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In a message dated 4/11/2002 3:28:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, amolny@optonline.net writes:

<<<...any electonic device which has not been "blessed" by some self-appointed authority...>>>

If, by "self-appointed authority
, you mean the certifying entities within the FAA, then their standards for avionics performance have racked up a pretty impressive record for safe operation. If, on the other hand, by "self-appointed authorities", you mean any one of the numerous such entities within the experimental aviation community, you're right: I wouldn't trust them either.

<<<...The wiring problem may be as simple as adding RF chokes (little iron donuts) to the device's power lines...>>>

I guess the PhD's who developed SFS
are really lamenting the fact that they didn't have your BSEE available to them. I'll bet choke cores are much cheaper than the ASIC's, shielding, and other technology they used to refine the RF immunity embodied therein.

Jack Kane

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