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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: EMC compliance question
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:52:38 +1100
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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:
>>
>> <snip CE chat>
>>>
>>> Do you really care?
>>>
>>> My Brit friends say that CE means Can't Enforce.
>>
>> Or Chinese Export.
>>
>> 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.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney