Dear group members, I would appreciate if anyone can shed some light on the following:
What would be the MINIMUM LEGAL Safety and EMC requirements (i.e. tests, reports, certifications, labeling) in the following two scenarios? 1) A company designs printed circuit boards that are used by their customers for evaluation. The evaluation boards have no enclosure, and are meant to be powered by some sort of a DC power supply (not a part of the evaluation board). 2) “Reference designs” are built, which look more like the end-products that potential customers may design. The reference designs have enclosures and power supplies (AC/DC and/or DC/DC, bought from some of the power-supply vendors/manufacturers). The idea is to let the customer more-less copy the reference design if they wish so. Both of these are: a) Manufactured in very limited quantities, available just for evaluation. b) May contain LAN and WAN interfaces of many different flavors, fiberoptic transceivers (laser) and telco 48V (isolated) power. c) Mainly used in the customers’ labs, but the reference designs may be also temporarily deployed in a real-life environment for more testing (mostly not in a central office though - which would be a different subject). d) SOLD to the customers worldwide (but probably not “placed on the marked”, as they are sold directly and in very limited quantities, not for any resale etc.). Side-note - the customers usually open the reference designs (may contain AC power !!) and leave them open. Thank you very much, Neven 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] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
