own understanding of localized on-site operation is that this refers to a factory complex or compound and also to within a large building. In some cases this might result in outdoor use but this should not be taken as unrestricted outdoor use. Given the concern about Spread Spectrum use

Re: Seeking PCs that Pass CISPR

1999-03-06 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear All, Having been management for many years I'm not sure how to take that comment. However let me jump into the fray a bit. I think we discussed this issue some months ago as part of a different topic. When I was at Certelecom we settled for a number of years on using DEC PC platforms for

Re: Pre-Compliance testing for radiated emissions using a current pro be

1999-02-12 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Doug, Tegam, Fischer and Pearson all make what would be called a current clamp as did Stoddard and Empire Devices when they were around. Absorption clamps such as Rohde and Schwarz and Schwarzbeck are not the same as the above products in the sense that they are measuring radiated emisssions

Re: CE and CSA

1998-12-23 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Lisa, This depends on who was the tester and issuer of your 61010 report. If it was your own company then CSA will need to retest. Your report will be of use. If however it is an agency such as UL or TUV or ETL etc. this may be treated differently provided that the product is the same in all

Re: MITI

1998-12-09 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Dear Mike, If you are talking about MITI of Japan it is likely that it is only a reference to a general requirement that is actually overseen by a different group, for example JIS, JETRO or VCCI, etc. I've also seen some Japanese manufacturers domestic purchase requirements for EMI/EMC/ESD and

Re: Argentina Approvals 2

1998-09-18 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
Scott, Rough Translation is as follows: Electronics Acoustics and ElectroAcoustics Electronic Apparatus Information Technology Equipment Audio and Video Equipment Incubators Vehicle Movement Speed Meters(this one can be translated different ways)

[Fwd: Re: Korea standard for drives]

1998-09-02 Thread Graham Rae Dulmage
---BeginMessage--- Dear Jason, The Korean EMI standard is CISPR 22 based. The test site must be 10 metres. IBM had a number of test sites approved for Korean EMI testing. Otherwise there is only 1 lab outside of Korea that is accredited for Korean EMI, EMC and Telecommunications approval. That is