Re: [PSES] power converters onboard yachts

2024-09-17 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hello Ralph, Has anybody mentioned the EN 60945 standard to you? Clauses 9 & 10 are for EMC, however it covers a lot of other things in that standard for electrical equipment on ships. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around

Re: [PSES] Radiated Emissions - How many points to QP?

2024-04-05 Thread Larry K. Stillings
;t know by how much. Is it really that much more work to take a QP, or maybe the automation software doesn't support that? We're old school and still take the data manually and I have the guys always take both (peak and quasi-peak). Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Lo

Re: [PSES] 863MHz - Short Range Devices

2024-04-02 Thread Larry K. Stillings
ERC 70-03 which I always go back to since that is the document that demonstrates what frequency ranges have been adopted. See Annex I, page 8. https://docdb.cept.org/download/4435 Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World

Re: [PSES] 863MHz - Short Range Devices

2024-04-02 Thread Larry K. Stillings
now the 99% OBW is 200 kHz, then I would believe you'd need a center frequency of ~863.11 MHz, because it would be half of the OBW, or the edge of the signal would be at 863.01 MHz with a 863.11 MHz center frequency. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally

Re: [PSES] ISED Requirements for Self-Declaration of Conformity

2024-02-22 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hi Brian, You will find similar procedures for Permissive Changes in ISED RSP-100 https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/spectrum-management-telecommunications/en/devices-and-equipment/radio-standards-procedures-rsp/rsp-100-certification-radio-apparatus-and-broadcasting-equipment Larry K. Stillings

Re: [PSES] ANSI 63.10 2020 Clause 7.6.3 Pulsed Emissions

2024-01-23 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hi John, Ok thanks. I’m mixing power (Watts) vs. voltage and/or current. If I was dealing in units of Watts, then that is where the 10 * log would come into play because I’ve already “squared” Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products

[PSES] ANSI 63.10 2020 Clause 7.6.3 Pulsed Emissions

2024-01-23 Thread Larry K. Stillings
the time isn't that a 20 dB reduction? Or for some reason because it is a pulsed emission you are allowed to use 20 * log and have a 20 dB reduction for a 10% duty cycle or less because anything greater than 20 dB is the maximum allowable correction / reduction for a pulsed emission?

Re: [PSES] thoughts on ESD test lab problems

2023-08-11 Thread Larry K. Stillings
abs are bad and/or incompetent. How about in the future you find a different way to word things. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357

Re: [PSES] 6dB pad

2023-07-17 Thread Larry K. Stillings
fitted with an attenuator at the antenna’s connector to meet these requirements. We found that a 4 dB attenuator was needed on one style 30 – 2000 MHz antenna and a 5 dB was needed on another style antenna with the same frequency range. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally

Re: [PSES] Fwd: [PSES] FCC Part B questions

2023-07-10 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hi John, I believe you mean EN 50715:2022 https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=305:110:0FSP_ORG_ID,FSP_PROJECT,FSP_LANG_ID:1258289,68318,25&cs=1F3EE324B714B7C6895A8362CA3F1B47B Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Ar

Re: [PSES] Antenna tilting or bore sighting for radiated emissions

2023-03-29 Thread Larry K. Stillings
turntable at a 3 meter distance so it is within its ½ power beamwidth at all times as it travels up and down the antenna mast. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International

Re: [PSES] FCC Part 15.205 Restricted Bands of operation: Does Part 15.205 apply to Parts 15.207 and 15.209?

2022-06-23 Thread Larry K. Stillings
is most likely found in ANSI C63.10 2013 as that speaks to using a dummy load, etc. also searching the FCC KDB (Knowledge DataBase) and see if your question has already been asked and answered based on a previous inquiry which can be done here. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/kdb/index.cfm Larry K

Re: [PSES] Short Range Device RED standard?

2022-04-28 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Ryan, You should also be looking at ETSI EN 303 446-1 or -2 for guidance on integrating the radio module into your end product. The FCC has similar KDBs on the subject for USA deployment. And also be aware of new cyber security rules being developed, ETSI EN 303 645 Larry K. Stillings

Re: [PSES] FCC Requirements for mobile industrial robots

2022-03-07 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Doug, I would think FCC Part 15 Subpart B, Class A is applicable for the rest of the system, some say its exempt, I would go on the side of caution and see if it will me Class A. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World

Re: [PSES] Korean Standard KS X 3123

2021-11-10 Thread Larry K. Stillings
w.do?nb_seq=2896&cpage=2&nb_type=6&searchCon=&searchTxt=&sortOrder= Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357 Main Str

Re: [PSES] EMC/EMI Cables

2021-04-28 Thread Larry K. Stillings
L-Com seems to have a good understanding on how to construct HDMI cables with 360 shields https://www.l-com.com/audio-video-hdmi-cable-assemblies Known problem for quite some time now Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the

Re: [PSES] 13.56 MHz NFC WLC ETSI Standard?

