EMC Engineering: Create a Maintenance and Troubleshooting Kit

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The EMC Kit consists of...

  • Equipment roller case
  • Extra cables, adapters, etc.
  • Tool kit
  • Digital Multimeter DMM
  • Tin can antenna
  • Line filter
  • Harmonic comb generator
  • Ferrites (chokes, cores, etc.)
  • Wrist strap
  • ESD (electrostatic discharge) meter
  • ESD (electrostatic discharge) generator
  • Power adapters
  • Spectrum analyzer
  • Sniffer probe set
  • Bow-tie antenna
  • Current probe
  • Broadband/Wideband preamplifier


Above: A "home-made" EMC engineering / maintenance / troubleshooting kit.

The most-important Tools of the EMC Maintenance and Troubleshooting Kit, shown above

  • Current Probe
  • Spectrum Analyzer
  • E- and H-Field probes
  • Wideband Preamplifier
  • Conductivity Probe
  • Small Transmitter

       

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How can an EMC maintenance and troubleshooting kit be used?

1. Finding radiated emission sources on PCBs (printed circuit boards)

2. Finding leaky seams in various enclosures

3. Measuring cable common-mode currents and radiation

4. Doing fast “A-B” comparisons for proposed design changes

5. Detemining immunity to radiated and ESD (electrostatic discharge)

6. Very portable ... might be used as a mini “EMC crash cart”

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Updated: Wednesday, 2007-10-03 1:44 PST