In my experience in the US (FCC regs.) Class B is for residential use and Class A is commercial business use.
Class B products are products marketed to the general public [for use in the home] and Class A products are products marketed to Business [for use in the office]. The FCC regs. do not allow Class A products for use in the home and hence to be safe Class B is preferred and can be sold to home and business. In Europe the Class A/non-residential versus Class B/residential is not explicity detailed/stated in the emission standard. The FCC does state the difference between Class A and Class B usage. Andy White Ericsson San Diego. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FCC Class A and Class B testing From: Cecil A. Gittens I am in process in creating an EMC test plan for a Photo Color Printer that will be sold for about $1200.00. My question is can I test this product for either FCC Class A or B? Does the cost of a product matters if it is Class A or B for the US market? Cecil ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
