Expired calculations for the Uniform Field Area
Posted: 30 Aug 2011, 21:28
Why are the Uniform Field Area calculations of expired standards not removed?
The calculation methods for the old standards (like EN 61000-4-3:1995) cannot be removed from RadiMation® due to the following reasons:
1.A number of product standards do mention basic standards and there year of issue, for the way of performing radiated immunity tests. As long as the product standards are not changed one should use the 'old' basic standard as well. Although many lab's do use the latest version of the basic standard for all product standards (while it is much more convenient to use only one version of the EN61000-4-3), when there is doubt about the test results, one should use the harmonized standard and it's associated basic standard as mentioned in the product standard.
2.A number of customers simply require the old methods, for the reasons mentioned above, or while they want to be able to perform verification tests on old products