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Hi folks:
I have been put into a rather peculiar position with a customer due to a light curtain issue.
Basically, the customer has insisted on using brand "x" light curtain because they advertise that they are the only manufacturer who is
compliant with some new IEC standard regarding machine safety. I believe the standard number is like IEC-61496-1&2 or something like that. Another standard that might be applied is IEC-62046-1.
Anyhow, there are issues with this curtain product. It is highly sensitive to ambient light changes, it takes 2 minutes to power the device up or recover from a "fault condition", and it needs to be reset twice to work once. To point, we have faulted out this light curtain product already with a "balding man" walking near the array. Talking to the other major brand
manufacturers and they all say "What Standard - sounds like a BS sales pitch to us."
My questions: Is this standards change for real? Has anyone else heard of this? Is it now going to be standard to have a 2 minute power on cycle for a safety device? Have we been fed a BS line from the sales folk?
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Ron Gage - Saginaw, MI
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I have been put into a rather peculiar position with a customer due to a light curtain issue.
Basically, the customer has insisted on using brand "x" light curtain because they advertise that they are the only manufacturer who is
compliant with some new IEC standard regarding machine safety. I believe the standard number is like IEC-61496-1&2 or something like that. Another standard that might be applied is IEC-62046-1.
Anyhow, there are issues with this curtain product. It is highly sensitive to ambient light changes, it takes 2 minutes to power the device up or recover from a "fault condition", and it needs to be reset twice to work once. To point, we have faulted out this light curtain product already with a "balding man" walking near the array. Talking to the other major brand
manufacturers and they all say "What Standard - sounds like a BS sales pitch to us."
My questions: Is this standards change for real? Has anyone else heard of this? Is it now going to be standard to have a 2 minute power on cycle for a safety device? Have we been fed a BS line from the sales folk?
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Ron Gage - Saginaw, MI
([email protected])