Alex - Brian's advice to call UL's customer service is the course I would follow. Be certain to have all the documentation regarding the 'certification' at hand, when calling UL.
Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE [email protected] > From: Alex Horvath > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:45 PM > > Hi all, > > We have a product that was issued a UL certificate by a test > lab even though it did not require any UL > testing/certification. I can say this because it does not > contain or have any inputs in excess of 5V (it's powered from > a laptop PCMCIA port) and because a different test lab for a > subsequent version of the product stated that the product is > exempt from UL tetsting. > > Now we are getting a renewal request for UL from the lab that > did the UL certification. We would pay the fee but we were > not treated well by the lab so my management would like to > forgo this payment if at all possible. Since we do have a UL > certificate, whether it was necessary or not, must we now pay > the annual fee? > > Thanks > 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
