Re: EMC compliance question

On 11/10/2024 2:58 am, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:25:04 +0100, Clive Arthur
<clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 10/10/2024 03:21, john larkin wrote:
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<snip CE chat>

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Do you really care?
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My Brit friends say that CE means Can't Enforce.

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Or Chinese Export.
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They may say that, but I bet they comply - it means if your competitor
finds out that you don't comply you have problems.  I've never worked
anywhere where it's not taken seriously.

 In europe, "taking seriously" often means buying a reel of CE stickers
and slapping them on everything.
 Did you EMI lab test everything that you sold?
 We mostly sell things that go onto bigger systems, and our customer
worries about certifications. So we only need to not make them fail.
Our box could be buried deep inside their system.
 We only once were blamed for an important EMI failure, and that turned
out to be our customers fault.
 There must be ballpark a million shops in the USA that assemble PCs
from parts, mostly Chinese parts, the other CE kind, and I doubt if
1% of those assemblers do any EMI testing.

Just a little mindless optimism there.
I did get on product started on CE testing, and the mains connector was the weak point. I think the final solution was to buy a better one.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney