> From: Daniel Roman > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:32 AM > > Are requirements for UL/CSA and Japanese PSE Marked power > supply cord sets mutually exclusive? I've been trying to > find a cord set that would satisfy both North American and > Japanese requirements for a plain vanilla NEMA 5-15 plug to > C13 configuration. I checked the major international cord > set vendors in the US and can't find a single one. They look > the same visually but there must be some technical > requirement that makes it difficult or impossible to do both? > Is it a wire or plug issue?
It has been my experience, as Ted Eckert said, that the requirements are not mutually exclusive for a 5-15P plug configuration. The Japanese requirements go to extremes in terms of dimensional precision and actually require the presence of the holes near the tips of the blades (which are otherwise there for manufacturing convenience), also controlling chamfer angles and the like. I don't know for certain about the cordage, but my recollection is that US/Canadian cordage met Japanese requirements, though I don't know about the converse. Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE [email protected] CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail message and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail message, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any prints thereof. ABSENT AN EXPRESS STATEMENT TO THE CONTRARY HEREINABOVE, THIS E-MAIL IS NOT INTENDED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A WRITING. Notwithstanding the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the applicability of any other law of similar substance and effect, absent an express statement to the contrary hereinabove, this e-mail message its contents, and any attachments hereto are not intended to represent an offer or acceptance to enter into a contract and are not otherwise intended to bind the sender, Sanmina-SCI Corporation (or any of its subsidiaries), or any other person or entity. - 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
