Enci,

Be careful! If you are providing him with a two blade attachment plug, make
sure your product is designed to meet the double insulation requirements and
provide him with the double-insullated square within a square symbol. If
product is ITE, double insulation requirements are part of the UL60950
standard. For other categories use UL1097, the US Standard for Double
Insulation Systems. 

Also be advised that some US standards allow Double Insulation and Grounding
and others require Double Insulation only. So before you sell anything, I
suggest you check the applicable standards for your product.


PETER S. MERGUERIAN
Technical Director
I.T.L. (Product Testing) Ltd.
26 Hacharoshet St., POB 211
Or Yehuda 60251, Israel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Enci [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: US Mains Plug/Earthing



I am in the UK, a customer in USA wants us to fit
2 pin mains plugs to the Class 1 appliances he
is going to be buying from us.

He is very firm that there are no regulations in US
that requires this to be so. Is that true?

Thank you.


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