RE: Electrical safety of firearmsGary/ Peter: I think the point to be made is what liability is reasonable when it comes to manufacturing something that has the potential to become a nuisance. Certainly its not intentional to cause harm or nuisance but there are laws of Physics and a dedication to safety and if one can minimize the effects from lack of EMC then that is responsilbe engineering.
I get the feeling at times that marketing outweighs sound engineering design. There is a hidden benefit in buying a product with the CE mark and that is if it is sold in North America it will probably have the CE accreditation which is a bonus for the consumer, even though the product will not be warranted for it. My experience has been that there have no products with the CE mak that require any further suppression to make them perform their intended function. Ralph Cameron EMC Consultant for Suppression of Consumer Electronics (After sale) ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary McInturff To: 'Peter Tarver' ; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 4:21 PM Subject: RE: Electrical safety of firearms None of which are designed to intentionally do harm, for good or bad. Beyond that who wants a Listed three ring binder etc? Gary -----Original Message----- From: Peter Tarver [mailto:ptar...@nortelnetworks.com] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:08 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: Electrical safety of firearms Other inherently unsafe products: three-ring binders (mechanical hazard) any pointed writing implement (mechanical hazard) plain old mechanical staplers (mechanical hazard) paperweights (mechanical hazard) pushpins (mechanical hazard) bath tubs and swimming pools (drowning hazard) in-sink garbage disposals (mechanical hazard) refrigerators and freezers (suffocation hazard) Some of which, UL will List. Regards, Peter L. Tarver -----Original Message----- From: Peter Merguerian Rich, I tried to List such a device with UL some time ago and they told me that they could not List because it is inherently unsafe! However, I succeeded in getting TUV GS for the system.
