Required separation between item with 3V/m radiated immunity and Class A (industrial) emissions?

2002-01-10 Thread Peter . Poulos
wer) frequency magnetic fields are emitted; Does anyone have any experience to suggest that the minimum separation of 1m under theses conditions would not be adequate? Thanks, Peter Poulos Design Engineer Foxboro Transportation (Invensys Rail Systems Australia) -

Standard for EM Immunity for cardiac pacemakers?

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Poulos
Can anyone point me in the direction of any standards that would cover the electromagnetic immunity requirements for cardiac pacemakers? The focus of my interest is for pacemakers that are likely to be found in Hong Kong or southern China. The closest I've found with my own hunting so far i

Re: Transformer isolation (military)

2001-03-29 Thread Peter Poulos
Hi Dave. According to the documents on the DoD ASSIST-Quick Search web site, there are no longer any sections of MIL-T-27 that are active. They are all either marked inactive or cancelled. Most are available for viewing if you want to find out what tests the transformer was actually designed

IEC 61326 ammendment 2 - what does it cover?

2001-03-20 Thread Peter Poulos
Hi Folks. Been having hassles ordering a copy of ammendment 2 for IEC 61326-1 Was wondering if anyone can tell me the upshot of the changes. Regards, Peter Poulos --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc

Re: Safety of Add on components

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Poulos
Hi Brian. I'd agree with the gist of Oscar's comments. To paraphrase Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) - everyone is an idiot for at least part of each day. I'd also like to add though, that even if the people you expect to have fitting the components are technically competent, I'd say there

Re: Surge testing.

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Poulos
IEEE C62.41-1991 has some good background information on rates and severity of power surges - graphs for surge peak vs rate of occurrence etc. At 09:34 AM 20/10/2000, Cameron O'phee wrote: Hi all, I would like to know if anyone could point me to any articles or studies of real world mains

RE: Near Field Versus Far Field

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Poulos
e: 817-917-5021 michael.sundst...@nokia.com amateur call: KB5UKT -Original Message- From: EXT Peter Poulos [mailto:pet...@foxboro.com.au] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:38 AM To: marti...@appliedbiosystems.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Near Field Versus Far Field Hi Joe.

RE: Near Field Versus Far Field

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Poulos
note: The views, opinions and information expressed and/or contained herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of Foxboro, the organisation/s through which this communication was transmitted nor any other third party, unless explicitly stated so. Peter Poulos (Hardware Design Engineer)

Re: Near Field Versus Far Field

2000-09-15 Thread Peter Poulos
of this kind of measurement than for those taken in the near field. Although the results would only be ball-park, that's often all you need anyway. Given the expense of official OATS testing (unless your company happens

Magnetic field immunity in the Arctic regions

2000-01-25 Thread Peter Poulos
Hi folks. Has anyone had experience with demonstrating immunity to magnetic fields that can be expected in the Arctic / north pole regions? I'm trying to find out what level of magnetic fields can be expected as a worse case in order to demonstrate immunity of some electronic equipment. Is anyo

Re: ESD Troubleshooting

1999-04-01 Thread Peter Poulos
views of Foxboro, the organisation/s through which this communication was transmitted nor any other third party, unless explicitly stated so. Peter Poulos (Hardware Design Engineer) Foxboro Australia 42 McKechnie Drive, Eight Mile Plains, QLD, Australia 4113 Tel:+61 (07) 3340 2118 Fax: +61

EMC for automation & control - Electricity utilities (UNIPEDE)

1999-03-30 Thread Peter Poulos
third party, unless explicitly stated so. Peter Poulos (Hardware Design Engineer) Foxboro Australia 42 McKechnie Drive, Eight Mile Plains, QLD, Australia 4113 Tel:+61 (07) 3340 2118 Fax: +61 (07) 3340 2100 E-mail:pet...@foxboro.com.au - This message is coming from the emc-pstc discus

Re: IEC 1010-1 report form

1998-01-19 Thread Peter Poulos
Hi Kim. IEC 61010-3-1:1997 (Conformity verification report for IEC 61010-1) is a proforma report for testing to IEC 1010-1. The document comes supplied both as a hard-copy and on floppy disk in MS Word format. Regards, Peter Poulos At 01:50 PM 1/16/98 -0100, you wrote: >Can anyone help

Question on generic IEC test conditions

1997-09-26 Thread Peter Poulos
by a cyclone or tornado, the ambient conditions will be within the range for barometric pressure? Curiously, Pete. - Opinions stated above are not necessarily those of my employer. Peter Poulos (Hardware Design Engineer) Foxbor

MIL-STD-461,462

1997-08-01 Thread Peter Poulos
Greetings. Does anyone know of an EMC test laboratory in Australia which has experience in testing to MIL-STD-461 and/or MIL-STD-462 (Emissions & Susceptibility tests)? Sincerely, Peter Poulos ===== Peter Poulos Hardware Development Engineer Foxboro-L&N (Australia)

EN61010-1/IEC 664 Installation Category

1997-07-01 Thread Peter Poulos
with EN61010-1 or IEC 664 who can offer advice? Thanks in advance, Peter Poulos Hardware Development Engineer Foxboro-L&N (Australia) Ph: +61 7 3340 2118

EN61010-1/IEC1010-1 Resistance to heat of insulating material

1997-06-16 Thread Peter Poulos
Has anyone had experience in testing insulating material to the ISO 306 method A ("Thermoplastic materials - Determination of Vicat softening temperature") referenced in Section 10.3 of BS EN 61010-1:1993? Can anyone fill me in on what this test actually involves? Regards, Pe

Re: ITE approvals for Australia

1997-03-27 Thread Peter Poulos
Charles, For info on what's required for the C-Tick, I suggest you contact the SMA (Spectrum Management Agency ). They have a web site which may help (http://www.sma.gov.au) or you can email them at e...@sma.gov.au. Regards, Peter Poulos Hardware Development Engineer Foxboro-L&N At 1

Re: ITE approvals for Australia

1997-03-27 Thread Peter Poulos
Charles, For info on what's required for the C-Tick, I suggest you contact the SMA (Spectrum Management Agency ). They have a web site which may help (http://www.sma.gov.au) or you can email them at e...@sma.gov.au. Regards, Peter Poulos Hardware Development Engineer Foxboro-L&N At 1