2021-04-23 Thread Larry K. Stillings
l the charging and NFC be strictly used for WPT. If I am reading things correctly there is a static mode of operation and a negotiated mode of operation, so you would need to know which technology is being used to determine what standards applies. Thanks. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc.

Re: [PSES] 13.56 MHz NFC WLC ETSI Standard?

2021-04-23 Thread Larry K. Stillings
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[PSES] 13.56 MHz NFC WLC ETSI Standard?

2021-04-23 Thread Larry K. Stillings
ETSI EN 303 417 standard in a future edition, as the scope still stops with the 6.78 MHz band. Or maybe develop a new standard all together or add a new part to EN 300 330 for NFC WLC technology? Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products

Re: [PSES] ICNIRP 2020 Guidelines

2020-09-02 Thread Larry K. Stillings
-sts.com/en/wideband-emf/radman-2-xt-radman-2-lt/ Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357 Main Street Sandown, NH 03873 (603) 887 3903 Fax

Re: [PSES] Small loop antenna

2020-07-13 Thread Larry K. Stillings
John, ETS Lindgren has some smaller loop antennas in their product line. http://www.ets-lindgren.com/products/antennas/loops Schwarzbeck has some options as well http://schwarzbeck.de/en/antennas/loop-antennas.html Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and

[PSES] Electronic Balloting/Voting Equipment EMC Requirements

2020-04-06 Thread Larry K. Stillings
although it calls out the IEC 61000-4-x series, the standards do not specify test levels for those IEC standards. Thank you in advance. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking

Re: [PSES] Floor Standing Metal Detector Immunity Testing

2020-01-28 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hi Charlie, Thanks for your input. It's a floor standing device for entrance into buildings, etc. It is rather large (roughly 2 Meters in height) and designed to cover two entrances simultaneously. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch

[PSES] Floor Standing Metal Detector Immunity Testing

2020-01-28 Thread Larry K. Stillings
has worked on one of these and has an elegant solution. One thought I had was to line the ground plane with ferrite tile floor / wall panel squares (2' x 2' kind e.g 600mm x 600mm), but where they work at such low frequency I assumed that wouldn't help. Larry K. Stillings Compliance

Re: [PSES] 80/80 rule

2019-11-18 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hi John, There is an IEEE presentation dated 1992, but you may already be aware of that? Unfortunately my IEEE account doesn't have access to that document, it might have some useful references. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/168355 Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc.

Re: [PSES] FCC regulatory statements

2019-10-31 Thread Larry K. Stillings
. The CFL light bulb issue is well known, but not much has been done that I have observed, other than the selling of LED bulbs to replace them 😉 Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE

Re: [PSES] Conducted rf emissions measurements from network ports

2019-05-29 Thread Larry K. Stillings
whatever is converting the 12 VDC from 120 VAC, 60 Hz, customer supplied or representative sample of what the customer suggests to be used with their product. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom

Re: [PSES] RED EU radio restrictions

2019-03-27 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Mark, The document you are looking for is REC 70-03 found here. This will cover both technology and country restrictions by Frequency Band. https://www.ecodocdb.dk/download/25c41779-cd6e/Rec7003.pdf Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch

[PSES] US & UK Agree to Continue MRA Agreement

2019-02-15 Thread Larry K. Stillings
All, I saw this come by LinkedIn Eurofins York page. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-usa-agree-to-continue-mutual-r ecognition-agreement Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless

[PSES] IEC 61000-4-5 Surge Testing Single plug vs. multiple plug system

2019-01-02 Thread Larry K. Stillings
ions, however I would like to focus on the surge testing at the moment. I am pretty sure at least one of the standards says conducted emissions shall be tested on each port individually, but we don't need to go there right now ;-) Thoughts when you get responses like this? Larry K. Stillings

Re: [PSES] product marking detail for FCC marking

2018-12-10 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Pete, I assume you are speaking about a device that would be using an FCC ID. Grantee Codes specifically don't use "1" ones or "0" zeros so that there is not confusion with capital I or letter o, however there is no restriction on what is used in the product code. To answer your question, if yo

Re: [PSES] ETSI EN 302 066-2 & the RED

2018-07-09 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Hi Chet, ETSI did publish EN 302 066 V2.1.1 (2017-01) for application under the RED, and contains receiver requirements as specified in TS 103 361 V1.1.1 (2016-03) Clause 9. Why it was not published as a harmonized standard under the RED is a good question and I assume only a handful of peo

Re: [PSES] FCC Updates Rules for Authorization of Radio Frequency Devices

2017-07-26 Thread Larry K. Stillings
All, So it looks like I misunderstood the FCC press release. This has not been published in the Federal Register and also has to be approved by the OMB. So nothing is actually official yet, but the word "soon" was used. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Loc

[PSES] FCC Updates Rules for Authorization of Radio Frequency Devices

2017-07-14 Thread Larry K. Stillings
in 90 Days or October 12, 2017 Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357 Main Street Sandown, NH 03873 (603) 887 3903 Fax 887-6445

Re: [PSES] RED ZigBee 6 GHz Immunity Testing: Technical Risk?

