Greg, On a product that HAS NOT CHANGED!? ...for instance - drop test? I do not believe that it is neccessary to retest Everything. A resonable subset should be agreed upon. If you change something, then yes - that testing increases accordingly. But I consider a product change to be basically A NEW PRODUCT, and would want to retest all electrical parameters, at the minimum. For a product on which nothing has changed, this is primarily to catch manufacturing process issues. Not all, particularly environmental, parameters are at high risk.
Regards, Stephen ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From [email protected] Tue Dec 10 13:27:08 1996 To: [email protected] Subject: BOUNCE [email protected]: Non-member submission from [Greg Slingerland/Kan/Mitel <Greg_Slingerland/Kan/[email protected]>] (fwd) From: Greg Slingerland/Kan/Mitel <Greg_Slingerland/Kan/[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: 10 Dec 96 9:23:01 Subject: Re: FCC retest? One thing that I'd like to clarified, and I'm looking to Bill (FCC) to respond, is the comment that was made in the recent responses that said "but it is not the entire test suite. It is part of your quality plan - approved up-front as part of your FCC submittal,". Yes it is part of your submittal but since the instructions say to call up every section in Part 68 how can less than the entire suite of tests be performed? For each continuing compliance retest we perform all Part 68 tests as if the product were brand new! Previously we only performed this suite of tests once but with the recent clarification in the FCC's instructions to include surge in continuing compliance tests, I feel that a complete set of post surge tests must now also be performed to ensure compliance. The surge could be performed prior to the tests but then one in unsure if a failure may have been masked by the surge. Yes it a lot of testing, we have our facility busy almost 100% doing nothing but continuing compliance retests. Maybe I'm going beyond what is required but I don't see any other path given the words in the FCC instructions. I'd be interested in peoples comments, especially Bill's (hint, hint, nudge nudge),. Greg Slingerland Mitel Corporation [email protected] Jay.Hall @ denver.t-netix.com (Jay D. Hall) 12/09/96 03:08 PM To: treg @ world.std.com @ mitelgw1 cc: (bcc: Greg Slingerland/Kan/Mitel) Subject: FCC retest? Hello, I was just informed that my new company has to retest their telco equipment for part 68 and 15 every six months. Is this a new requirement? They said they have been doing it for two years. Any thoughts? Thanks. Jay D. Hall [email protected] December 9, 1996 3:08 pm MDT ----- End Included Message -----
