Can I just up-issue my Declaration of Conformity to show compliance against the New Directive?
Some issues before doing this:
Analyse if product meets the latest harmonised EMC standards,
If standards to which product was previously tested are out of date then a comparison needs to be made for each individual test to determine if there are now more onerous requirements (for example your product may not meet all of the requirements for Radiated Immunity due to increases in frequency ranges for test and some test levels)
Depending on the results of this gap analysis it might be possible to base compliance upon technical rationale. If not then further testing may be required.
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If you've tested radiated immunity using the 1996 standard as reference, and only tested 3V/m, you cannot claim compliance to the 2006 standard (even as referenced by EN55024 Ed2.0 so >1GHz is not required) without retesting.
ReplyDeleteThere are significant changes to the method of calibrating the area of uniform field between the 1996 and 2002/2006 standards. For the same 16 points of 'raw' data, using the 2002/2006 calibration will produce a higher field strength compared to the 1996 method.
Harmonised EMC standards tests needs for each individual test to determine if there are now more onerous requirements.This post provide good technology against the New Directive.
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