Ryan, I read your response to the "Korea in a Nut Shell" message. Thank you for that.
I have some questions and comments. 1. How does a US lab apply for and get accreditation from the Korean government for EMI testing? I would like my local test house to apply. 2. Your price of U$670 for test, report and certification application is half the cost of a test and report at my local test house. I do not have to apply to the FCC for Class A equipment. A one day (6-8 hours) test is done and it takes 10 days to get the report. Your cost and turn-around time are half what I get here. 3. Touche on the language issue. I am paying for 6 (now 7 with Korea) translations all the time. I don't like it but it is a cost of doing business. 4. If my product continues to be imported into Korea after one year, you say I need to have a test report to check the product's EMI condition as compared to the original and that I have to apply to the Korean lab to get the test report. Question - does the Korean lab just re-print the original report or do I have to send another sample of the product back for another test? How is the product checked against the original tested product? >From an e-mail on 8 April 1997 from you to Bharat Shah regarding labeling of >the product - - If I have five distributors importing the same products, you >said that each of them has to get certification by applying for "same product >verification". Does that mean that each distributor must apply for this? Who do they apply to? Is it possible for me to get the registration, label the products here at my factory and ship them to the five distributors with all getting the same label? Most of my products will be shipped with my name on the certification label. That label has all of the approvals needed on it, that is CSA, CSA/NRTL, TUV, CE Marking, FCC statements, etc. Can I just add the Korean label requirements to my existing certification label? I do not put dealer or distributor names on my certification label or anywhere else on my products in this case. I do, however, sometimes do some private labeling. A customer of mine will have us place their name on the front of the product, i.e. the marketing name of the product. My certification label with my name and all approvals is placed on the back of the product. How does this affect the questions in the paragraph above? In a third variation, some of my customers contract us to make products for them and their name is placed on the certification label as well as on the marketing labels. In this case, I get CSA, TUV, etc. certifications in their name with me as the manufacturing location for that customer. How does this affect the questions in the paragraph above? Finally, someone at our embassy in Korea provided me with a chart that lists the products that need to have EMI testing. My products are not on that chart. It was in Korean and he provided it to me with his translation of the product types. It is not official and I cannot refer to it or attribute it to him. The chart is from a book, page 385 and the title is "Items subject to EMI testing" that he obtained from RRL. The hard question, if my product is not on that chart and I classify my product as Information Technology Equipment, then do I still need to get EMI registration? The chart listed the following equipment as subject to EMI testing: Wired Telecom Terminals Private Branch Exchanges Modems Credit Card Reference Machines Teletex Keyphones Telex Facsimilie Machines Videotext Videophones Word Processors Copying Machines General Purpose Computers Minicomputers Business Computers Industrial Computers Personal Computers Plotters (x,y plotters and drafting machines) Printers Data Service Units (DSU) Multiplexers (MUX) Monitors Keyboards Motherboards for PC's Power supply for PC's Cards for monitors (from among input/output interfaces for PC's) End of list from chart. Many thanks for all of your efforts to keep us going in the right direction. It is frustrating to sit here so far away while trying to cope with new rules in a land with a language we cannot read, write or speak. My compliments to you for making the effort to learn our language. ________________________ Regards, Scott Douglas Principal Compliance Engineer ECRM Incorporated Telephone: 1-508-851-0207 Facsimilie: 1-508-851-7016 e-mail: [email protected] ________________________
