Banana Skins #358-364
Operating my personal document shredder crashes my digital TV set-top box, although it is 5 metres away. Toggling the on/off button on the set-top box restores normal operation.
EMI Debugging with Oscilloscopes
EMI debugging including localizing intermittent failures can be frustrating without an appropriate strategy. Discover in this webinar the fundamentals of practical EMI/EMC design and troubleshooting of electronic circuits, using state-of-the-art scopes to analyze your signals in both the time and frequency domains.
How EMI Filters Are Specified For RF Performance
Don’t overlook the fact that EMI filters can be used to prevent unwanted RF noise (such as electrical fast transient burst, conducted RF, and some surges) from entering susceptible devices.
Banana Skins – November 2021 (#354-357)
In the kitchen we have a radio/tape/cd and recently the tapes have been playing with very poor sound quality.
System-Level Grounding
Grounding is often viewed from separate points of view - safety, ESD, or EMI. This article combines all these aspects together so that practitioners can address grounding at the factories and in the laboratories in a comprehensive way.
Banana Skins – August 2021 (#347-353)
Cellular telephones can interfere with medical equipment – Mayo Clinic concludes
Banana Skins – July 2021 (#342-346)
Major news outlets in the Philadelphia metropolitan area report that the head of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has called on city officials to replace the two-and-a-half year old Motorola police radio system because of repeated communications failures.
The Relationship Between EMI/EMC and ESD
The 2020 EOS/ESD Symposium featured a new EMC Special Session, organized in cooperation between the EMC Society and EOS/ESD Association. This Special Session was planned to emphasize the relationship between EMI/EMC and ESD.
Banana Skins – June 2021 (#333-341)
The rear-screen heater in my BMW 3-Series causes so much interference when switched on that it’s impossible to listen to the car radio.
Banana Skins – May 2021 (#330-332)
Chris van Rossman of Corvallis Oregon turned on his do-everything combo TV and got a big surprise—the police, the Civil Air Patrol, and the County Search and Rescue Officers knocked on his door.