The OP asked about "compliance certificates". I took that to mean a third party test certificate, not the manufacturers EC declaration of Conformity. None of what I was talking about in my post was with reference to the DofC.
Nick. At 10:02 am -0500 22/2/06, Chris Maxwell wrote: >I don't understand how looking at the age of a Declaration of Conformity >will tell you anything. > >The only reason that a DOC should change is because of a change in the >applicable standards. A DOC that's two weeks old could be garbage if >the applicable standards hsve changed within those two weeks. On the >other hand, a 10 year old DOC may be perfectly fine if there haven't >been standard changes during that time. > >This is just another one of those rules that panders to "ease of >inspection" while being meaningless. Anybody who looks for the age of a >DOC is pretty much admitting that they have no idea of what the >applicable standards are. > >Chris Maxwell >Nettest, a division of Anritsu > - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
