I agree with Gary's comments. As a local official that has a building/electrical/fire inspector working under me, I see and hear quite a bit of truth to Gary's comments. There is no school for inspectors and each locality can and does make their own choices as to what is acceptable or not. We, for example, do not have a building code. We do implement electrical inspections under the auspices of the state fire code which adopts parts of some of the NFPA standards which adopts parts of the NEC.
As a compliance engineer for a living, not employed by an NRTL, I can also attest to the varying quality of NRTL's. And, I once dealt with the LA county problem of accepting UL only. I ended up having discussions with several L.A. County Commissioners and explaining that OSHA had to change their rules and allow NRTL's. About a year later L.A. County changed their rules to allow NRTL's. Finally, it may not matter what the law says, if a customer wants a specific something, and you want to sell your product to them, you will generally get that something for them. If that something happens to be a mark of some sort, then so be it. Scott Douglas [email protected] --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
