Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-08 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Thanks to all who replied and to John for making me laugh. Cheers, Neven From: John Woodgate j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 8:37:27 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews

Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-08 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
In message 001001ca7821$8cbeaa40$d600a...@tamuracorp.com, dated Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Brian O'Connell oconne...@tamuracorp.com writes: But be careful, there are some cheap designs that use the chokes to 'decouple' the DC bus from mains/rectifier. Some units could go crazy an self destruct under

RE: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-08 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Of Derek Walton Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:59 AM To: Brent DeWitt Cc: Ken Wyatt; EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews? I second Brents comments. If you want to have something cheap and cheerful, just use an off

Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-08 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews? Hi Neven, I'm unaware of commercial site sources that can get down to kHz, however, I should think that would be easy to build yourself. Just use poor EMC techniques (fast edge speeds, etc.)! I've also reviewed a couple

Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-08 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
home about of course. Regards, Brent DeWitt Framingham, MA -Original Message- From: Ken Wyatt Sent: Dec 7, 2009 7:43 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews? Hi

RE: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-08 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
. Regards, James From: Neven Pischl [mailto:neve...@comcast.net] Sent: 08 December 2009 01:01 To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews? Thanks Ken, Even if it is down to ~MHz it would be OK, I could even

Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-07 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
doing it vs. buying something off the shelf. Neven From: Ken Wyatt k...@emc-seminars.com To: neve...@comcast.net Cc: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 4:43:39 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews? Hi

Re: [PSES] Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-07 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Hi Neven, I'm unaware of commercial site sources that can get down to kHz, however, I should think that would be easy to build yourself. Just use poor EMC techniques (fast edge speeds, etc.)! I've also reviewed a couple of commercial harmonic comb generators by AET - one of which was just a

Reference RF Source - Recommendations/reviews?

2009-12-07 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
(This ties to a previous thread on site comparison) I am considering getting a reference RF-source for two purposes: 1) Site/setup confidence check 2) Site comparison (by coupling it to a cabled-up DUT) My immediate interest is ~100 kHz up to 1-2 GHz, but I am also interested to use