EMC lab, screen room that fits a regular truck?

Y'know, I read 'fits a regular truck' to mean no more than 8 feet wide,

Not the other way around.

I guess I just lack imagination.

Unfortunately it often doesn't mean regular truck but regular "full size pickup truck". Way too small, you get stuck right at the doors. Well, you could step on it but then they'd be down one screen room ;-)

A typical entrance can bee seen at the upper right photo:

You could get a semi through there. But only once ...

Can you do this outdoors, perhaps at an FCC Quiet Zone (or equiv.) and correct from there? Not sure if there are any out your way though.

I do hear Boeing has a screen room big enough for a jumbo jet.

Or course, that's probably up near Seattle, so at $4.75 a gallon for diesel.... Yikes!!

The US car makers have the EMC labs for testing vehicles in house. They are very well equipped and they take jobs from the side. If you are interested, I can give you a contact.

Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant

But AFAIK they are usually around Michigan which would be a 2-3 day drive clear across the country. If you know any in California or maybe northern Nevada please let me know.

It's >5 by now :-(

We've got some mil places around here but they won't let civilians in. Nevada would be an option but we'd be in 110F and in the scorching sun all day. Plus with some luck you return to the generator to change a setting and a rattler has curled up on it.

Aren't there some car companies in or around Fremont, CA?

They may only be manufacturing, though.

...Jim Thompson

It's the NUMMI plant, mostly manufacturing for Toyota and GM.

JPL, NASA, NIST? Maybe one of the big satellite manufacturers? Some of these payloads are "as big as a bus".

If they let outsiders in, that is. And Pasadena would be 1000 miles round-trip.

Find a nice quiet metal warehouse somewhere way out of town!

Just to give you guys an example of what we are looking for:

Unfortunately in Europe :-(

Looks like we'll have to. The closest lab large enough seems to be Lockheed-Martin near L.A., too far away. Just talked to the guys at McClellan. Problem is, there isn't exaclty a "way out of town" in Silicon Valley. But if we have to we'll find something farther out in the hills. It doesn't have to be quiet, it's just susceptibility tests for now. So it wouldn't matter if a rock concert was going on in there ;-)

I know that there are a LOT of auto design houses in and around Irvine, so someone there may have a test site...

Charlie

Sure, there is one at Lockheed and there is one in Fullerton. But that's probably 1000 round tip. Or about 15 (paid) hours of driving and 200 gallons of California boutique-Diesel.

Might i suggest an alternative approach? Build and certify a temporary EMC chamber at a "remote" location, kinda like the Mariposa OATS facility but better shielded, etc.,

Perhaps an absorber tent inside a steel only building?

I have never seen one that was portable or could be rented.

I have seen rentable steel buildings, they may not be empty though. They may have big enough doors and enough free space to erect the tent one of your contacts proposed. The walls of the building would constitute a second layer of shielding.