Have any good EMC requirement resources?
Have any good EMC requirement resources?
(OP)
Does anyone have any good resources for information about global EMC (electromagnetic compliance) requirements? I'm in the USA, but the consumer electronics company that I works for ships products around the world. However, trying to find out what testing is required is painful. There seems to be very little centralized information out there. I can't find magazines or books or websites. I need an "EMC regulations for dummies" type of resource!
There used to be a couple of magazines (Conformity, CE magazine), but they seem to have gone out of business because their websites show the "current issue" to be quite old.
I see that there's an EMC forum here on Eng-tips, but there hasn't been any activity in quite a while, which is why I'm posting here.
Any places that I should be looking?
Thanks,
Glenn
There used to be a couple of magazines (Conformity, CE magazine), but they seem to have gone out of business because their websites show the "current issue" to be quite old.
I see that there's an EMC forum here on Eng-tips, but there hasn't been any activity in quite a while, which is why I'm posting here.
Any places that I should be looking?
Thanks,
Glenn





RE: Have any good EMC requirement resources?
has a lot of EMC info.
Peter
RE: Have any good EMC requirement resources?
Since you would probably have to hire a test house anyway, why not partner-up early with one?
RE: Have any good EMC requirement resources?
VE1BLL, we do have a number of test houses that I could call to find out some info, but I don't want to have to call them for every single question. Where do test houses get their info on global EMC regs? Oh, and what are these E3 qualifications that you mention?
RE: Have any good EMC requirement resources?
I just checked of the FCC website starting from the top, and it's less than useful. But my google-fu leads to this:
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/Welcome.html
The Industry Canada website is a breeze:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ceb-bhst.nsf/eng/home
http://www
And this is interesting (!) and may be very helpful:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mra-arm.nsf/eng/home
My suggestion about partnering early is that if you're going to pay eg. $50k for a complete E3 test qualification program, it's easy to add another eg. $5k to the contract to cover a week of expert advice. And that advice would probably help to reduce the risk of another round of testing.
In my line of work, we have E3 experts on staff. And the requirements, such as MIL-STD-461, are handed to us on a silver platter. And the resultant E3 reports (from the test houses) look like telephone books.