2017-06-09 Thread Larry K. Stillings
the lower frequencies (up to 2.7 GHz) are still passing up to 6 GHz. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357 Main Street Sandown

Re: [PSES] EN 55020

2017-02-17 Thread Larry K. Stillings
. Right now the only Immunity standards that are to be published by ETSI under the RED for a device with Bluetooth is EN 301 489-1 V2.1.1 and EN 301 489-17 V3.1.1. So the product would need to be in compliance with those. I'm sure others here can provide further insight. Larry K. Stil

Re: [PSES] Measurement Uncertainty Above 18 GHz

2016-10-31 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Grace, There are ETSI standards such as TS 103 051 that addresses MU up to 100 GHz and TS 103 052 which addresses radiated measurement sites up to 100 GHz. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless

Re: [PSES] Fire ants

2016-09-15 Thread Larry K. Stillings
You forgot pay tolls on a freeway Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357 Main Street Sandown, NH 03873 (603) 887 3903 Fax 887

Re: [PSES] Screened room mains filter

2016-06-14 Thread Larry K. Stillings
they use a rubber gasket to keep the two metal surfaces inside and outside of the chamber isolated when installing a brass waveguide feed-through pipe penetration ? I am just assuming this would defeat the purpose of having a 3 line filter. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Tes

Re: [PSES] Handheld or portable voltmeter/ammeter with built-in and adjustable limit function with audible alarm

2016-05-31 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Ken, This DROK meter says it can do it, I'm not sure how susceptible it is however. http://www.amazon.com/DROK-Multimeter-Measuring-Resistors-Transformer/dp /B015XVU1J0 Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the

Re: [PSES] EU OJ today

2016-05-13 Thread Larry K. Stillings
All, On another note, does anyone know why in the In-Vitro diagnostic directive EN 61326-2-6, is still referencing the 2006 edition, and not the 2013 edition? Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC

Re: [PSES] Source for Quality Video Cables

2016-03-02 Thread Larry K. Stillings
ed shielded non terminated cable or drain wire to the shell cable to show them the difference that all cables are not created equal when it comes to radiated emissions. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wir

Re: [PSES] 47 CFR Part 15 Subpart B / ICES-003 applicable/mandatory for an industrial personal computer?

2016-02-18 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Ken, I think FCC Document OET 62 from the 1990's gives a pretty good overview of the classes, exemptions etc. Instead of me just reciting it, you can read it here https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet62/oet62rev.pdf Larry K. Stil

Re: [PSES] QP Detector - how to confirm accuracy & functionality

2015-10-19 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Charles, Schwarzbeck sells a QP measuring box, as I have seen one used by my calibration company to verify our QP adapters. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking

[PSES] CISPR 22 & I/O Ports used for configuration only

2015-03-12 Thread Larry K. Stillings
then if the port is not populated during the testing, does that port have to be somehow "covered" so that port cannot be used in the field. Thank you in advance. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the W

Re: [PSES] Where to find National Deviations in English?

2015-02-06 Thread Larry K. Stillings
cond dwell time, but as far as I know it is required. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals - Product Safety 357 Main Street Sandown, NH 03873 (603) 887

Re: [PSES] TTE Equipment and R&TTE Directive

2014-11-19 Thread Larry K. Stillings
21-x standards, but that is always a financial / business decision on what the risk is of performing no testing. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International Approvals -

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-04 Thread Larry K. Stillings
All, And just to comment further on this. If the fabric really did work, then your battery would be dead because it would be in constant high power mode trying to find an available cell tower, which means each time you placed it in this magic fabric you would have to turn your phone off. Now

Re: [PSES] RF shielding in clothing.

2014-09-04 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Doug, Until the article also said it blocked 13.56 MHz (RFID), it was Almost believable. But no way does “police grade shielding fabric” whatever that nonsense means blocks 13.56 to 2.4 GHz. You’d be better off wrapping your cell phone in aluminum foil, and might as well wear a hat made

Re: [PSES] EN-61000-6-4

2014-06-20 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Andy, Because to my knowledge, telecommunications ports have never caused any interference ;-) I'm sure someone else has a better answer. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom

[PSES] EN 61326-1:2006 Immunity Testing with Multiple Power Cords

2014-02-18 Thread Larry K. Stillings
power strip and perform the testing once. Any guidance or references to clauses in standards is greatly appreciated. Larry K. Stillings Compliance Worldwide, Inc. Test Locally, Sell Globally and Launch Your Products Around the World! FCC - Wireless - Telecom - CE Marking - International

Re: [PSES] FCC draft comments on WiFi operation in channels 12 and 13

2014-01-30 Thread Larry K. Stillings
Curt, I am not sure if I understand your question, but maybe. The devices can passively scan, but to operate on channels 12 or 13 would most likely be a violation of FCC rules unless the power on those channels were 1 mW or less. The peak power at the band edge of 2483.5 MHz is 74 dBuV/m when mea