For your telephone headsets you have to follow the R&TTE directive not the LVD. The safety standard is the EN 60950.
L. Catello Compliace Engineer ITALTEL-Italy ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris K. Poore <[email protected]> To: EMC-PSTC <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:02 PM Subject: Telephone headsets > > We have some telephone headsets that we want to CE Mark, but are not sure > what safety standard to use. Additionally, I don't see any category under > the CE Marking directive that would be entirely applicable. The LVD seems > most logical, except that the input voltage to the headsets is well below > the 75DC, 50AC cutoff. The headsets will connect to an OEM audio amplifier > that has been evaluated to the LVD, and seems to contain all the necessary > isolation (we are not even selling the amplifier). The primary reason for > wanting to CE Mark is because a competitor is doing it. > > Is there a safety standard that we should use that is specific to these > telephone headsets for EU compliance? > > Thanks, > > Chris K. Poore > Staff Compliance Engineer > --------------------------------- > Percept Technology Labs, Inc. > 4735 Walnut #E Boulder, CO 80301 > 303-444-7480 ext. 113 > 303-444-1565 Fax > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.percept.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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: > Ron Pickard: [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: > http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ > Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: [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: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
