Troubleshooting Emi Problems: Concepts, Techniques, and Solutions

EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers provides the 'recipe' for identifying why products fail to meet EMI/EMC regulatory standards. It also outlines techniques for tracking the noise source, and discovering the coupling mechanism, that is causing the undesired effects.

This title gives examples of simple, easily implemented, and inexpensive troubleshooting tools that can be built by the engineer or technician, and uses methods that require only a basic understanding of electromagnetic theory and a minimal background in EMI/EMC.

It will show the engineer and technician how to develop a process for troubleshooting using a straightforward approach in solving what may seem like a rather complicated problem at first. It will provide guidelines on how to approach an EMI failure, things to try, how to choose the right parts and balance cost, performance, and schedule.

This book tells readers trying to solve EMI problems what to do and how to do it.

Kenneth Wyatt holds degrees in biology and electronic engineering and worked as a product development engineer for 10 years at various aerospace firms ranging from DC-DC power converters to RF and microwave systems for shipboard and space systems. He worked for over 20 years as an EMC engineer for Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies in Colorado Springs. He is currently an independent consultant with Wyatt Technical Services. A prolific author and presenter, he has generated extensive content on: design of comb generators; DIY near-field and current probes; and the EMC design of products. He has been published in magazines such as: Interference Technology, Test and Measurement World, Electronic Design, China’s EMC & Safety Journal, In Compliance, Microwave Journal and HP Journal. He currently authors The EMC Blog for Test & Measurement World.

Patrick G. André is President of André Consulting, Incorporated and has worked in the EMC field for over 30 years. He is an iNARTE Certified Engineering in both EMC and ESD (Electrostatic Discharge). His extensive work in the military and aerospace environment includes projects in aircraft subsystems, satellite equipment, industrial equipment, medical equipment, and work with all branches of the military and NASA.