Hello All, After a number of disagreements with various customers about the industrial, commercial, or medical test equipment ambiguity, I sent an inquiry to the FCC. Please see the response below. This should help.
Regards, David Shidlowsky | Technical Reviewer Address 1 Bat-Sheva St. POB 87, LOD 71100 Israel Tel 972-8-9186113 Fax 972-8-9153101 Mail [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>/[email protected] Web www.itl.co.il<http://www.itl.co.il/> Fill out Customer Satisfaction Survey<http://app.sqm.co.il/SitePages/Questionnaire.aspx> Global Certifications You Can Trust This e-mail message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, use, disseminate, distribute, copy or rely upon this message or attachment in any way. If you received this e-mail message in error, please return by forwarding the message and its attachments to the sender. From: DavidS Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 8:09 AM To: itl-emc user group Subject: FW: Response to Inquiry to FCC (Tracking Number 673712) From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 12:57 AM To: DavidS Subject: Response to Inquiry to FCC (Tracking Number 673712) [Link to Federal Communications Commission Home Page] FCC Home<http://www.fcc.gov/> | Search<http://www.fcc.gov/searchtools.html> | RSS<http://www.fcc.gov/rss/> | Updates<http://www.fcc.gov/releases.html> | E-Filing<http://www.fcc.gov/e-file/> | Initiatives<http://www.fcc.gov/major.html> | Consumers<http://www.fcc.gov/consumers.html> | Find People<http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/findpeople.pl> [Office of Engineering and Technology] [http://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/images/montage-right-cap.gif] Office of Engineering and Technology Inquiry on 11/03/2015 : Inquiry: 15.103(c) states "A digital device used exclusively as industrial, commercial, or medical test equipment." Is this to be understood as " industrial test equipment, commercial test equipment, or medical test equipment"? Or " Industrial equipment, commercial equipment, or medical test equipment"? If " Industrial equipment, commercial equipment, or medical test equipment" is the correct understanding, what is the definition of "commercial equipment"? FCC response on 11/03/2015 (c) A digital device used exclusively as industrial,commercial, or medical test equipment. It is an exemption for demonstrating compliance for the digitallogic contained in test equipment exclusively used in commercial, medical and industrialsituations, not commercial equipment. However, you shouldnote that this equipment is subject to the general conditions of operation in§§15.5 and 15.29 that it the operator of the exempted device shall be requiredto stop operating the device upon a finding by the Commission or itsrepresentative that the device is causing harmful interference. Operation shallnot resume until the condition causing the harmful interference has beencorrected. Although not mandatory, it is strongly recommended that themanufacturer of an exempted device endeavor to have the device meet thespecific technical standards in this part. Basically, the procedure for the equipment authorizations isverifying that the device is within limits for unintentionally radiatingunwanted emissions as good quality engineering. Attachment Details: Do not reply to this message. Please select the Reply to an Inquiry Response<http://www.fcc.gov/labhelp> link from the OET Inquiry System to add any additional information pertaining to this inquiry. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) 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]>
