EMC’ing Outside the Box
For those of you who subscribe to InCompliance magazine (well done, recommended, link here for details) for great articles on EMC, no doubt you’ve read their great “Banana Skins” column. It’s a snapshot of the various odd situations that come up in electromagnetics, including the “Pop-up toasters in Dorset speak Russian,” or “Poorly bonded aircraft surfaces cause loss of navigation and communication in Rain.” As the column notes, the original column started publishing in 1998 in the EMC Journal, and InCompliance has permission from Alan E. Hutley (publisher of the EMC Journal) to continue the tradition.
Keith Armstrong (Cherry Clough Consultants Ltd.) has done a great job compiling the Banana Skin columns. You can find the EMC Journal ones here. They are great examples of why developing and enforcing EMC regulations are necessary, and why regulations always require updating…so that the outliers don’t remain outliers and the world becomes a safer place. There’s also sometimes humor in the “fringe” areas of EMC. Just check out EMI Story 763. Enjoy!
This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you’re on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable…Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself.
Rod Serling
A View From the Geek Seats 