Greetings Compliance Experts.
Something disturbing came across my desk today I thought I would get your opinion on it. On a CE marked peripheral we buy/sell as part of our laboratory equipment system, failed several immunity tests when we tested it as part of our system. When we notified the peripheral's manufacturer of the problem (yes, I'm being purposely vague) they said the failures were ok and sent us a "Certificate of Compliance" by a very very well know compliance lab with the following statement: Snip EMC Immunity: EN 61326-1:1997/A1:1998/A2:2001 EMC requirements for Electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use. - General Use for the following test with deviation of performance criteria to Criteria "C" instead of "B". EN 61000-4-2 EN 61000-4-3 EN 61000-4-4 Unsnip The peripheral manufacture said the EMC test lab told them they can put the CE marking on their product as long as they included the above deviation statement in their documentation and DOC. Is this true or was there some kind of miscommunication between the test lab and the peripheral manufacturer? With this line of thinking, our test lab will not have to fail anything in the future; just pass it with a deviation in the requirements. (just kidding). Thanks to all for your opinion. The Other Brian _________________________ LECO Corporation Notice: This communication may contain confidential information intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you received this by mistake, please destroy it and notify us of the error. Thank you. - 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
