19May
12May
Steve Frierson Presents at EMC LIVE Automotive on 06/08/2021-Register for Free!
V Technical Textiles, Inc.'s Technical Consultant, Steve Frierson, presents at EMC LIVE Automotive on 06/08/2021 at 12 PM Eastern time. His topic is "Automotive Testing Utilizing a Portable Vibrating Intrinsic Reverberation Chamber". Reverberation testing for EMC Compatibility has become a major test method in the Automotive, Aerospace, and Defense Sectors. The EMC tests that the Reverberation Chamber is used for are: Susceptibility Testing- This test determines whether the Device Under Testing (DUT) is susceptible to EMI that will be present in its...
07Apr
Pre-Compliance Testing is Important, Prepare your Product for the Final!
Pre-Compliance Testing is important, prepare your Product for the Final! I'm not talking about school here. Manufacturers of electronic devices know exactly what I'm talking about. In order for an electronic device to be marketed, it must pass Final Compliance Testing on RFI susceptibility and RFI emission standards. These standards regulate how much RFI affects the device, and how much RFI the device emits. The device must pass these rigorous Final Compliance Tests at approved testing centers in order to...
25Mar
Teamwork Provides Great Solutions and makes our Products Better!
Teamwork provides great solutions and makes our products better! If we've learned nothing more in this year of pandemic, we've learned that "we're all in this together". During this difficult time, we've found that we couldn't always work the way that we did in the past. Supply chains were backed up and product development lagged. We came to realize how dependent we are on each other in order to manufacture products that are up to our level of expectation. V Technical...
17Mar
RF Shielded Testing Enclosures, Rental is an Option!
RF Shielded Testing Enclosures, why buy one you can rent it? Shielded Testing Enclosures are an ideal solution for Pre-Compliance Testing. Accomplishing this testing at your site has several advantages. There is the monetary advantage, saving travel and testing fees are two areas of saving money. Saving precious time instead of waiting for appointments at busy testing centers when you can perform them in your own location on your own schedule represents another important savings area. Many industries are required to...
26Feb
Portable RF Shielded Enclosures are Excellent Testing Options!
Portable RF Shielded Enclosures are Excellent EMC Testing Options! These Enclosures are used in Pre-Compliance testing of new electronic equipment in the developmental stage. They provide the perfect ambient-free environment necessary for this type of testing due to the "Faraday Cage Effect". The metalized conductive textiles used in making these enclosures block unwanted electromagnetic fields and waves inside of the enclosure. The Device Under Testing (DUT) can then be operated in a "clean RF environment" to determine if normal operation...
26Jan
RF Testing in Space? How will that be Done?
RF Testing in Space? That seems like a strange question. Certainly, RF Testing in space is not being done to any great extent at this time. RF testing is done on earth for the spacecrafts and their components to make sure that their delicate electrical systems work smoothly together in space. RF testing in space seems like it could be a necessary thing to consider within the next decade. NASA's Artemis Program will return humans to the Moon in 2024. The...
30Dec
What is a Solar Flare? How can it Effect our Electronic Lives?
What is a Solar Flare?
A Solar Flare is the release of pent-up energy, also called a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). Think of them as the results of storms on the surface of the sun, or "spouts of magnetic energy". In early December, we had a Solar Flare. This Solar Flare coincides with the onset of "Solar Cycle 25". A Solar Cycle is an 11 year window of time during which the storminess on the surface of the sun peaks and...
16Nov
What are Faraday Cages and How are they Used?
Faraday Cages are enclosures first researched by Benjamin Franklin in 1755, but mostly attributed to the work done by Michael Faraday in 1836. Essentially, a Faraday Shield is an enclosure made of a continuous covering of walls, ceilings, and floors by a conductive metal that is used to completely block Electromagnetic Fields from entering the inside of the enclosure by spreading the current over the outside of the enclosure. In contrast, a Faraday Cage, which involves the use of a...
03Nov
