10 watts (was IEC 60950 Solar Cells)

2002-06-08 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Ted: it seems that the low voltage used in the application is being mistaken for low energy. Your garden variety alkaline manganese cell has such a low internal resistance that it behaves as a little bomb when shorted. Same with lithium battery technology. If the solar cell can

Re: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Ken Javor
class from a safety point of view as a high voltage section developed directly off the mains. -- From: Robert Wilson robert_wil...@tirsys.com To: Ron Pickard rpick...@hypercom.com, emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2002, 10:49 AM

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Ted Rook
2c it seems that the low voltage used in the application is being mistaken for low energy. Your garden variety alkaline manganese cell has such a low internal resistance that it behaves as a little bomb when shorted. Same with lithium battery technology. If the solar cell can put out 10W it

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread David_Sterner
, MIL-STD-810) solar intensity test level is 1120W/m^^2. David Sterner -Original Message- From: don_borow...@selinc.com [mailto:don_borow...@selinc.com] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:44 PM To: Andrew Carson Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells If I

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Don_Borowski
of some wavelengths (UV light through a good thick stratospheric ozone layer?). Andrew Carson andrew_car...@uk.xyratex.com on 06/07/2002 09:33:05 AM To: Don Borowski/SEL@SEL, emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org cc: Subject: RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells I thought the Suns Solar Intensity was 1kW

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Carson
-Original Message- From: don_borow...@selinc.com [mailto:don_borow...@selinc.com] Sent: 07 June 2002 15:09 To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells For the power limit part of the problem, a good rule of thumb to use for solar intensity is 1 kW per square

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Wilson
:26 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: IEC 60950 Solar Cells To all, First, a little background. I have been asked a question that I did not know the answer to, which relates to a potential new product. As I understand it, this device will be relatively small, consume very little power

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Don_Borowski
Borowski/SEL) Subject: RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells Ron Some help, I hope, to your questions. Would this small LCD display device even be required to be evaluated to IEC 60950 3rd Edition or to IEC 60950-1? This depends on what you are trying to achieve, good company practices, or a countries

RE: IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Carson
[mailto:rpick...@hypercom.com] Sent: 06 June 2002 23:26 To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: IEC 60950 Solar Cells To all, First, a little background. I have been asked a question that I did not know the answer to, which relates to a potential new product. As I understand it, this device

IEC 60950 Solar Cells

2002-06-06 Thread Ron Pickard
To all, First, a little background. I have been asked a question that I did not know the answer to, which relates to a potential new product. As I understand it, this device will be relatively small, consume very little power and will only display particular information depending on the