RE: US Modem Safety

2003-12-01 Thread Roman, Dan
Alex, It won't pass the UL (or CSA) overvoltage testing. You need the 600V part for that. Dan From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of Alex McNeil Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:00 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: US Modem

IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society

2003-11-26 Thread Roman, Dan
The Product Safety Engineering Society's web site has been updated with some news items pertaining to the new society as well as a convenient applet to log you into the IEEE Communities site to access EMC-PSTC archives (use the EMC-PSTC Email Forum link in the sidebar). Visit the PSES web site

RE: Grounding

2003-11-14 Thread Roman, Dan
Ned, You are right, I could not find anything in recent ITE standards specifically stating that hinges are not allowed. Older standards like UL1459 did specifically state that bearings and hinges can not be used. I believe however that the onus would be on the manufacturer to prove that the

IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society

2003-10-09 Thread Roman, Dan
All renewing IEEE members and those considering membership in the IEEE who have an interest in Product Safety have a new society to consider, the Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES). Visit the PSES web site at www.ieee-pses.org. This new Society includes the theory, design, development

RE: PSTN + Signal Cable

2003-09-18 Thread Roman, Dan
Alex, Assuming your talking about 60950 and the signal lines are SELV you only need basic insulation, not reinforced, between TNV-3 and SELV. Distance through insulation does not come into play, just the dielectric test and voltage rating of the wire in this case. Dan Roman dan.ro...@ieee.org

Japanese J1

2003-04-02 Thread Roman, Dan
Hello list, Does anyone know if there is a difference between what some call J1 for Japan and ISDN running on T1 lines (e.g. NTT ISDN) in Japan? Is J1 used to refer to a non-ISDN line or T1 leased line? What's the typical J1 application? Are both covered by the Green Book? I looked around on

RE: PCBA Inspection Stamps

2002-12-09 Thread Roman, Dan
Doug, You could attach a process tag that goes with the board and have the inspectors and testers stamp that instead. I'm sure you could make your manufacturing processes accommodate the change and still maintain traceability. The product at the customer's site does not need the stamps on the

RE: docopocoss

2002-11-05 Thread Roman, Dan
Yes, with apparently only one user of this word on the face of the planet! :-) TLAs are bad enough, 10LAs I can't handle (guess that would be a TLA as well). Dan -Original Message- From: Rich Nute [mailto:ri...@sdd.hp.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:44 PM To:

RE: DSL Modems

2002-09-18 Thread Roman, Dan
All, When Verizon installed my ADSL service a couple years back they put in what they called a whole house filter, but it is actually a splitter/filter. I don't recall any Listing marks of any kind on the device. It was installed on the network side of the gray box on the side of my house, not

RE: thermocouple welder

2002-09-18 Thread Roman, Dan
Brian, I use a Hot Spot welder from DCC Corp. Works quite well and even comes with green tinted safety glasses (as suggested by an earlier poster). Here is a link to a description of it, I think they give company contact info as well: http://www.thomasregister.com/olc/dcc/hot2.htm Dan

NEBS - Bonding and Grounding

2002-09-12 Thread Roman, Dan
NEBS Gurus, Do the 1089 bonding and grounding DC short circuit tests apply down to the component level in a system or are they limited to the power supply or some other demarcation point? If it applies anywhere in the system it seems to me that you'd never finish testing. You'd have to test

RE: FCC Gives TV Makers Deadline

2002-08-08 Thread Roman, Dan
I guess these sets are essentially computers with an RF input so why not Class B? Throw in TiVo (sp?) and they're even have hard drives. If the FCC wants to speed deployment have them force my cable company to carry HDTV signals! Dan -Original Message- From: Gary McInturff

RE: creepage v breakdown voltage

2002-03-15 Thread Roman, Dan
I was looking into this a few weeks ago also and found similar results experimentally as other posters have mentioned. The only voltage per inch spec I was able to come up with was in the IPC specs but they were way out of whack! 0.12 mils per volt or more meaning that 2121 Vdc distance that

RE: Voltage Spikes on Power Lines etc

2002-03-14 Thread Roman, Dan
George, The ACTA for Part 68 has issued an advisory for Customer Information documentation for Part 68 devices. It suggests a warning be included suggesting the use of an AC surge arrestor. This is on page 7 of 8 of a PDF file downloadable from http://www.part68.org/. It claims that telephone

RE: CE - the abbreviation

2002-02-12 Thread Roman, Dan
Thanks, makes sense, but they do not mention what CB stands for even once on their web site, at least no place that I could find. Dan -Original Message- From: geor...@lexmark.com [mailto:geor...@lexmark.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:15 AM To: Roman, Dan Subject: RE: CE

RE: CE - the abbreviation

2002-02-12 Thread Roman, Dan
My understanding also but here is one I've never figured out, what does CB stand for in the CB Scheme of things? Dan -Original Message- From: Alan E Hutley [mailto:nutwoo...@nutwood.eu.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:37 AM To: am...@westin-emission.no;

RE: skinny power cords.

