EMI Suppression Handbook – Communiques from the Trenches Price per Unit (piece): Call for Pricing Ask a question about this product EMI Suppression Handbook – Communiques from the Trenches William D. Kimmel & Daryl D. Gerke Edited by Dr. E. Thomas Chesworth, P.E. (Technical Editor, ENR) For the past decade or so, Bill Kimmel and Daryl Gerke have been making their way in the world as independent EMC consultants. Although they do teach EMC seminars, they make the bulk of their living at a client’s factory up to their elbows in a malfunctioning piece of electronics equipment. As anyone who has tried it knows, making your living this way is just a bit less rigorous than doing it by turning a spit inside a microwave oven. For nearly as long as they’ve been consultants, Bill and Daryl have been recording their trials, tribulations, and war stories in ENR’s “EMC Notebook.” In this book we present a compilation of their communiques from the trenches. The business of retrofitting all sorts of electronic equipment to fix all sorts of EMI has given them a unique perspective on EMC. Their continued success gives us a warm fuzzy feeling that their advice is most likely useful. These stories describe a variety of EMC problems along with the fixes that resolved them. Perhaps more importantly, taken together they give an insight into a process for discovering and resolving EMI difficulties in electronic equipment. The book concentrates on problems where, like the cavalry, an outside consultant was called in to rescue the project from failure. They are, therefore, in the main, the tough ones that stumped the usually competent in-house engineers. You will notice that certain problems recur and from that you can infer the likelihood of occurrence. The stories are presented in the order in which they were published between 1989 and 1998, and were not rewritten to bring them up to date. Some of them include references to particular EMC specifications which may be obsolete now, so the reader should be aware that these references may have only historical significance.