Early 1982 the FED's here just sort of described the conditions as 1) where and how the equipent was sold - eg professional magazines, trade journals etc - but not consumer magazines. 2) The operation was not geared for general use, 3) the price was so high as to make it unlikely to be used by a homeower. Yes it was kind of loose but if you look at at 48 slot ethernet router advertised and used. 1) Sold in trade magazines or to IT CEO's, 2) not like to need that much switch capacity in a home even for the biggest online game players, and 3) $100,000 or more. Then compare it with a LinkSys 4 port wireless router, 1) useful in any home or home office, 2) sold in consumer magazines, and 3) $50.00, then the definitions make some sense. There will always be grey areas and neither the standards or the feds can cover them all, but with a little questioning and applied logic lead you to an answer you can live with. Gary
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wagner, John P (John) Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:47 AM To: John Woodgate; [email protected] Subject: RE: Digital media reader Class A or B Not so. Stores such as Office Depot, Office Max, et. al. sell product for business office use. These products certainly can be Class A. John P. Wagner Regulatory Compliance & Mandatory Standards Avaya Regulatory Compliance Laboratory 1300 W. 120th Ave., Room B3-D16 Westminster, CO 80234-2726 Phone/Fax (303) 538-4241 [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Woodgate Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Digital media reader Class A or B In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Charles Blackham <[email protected]> writes: >The Ethernet Switch you linked is a good example - a 24 or 48 port >10/100/1000 Ethernet switch is not designed to be used for connecting >together 2 PCs at home - whereas a small 4 port switch could be >reasonably assumed to be used as such and I would argue that this >should be a class B product. Anything sold in a shop/store should be Class B, because it is *likely* to be used in a home. There are specialist stores which create 'grey areas', but then things are never entirely straightforward. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk There are benefits from being irrational - just ask the square root of 2. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - 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 - 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 - 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