2001-10-25 Thread Roman, Dan
I agreed completely with Scott. A 6 to 9 foot 18AWG cord will handle well in excess of 20A for a short period of time without starting to smoke (heck, it'll handle close to in excess of 60A for a very very short time without bursting into flames--not that it was a good experience finding this

RE: Light Emission from Professional Photography Flashes

2001-10-19 Thread Roman, Dan
If there aren't standards there probably should be. I remember seeing a NOVA episode in which Dr. Harold Edgerton, inventor of the strobe, demonstrated a strobe similar to that used during WWII to photograph German positions from the air at night. He fired the strobe at a newspaper 3 feet away

RE: board scanning on the cheap (sort of)

2001-08-09 Thread Roman, Dan
Brent, You'd find a paper titled Constructing the Lagrangian of VLSI Devices from Near Field Measurements of the Electric and Magnetic Fields on page 129 of the IEEE 2000 Symposium record volume one very interesting. It lists some results using just such a measuring device. A description I

RE: EMI sniffer goggles

2001-08-08 Thread Roman, Dan
In a past job (10 years ago) another compliance engineer and myself were discussing how nice it would be to have EMI sunglasses while working on fixing a particularly noisy and troublesome piece of equipment. The idea was inspired by the X-ray glasses sold on the back cover of comic books.

RE: How Safe ???

2001-07-26 Thread Roman, Dan
Is that McDonald's below sea level? Just wondering how far over 212F/100C they could get the water to go! Anything over around 150F is scalding isn't it? Anything under 150F and coffee drinkers would complain the coffee is cold. Let's sue the coffee producers for coming up with a product that

RE: Oils for the 950 Hot Flaming Oil Test

2001-07-26 Thread Roman, Dan
Peter, Here is a link to the MSDS data sheet from the company I buy chemicals from. They have numerous other data sheets but only for the chemicals they sell. It lists synonyms for Kerosene which may help you locate other sources that go by another name.

RE: Copper Thieving

2001-01-19 Thread Roman, Dan
Capacitively. If your floating structure ends up being resonate at a fundamental or one of the harmonics it will become a very effective unintentional radiator. Dan -Original Message- From: David Gelfand [mailto:gelf...@memotec.com] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:34 PM To:

RE: Copper Thieving

2001-01-18 Thread Roman, Dan
I make them ground it with appropriately spaced vias. -Original Message- From: Perry Qu [mailto:perry...@alcatel.com] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:19 PM To: Roman, Dan Cc: 'Stephen Phillips'; rehel...@mmm.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org; DORIN OPREA Subject: Re: Copper Thieving

RE: Copper Thieving

2001-01-18 Thread Roman, Dan
Remember that you can also cause yourself all kinds of EMI headaches if you have electrically floating copper areas or patterns on the board. It has lead to many arguments with the CAD department over the years! -- Dan -Original Message- From: Stephen Phillips

RE: Thermocouple issues

2000-12-18 Thread Roman, Dan
I use either epoxy or a cement made out of water glass and kaolin powder. I have a thermocouple welder so I'm not too concerned about keeping them intact while removing them. -- Dan Roman, Compliance Engineer Dialogic®, an Intel Company 1515 Rt. Ten, Parsippany, NJ 07054

Job Opening: Regulatory Technician/Engineering Aide

2000-07-19 Thread Roman, Dan
Here's your chance to join Dialogic, an Intel subsidiary, in Parsippany New Jersey. As the leader in open computer telephony (CT), Dialogic provides the critical building blocks and technical services that enable customers to develop solutions serving the converging Internet and

RE: PDF file copy method

2000-07-18 Thread Roman, Dan
One thing not mentioned in all the posts on this subject is that if the document was scanned and not captured then the text is really graphics and would not be selectable as text. Thankfully most documents these days are created directly from the source document into a PDF using PDF Writer which

RE: NEAR/ FAR FIELD CORRELATION ISSUES

1999-06-18 Thread Roman, Dan
I also have been following this thread with interest, but even more practical and technically less challenging alternate methods of testing take too long for acceptance in my opinion. Forget near-field measurements with probes, I'd like to see quicker movement on acceptance of standards like