You should know since phones are allowed to be HB material.
Manning
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>From: Frank McCaughey
>To: EMC-PSTC
>Subject: Re: One safety standard?!
>Date: Monday, September 30, 1996 9:15AM
>
>One problem with setting up one safety standard is whose universal
>principles will you follow?
>Historically, the radio/TV people put out product in wooden
>enclosures (I guess I am showing my age as well). So their principles
>forbade sparks and things igniting inside the cabinet.
>The IT industry has the concept of a fire enclosure, so that what
>goes on inside is OK, provided nothing gets outside, per 950, and
>damage is confined to a small area, per the (non-safety) K series of
>the ITU recommendations.
>Either approach would seem valid, in that nobody's house will burn
>down. So if two approaches can reach the same goal, which is the one
>that will be chosen? Or do we have the ONE standard that offers
>the fire enclosure option or the option of preventing internal
>hot-spots?
>
>Regards,
>
>Frank McCaughey
>Consultant
>
