EMC RF Anechoic Test Facility Tour - EEVblog  

Rule No.1 of interviewing: Shut up and let people talk.

what's fun is closing the door behind you, and standing in the center. It is.. SOOOOOO unbelievably quiet. Maddeningly quiet.

I just kept thinking of the walls closing in :P

I am surprised not to see a handler inside the GTEM. Nice to have.

When are you going to tear-down the Keithley instruments (fA and nV), Dave?

The place(s) I worked that had these collected cell phones, cameras, and all recording devices at the gate. Look me up in 2050 when their nondisclosures clause expires, and I will likely have forgotten what I was even doing there. The floors were done with cones too. A bridge could be set up, and they had hanger bolts to suspend things from the ceiling, and places to put pillars up from the floor for platforms TTs etc.. Both can rotate, & or gimble.

that's....that's..... the paradise !!! ( yes I live in a very noisy neighborhood )

Sweet tour guys - thank you. :)

it's not the biggest on the south hemisphere. 24 x 11 x 10 (m) is the size of one here in Brazil www.lit.inpe.br/emc

Within the military testing chamber, do you use any form of jig to position any components that won't necessarily be connected directly to a 'chassis'?

really cool video, thanks to the both of ya :)

I put term ,,Anechoic" into the english to slovak dictionary, and it translated it as : ,,The lover of anectodes" (in back translation to english)

Yep

Brilliant excellent wow brilliant excellent

Hi, why is the same treatment not applied to the outside (facing outwards) of anechoic chamber?

Well, I suppose that would be me. I design microwave radio equipment for satellites, and I make frequent use of this kind of facility. The ferrite beads they mention are the insurance against induced currents.

@depomb I want room of that size for my lab. And for my gym too..

@EEVblog I wander if they got a signal. ;)

Yes and no. Nearby power lines would certainly create fields that would penetrate these walls, but the measuring instruments themselves are electromagnetic, not magnetic, so they wouldn't be responsive to thos efields.

20:58 GSM interference...in a shielded room...

Drool at the R&S 40 GHz SA!

@DanFrederiksen In Australia all cars must be EMC tested.

man, sound inside is far better LOL

If you are stuck there, you will NOT be able to make an emergency phone call LOL

Very interesting !! Thanks.

Windows XP!? CRTs?!

It sounds like the guy you were interviewing didn't really want to be there... Interesting info in this video (I have never seen this kind of equipment before... And that anechoic room.......) but the video was overall a bit boring.

That's a magnetic field. If electromagnetic fields moved magnets, compasses wouldn't work anywhere near a transmitter - which in practice would mean just about anywhere in the developed world.

That's one hell of an Iron Maiden

Those doors just kept getting bigger

Ahhh, nice music, cool.

This room isn't for audio. It is for radio. The acoustic properties are not important.

china huawei shenzhen has a much bigger one which can put can put a truck with a base station tower on it.

When that door opened, I expected to see lots and lots of eggs.

how annoying is this interviewer but he does dig pretty deep which is good :)

why do you over talk the guy who clearly knows what the fuck is going on here?

Don't turn it on, take it apart!

I am reminded... as i am current sitting outside a room like that... EMC testing is very boring. Dont get me wrong, im glad its boring, but at least I can watch the EEVblog while i run audio susceptibility. :)

Probably cost 30x the price if they used ferrite tiling.

I find it interesting that they went for anechoic when a reverb with a stirrer would probably be much cheaper.

stop saying got it before he explains. I came hear for information.

OMG.. Can the guy who works there make it any duller?

nobody lie you know you wanna touch the foam

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1.8M 😩

You are in the wrong business. You should get a job with them.

This is unwatchable

How about some cones in that horror-story control-room??

I was in one EMC test chamber on military base here in Czech. rep.. It's HUGE, they test whole trains and tanks inside... Actually it's one of the biggest in whole Europe.

Every test centre I've been too, I've always found that the EMC engineers so vague! Always nice guys, but never seem to be able to answer your question with any certainty. Maybe they're so used to getting back to you to so they can charge you for their time - or maybe its that they get fed up with all the EE's asking so many questions. :)

34:38, somebody's phone is desperately trying to get a signal. :-)

Got it. Yep. Right. Yep. Right. Yep. Got it.

The host "LET'S SEE HOW MUCH I CAN EXAGGERATE AND STRETCH MY FACE AND EYES"

1.8M in that facility, cant buy him a mic so we can hear him.

It's the finishes on/in the wood tables that cause problems at high frequency, btw. At least according to the IEC 61000-4-3 standard text

Frankonia make the best anechoic chamber 12:59 this is a CP, floor connection panel, they are situated close to the antenna and close to the turn table, for easy connection 13:44 All Frankonia chambers have raised floor, this one is heavy duty, all cable and optic fiber can circulate through duct under the raised floor from floor connection panel to penetration panel to control room 13:59 Those absorbers are made form mineral material laminated with thin film, those absorbers are M0 non flammable. 14:8 End cap is to hide the nylon nut at the end, this is how absorbers are fixed on shielded wall 16:17 Dyno on anechoic chambers are all shielded, this is why those dyno cost so much

You two are a mirror image when it comes to energy level :P give him a redbull or a cup of coffee ;D

No offense to that guy, but man he sounds boring! And no, not you Dave! Thank you for your H.R.T.

