A Consensus on Powering and Grounding Sensitive Electronic Equipment

Aseensitiveileebariepmoessing systems proliferate in our facil i t ies s o do power-related pr&bms. Efforts to alleviate these problems have ranged fixm installing expensive power conditioning ~ ~ a p p 1 r i n s s p e d a l g r a u d i n g ~ n ~ faund in mwtirral safe grwndhg practtoe Understanding & what is actudlly going on has been lack%. W e find eMmate power systems, modified from basic practice t o the extent of being unsafe, t h a t amtinue to be plagued with pareringand groundingrelated prcblems. O u t af this chaos w e are persuaded to study Md understand the complexities of the pmblem and to beain devela,inS mod practices. This is the drjective d;r the I E E ~ w&.&hg ~ r o u p on Powering and Grcunding Sensitive FJ.dmnic Equipment, Standards Project PUOO. we w i l l intmduci project p1100, preview its scope and technical content and, most hportantly, i d t e participation in th i s seriously needed consensus standard activity.