Alex, If your product is UL Listed or Recognized it normally does not expire unless you change something or UL has a File Review (a change is made to the standard, and may affect the validity of your Listing or Recognition). So, if one of those two events have not transpired, I would be very curious about the purpose of the renewal. The only other fee that UL should be charging you for is the factory inspections. On a different note, 5V is not a defining factor for NRTL (lets be generic for the other test houses). I am using a keyboard and mouse that have NRTL Recognition to compose this email, neither of which exceed 5 V. I would guess that most NRTL approvals are driven by customer requests, local authorities or perceived legal obligation. I agree with one of the other posters that you should contact UL directly to present your questions. Best Regards,
Jody Leber Program Manager [email protected] http://www.motorola.com/producttesting blocked::http://www.motorola.com/producttesting> Motorola Product Testing Services 1700 Belle Meade Court Lawrenceville, GA 30043 770.338.3581 P 404.387.1224 C 847.761.3145 F _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Horvath Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: UL annual renewal 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 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
