All: Please refer to the "Guidelines on the application of Directive 89/336/EEC" at http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/electr_equipment/emc/guides/chapfive.htm . In Section 5.4 "Additional practical criteria (accepted by consensus) to exclude equipment from the scope of the EMC Directive." 5.4.1 "Practical criteria and illustrative examples" it states "Although it should in principle be considered as within the scope of the Directive, the following apparatus can be considered as exempted, based upon both of the following criteria, which have also been taken in account into the development of EMC standards: ...Other equipment fulfilling the criteria above:... Quartz wrist watches without additional functions (e.g. radio receivers)."
So it appears that quartz watches are exempt by their own words, but if you have additional functions that involve a clock (oscillator), I would at least do a prescreen to see what kind of emissions were present. William T. Sykes Lucent Technologies EH&S Product Safety/Conformance Manager Room 7B-516A 600-700 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 (908)582-6937 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Clocks and calculators Dear Group, I want to ask you, if battery calculators and battery quartz clocks and watches (advertise gadgets) should be tested according to EMC directive? And if not, why? Best regards Mike This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
