Vibrating Intrinsic Reverberation Chamber
Conventional EMC testing of large (fixed) systems are very costly. VIRC gives High field strength with moderate input power (major cost saver), a medium-size 'tent' yelds 10.000 V/m with only 100W input power.
This enables in-situ testing in a cost effective way (no infrastructure movements and therefor large cost savings). One remark must be made about this new test method. The properties of the Equipment Under Test should be known.
Patents are filed in November 1999 (WO00034795A1, 06/15/2000). Technique are used for APAR EMC (and HIRF/HPM) testing in 2000, cost reduction approximatly 750.000 Euro. Various EMC tests are made using this methodology within Thales in the Netherlands, CKC Lab USA and several Research institutes and Universities
