Agilent Technologies has introduced the E5063A PCB Analyzer for printed circuit board impedance testing in manufacturing. Tighter impedance tolerance is a direct result of increasing data rates, the company says, and more accurate impedance test solutions for PCB manufacturing are now required to achieve signal integrity. To meet that demand, the E5063A PCB Analyzer offers … [Read more...]
Chip Fuses for Low Loss and Overcurrent Protection
Schurter, a manufacturer of fuses, connectors, circuit breakers, input systems and EMC products, now offers a broad range of chip fuses developed specially for low-loss and precise overcurrent protection in secondary circuitry. Ideal for a wide range of applications such as mobile and battery-operated devices in sensor technology and industrial electronics, the Schurter chip … [Read more...]
EN 12016:2013: EMC – Product Family Standard for Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks – Immunity
From the European Committee for Standardization: "This European Standard specifies the immunity performance criteria and test levels for apparatus used in lifts, escalators and moving walks which are intended to be permanently installed in buildings including the basic safety requirements in regard to their electromagnetic environment. These levels represent essential EMC … [Read more...]
Stand-Alone Generator for Slow Damped Oscillatory Wave Testing
Teseq, a manufacturer of EMC emission and immunity testing instrumentation, has released the NSG 3040-SOW, a new stand-alone generator for slow damped oscillatory wave testing in single phase equipment up to 270 V and 16 A. Ideal for use by power stations, substations, electric meter manufacturers, relays and switch manufacturers as well as EMC testing labs, the NSG 3040-SOW … [Read more...]
Wireless Molecular Network Uses Alcohol to Send Text Messages
Scientists have successfully transmitted a text message via the world’s first wireless molecular network in a breakthrough that could lead to better methods of sending data in challenging underground or underwater environments where electromagnetic waves cannot be used. To send their message, researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK and the York University in Canada … [Read more...]
Shielding Materials Protect Electronics in Radiation-Rich Environments
Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have announced the development of new shielding materials to protect sensitive electronics from damage in high-radiation environments such as nuclear power plants, particle accelerators and medical applications. According to Jefferson engineers Paul Brindza and Bert Metzger, the three … [Read more...]
New High Performance Passive Harmonic Filter Outperforms Active Filters
MIRUS International has introduced the LINEATOR High Performance (HP), a new high performance advanced universal harmonic filter (AUHF) (AUHF). Designed to enable efficiency gains of at least 2 percent, The LINEATOR is free of high frequency harmonics and noise issues associated with inverters used in active solutions. Unlike active front ends (AFE) and active harmonic filters … [Read more...]
Electrically Conductive Coatings Provide EMI Shielding
EMI shielding specialist Central Coating Co. Inc. has released two new materials for EMI shielding applications. The first material is an electrically-conductive, one-component, nickel-filled acrylic coating ideal for application on plastics to provide modest EMI shielding and anti-static protection for electronic enclosures and assemblies where abrasion resistance and coating … [Read more...]
Power Grid, Mains Filtering and Power Line Communications… A Root Cause for Incompatibilities?
This article has been translated from Dutch to English. It can be found in its original language in the 2014 Europe EMC Guide. Mart Coenen, Owner, EMCMCC, the Netherlands The power grid is intentionally meant to distribute electrical energy at the mains frequency, as produced by the electricity generating plants, towards the end-users. The three-phase low-voltage distribution … [Read more...]
Assemblies Provide EMI/RFI Protection for High-Powered Switching and Rugged Applications
Interconnect solutions provider Molex Inc. has released its new Woodhead MAX-LOC Plus Shielded Cord-Grip assemblies featuring a nickel-plated aluminum housing and shielding ring for EMI/RFI protection. According to the company, the assemblies enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users to connect high-power electrical currents directly to an application with … [Read more...]