Hello Seems like there are a few people in this group that have developed kits involving nixie-tubes and sell those kits.
I'm starting to think about developing my own kits via a kick-starter campaign. But it seems it's dead before it has begun. I live in Switzerland, and would like to sell the kits over the world, so i did research about responsibility for products inside the EU and spoke to a local electrical safety authority. Here is the problem: It seems to be, that all electronic products have to fulfill EN 60950 and EN 60065 Norms. Since its a kit, its a "electronic toy" and has to fulfill the DIN 57869 Norm. And because of the fact that nixie tubes work with >50V, it needs even more safety rules. Only the EMC does not seem a problem, because its just a PCB with out a case, so the EMC can't even be measured. Now, only to get access to the norms is about 1000$, and i guess all the certificates wont be free! In US, i did not yet study the rules, but i think you need to fulfill the "FCC" So, i just want to ask, if all that kit makes take the risk to be responsible in case anything happens with the kit (e.g worst case someone dies) or if there is a way to avoid all the certificates and norms. I think all those eastern europe ebay kit sellers don't have to worry, because "you won't get them" anyway. But in US or Europe i think you could run into serious problems. Im happy to hear from you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/d8f615ff-26d3-48f0-9b2c-e5b79826db4b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
