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Minutes of the P-14 Committee on Overcurrent Protection Devices
October 7, 2002
Marriott City Center, Charlotte, NC

1.0 Committee organization and procedures

1.1 Membership and attendance
Self-introductions were made, attendance taken, and it was determined that a quorum was present.

1.2 Approval of the Agenda
The committee unanimously accepted the Agenda as presented.

1.3 Approval of the 17 April 2002 Albuquerque, NM Minutes
The minutes were unanimously approved.

1.4 Correspondence
There was verbal correspondence between Carl Lindquist of San-O Industrial Corp and Ed Mikoski. Carl expressed regret that he would not be attending the meeting due to a conflict. He forwarded a copy of the proposed numbering system for the drawings to be used in the proposed new database that will supercede the EIA PDP-100 mechanical outlines document. This is to be reviewed by the committee.

1.5 DSCC Report
Patrick Kyne delivered a report to the committee.

2.0 Old business

2.1 SP-4357-A, Low Voltage Supplemental Fuse Qualification Specification - Status
There was one unfavorable vote, (attached), from D. Warren. The Chair was not able to do this, so Dan Giblin took this as an action item to complete by the next meeting.

2.2 Ad-Hoc Committee updates
a) Mechanical Outlines - C. Lindquist

E. Mikoski provided an update and handed out "ECA Mechanical Outlines". The committee members need to review the handout and recommend additions/deletions. Any suggestions should be copied to the chair. Further discussions occurred during the P-4 meeting later in the week.

b) PTC Document Status - B. Travis
It was decided to reference the IEC standard - when published - instead of developing an EIA standard. Scott Davidson will take this on as an action item to find out the status of the IEC document.

2.3 Surge Fuses - Standards Proposal No 4951 "Surge Withstand Telecommunications Fuse Qualification Specification" (If approved, to be published as ANSI/EIA-932) - Review voting and comments

The document went out for voting and the ballot date closed on 30 September, so the results were not ready for this meeting. The committee decided to vote on the document during the meeting. Discussion then pursued regarding the accept/reject criteria. Traditionally manufacturers have chosen their own opening times and not having a set time as appears in the accept/reject criteria. It was mentioned that there were both slow-acting and fast-acting products, so that a fixed time would not be satisfactory for all products. Scott Davidson agreed to write up the text to be acceptable and schedule a teleconference through the ECA Engineering Department to have the full committee vote on this.

Scott Davidson had a second comment regarding the document (FCC 47 Part68 is believed to be the correct title) regarding Type B wave form product. Some Telecom fuses are designed to service the modem market. Table 1 Clause B2 and the Specification objective should be worded to allow surges or FCC surges. Scott will write up this proposal and the committee agreed to vote on this also during the teleconference.

3.0 New business

3.1 New Projects
a) Polymer ESD Devices

Diane Bicknese was to pursue this item with B. Travis on whether or not to keep this as an active item. She is no longer involved in the committee. The committee then agreed to alter its scope to include over voltage devices. The scope is now worded as it appears in the beginning of these minutes.

b) Development of Technology Roadmap

The roadmap from the resistor group was obtained by Dan Giblin. This wil be used in the development of one for this committee. D. Giblin plans to have a draft document ready for the next meeting.

3.2 Selection of new Chair
Since the previous Chairperson Diane Bicknese is unable to continue activity with the committee, the committee took nominations from the floor. Dan Giblin was unanimously voted as the new Chair. For continuity reasons, the committee decided to also select a Vice Chair. This was not to imply this was a position in succession to the chair, but to supply continuity during meetings if the Chair were unable to attend. The committee unanimously voted Terry Charles to the Vice Chair position.

4.0 Next meeting
The next meeting will be held the week of 14-17 April 2003 at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, AZ.

5.0 Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 3:46pm.

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA Legal Guidelines and the Manual of Organization and Procedures.

Dan Giblin, Chairperson
Signature on file

Edward Mikoski, Acting Secretary
Signature on file

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