I've been in one of those, I almost went crazy, because i rely much on my hearing

i really like the video dave but wow you and that guy make an awkward pair.

@JumperOneTV Yeah, indoor climbing wall and trapeze set in the lab would be cool!

Fascinating! It would have been great to show an actual testing :) Do you guys know if they use only one antenna in each room to measure the emission or do they have something like a sensor/antenna network (like a flat panel detector) so that they can have a more detailed emission-map in the end?

@rapsod1911 When time permits, things are hectic at the moment unfortunately.

What kind of testing are they doing in such a chamber exactly? Why do they put vehicles in it?

@thewii552 Someone had their phone with them obviously.

yawn... could you pick a more boring rf engineer to interview?

@rapsod1911 Damn, good point...

Is that a state of the art cassette radio there..

Joking around about which frequencies are DC... Har har! EE humor!

ConePorn. But to me, almost every EMC testing technician is a ConeMan. And EMC is considered magic and sorcery.

Jesus, could you two be more awkward?

Never seen something awesome like that!!!

Here is a fine EMI EMC test set. www.h-instruments.com/EMI_EMC_Magnetic_near_field_probe_set___30_dB_Amplifier/p484050_19259551.aspx

There's one like this around this size close to where I live where they stick anything in there that needs to be testing from coffee machines for aircraft to lorry's and busses. It's a BAE SYSTEMS site, where they mostly specialise on HUD's n helmets and lots of other amazing cutting edge state of the art bits, which I love! 😍 I know it's an older vid but I loves every second of it 👍🏻

At least a $1,000,000 of that budget went into that ridiculous door.

Now that is a big door.

Question: In the big room, how AWESOME would it be to bring a loud ass sound system and blast it inside and no one else would hear it. Lots of fun dance partys can be held inside :D

I don't geddit, that room sounds quite echo-y and "live", i thought it was supposed to be anechoic??!!

Now that is a big door!

We have one of these at work. It sounds really odd when you walk in especially when you are talking to someone.

Hmm, a big flat solid floor. That's going to reflect audio, isn't it? Is that room used the way it's presented in the video? I hear echoes!

Interesting how the sound changes too as you enter the chamber.

So... I couldn't help but notice the floors are flat. :)

i imagine it is quite good for noise cancellation?

The cone coating is carbon black and graphite mixed into paint. A German company is selling a RFI shielding paint for people wanting to shield themselves from RFI towhat end I am not sure. They sell this carbon black and graphite paint to shield electric guitar control cavities which I find to be useless. RFI does not come through or affect audio very much at all. Foil or Ferrashield will do low freq EMI which is the enemy to low noise in audio circuits. Foils costs a lot more, go figure!!

They moved all their secret government stuff out of the city years ago. It makes me wonder who is using the old facility. The mains grounding has exothermic welded copper grids, and man made chemical electrodes everywhere under the facility. I hope you do get part of the VLA in Australia. Your political status is way more stable than Africa. I toured the first VLA in New Mexico in about 1978? I think. It is along I-10 in southern New Mexico, and now there are more in other locations.

No, they aren't the same physical field. You can't move a magnet with an electromagnetic field. To shield against magnetism you need a diamagnetic material like soft iron. Mumetal is the best, but it is not good against strong fields because it tends to saturate too easily. Once that happens, it may as well not be there.

@sixstringmania a poorly conductive material. They have to be resistive so they can convert the the RF into heat. According to wikipedia a mixture of carbon and iron is very common. I think I have heard of silicone being used (I guess it would have to be silicone and some other material to be able to do the job)

I've seen one like this with a suspended wire mesh floor but they can't support trucks. Oddly, when an orchestra play in an anachoic chamber there is a reverb - its sound echoing around inside the instruments, across a whole orchestra, thats a lot of space! :o)

Oersted's experiment was a current through a wire creating a Magnetic field, not an electromagnetic one. Get to grip with Maxwell's equations and the difference will become clearer.

I found it funny to hear some cellphone signals at around 34:30, the door was probably open but that little phone must be screaming its mind off to the antenna...

It points north (or as they are in Oz, I guess they would say it points south). This chamber shields ELECTROmagnetism, not magnetism - not the same thing.

did you check out the audio when you went thru the door ???? All the ambient just dropped huge. That's cool. BTW, love the channel man. Cheers! (From Canada)

That second room looked like CGI haha!

Dave, your camera makes a lot of clicking noise when handled, something to keep in mind when filming standing up

My work has an EMC test room... i've been in there for testing... its similar to the video but smaller. An antenna to monitor reflections, rotate it 90 degrees and test again with a spectrum analyzer. Pretty cool stuff.

Who cleans that room?

The phone keeps on searching for a cell. You can hear this in the video. So the chambers are working :-).