A search of the IRAM site indicates that they have a certification agreement with CSA. Would one our readers associated with CSA investigate this agreement and report back to us?
> ---------- > From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]] > Reply To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 8:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Argentina Approvals 2 > > Hi Group, > > I have been poking around the web site for IRAM - Instituto Argentino de > Normalizacion. This can be reached via the Safety Link site > www.safetylink.com. Go to the Product Safety Resources area and find IRAM. > > From what I can gather, IRAM is sort of like a UL for Argentina. They > research and write standards and apparently "certify?" products. I did not > get to any point that I could tell was the source of the requirement for > compliance. That is from Resolution 92 issued by the Ministry of Industry > and Interior Commerce. > > I did find the part in IRAM's site that lists what is covered (I think) > and it looks like they use something equivalent to IEC 950. I could not > tell if there are national deviations or any other information. Since the > site is entirely in Spanish I was lucky to find what I did. Perhaps one of > you out there can read Spanish and would make this a little more clear for > the rest of us. I clipped a pair of snippets form two different areas and > they are pasted below. > > > > >ELECTRÓNICA > > ACÚSTICA Y ELECTROACÚSTICA > > APARATOS ELECTRÓNICOS > > EQUIPAMIENTO DE TECNOLOGÍA DE LA INFORMACIÓN > > EQUIPAMIENTO ELECTROMÉDICO > > EQUIPOS DE AUDIO Y VIDEO > > INCUBADORAS > > MEDIDORES DE VELOCIDAD DE TRÁNSITO DE > >VEHÍCULOS > > RESPIRADORES > > SISTEMAS DE ALARMAS > > > > EQUIPAMIENTO DE TECNOLOGÍA DE LA INFORMACIÓN > > > and on another page: > > > > IRAM. Por estudiar > > > > 4100 Equipos de tecnología de la información, incluidos los > >equipos eléctricos de > > oficina. Condiciones generales de seguridad. (Equivalente a la > >IEC 950) > > Again, I don't' tread Spanish so was winging it here. FWIW. > > Scott > [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). > --------- 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).
