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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: EMC compliance question
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 03:03:48 +1100
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On 13/10/2024 1:21 pm, legg wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:06:32 +1100, Chris Jones
> <lugnut808@spam.yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/10/2024 6:20 am, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:59:09 +0200, Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund
>>> <klauskvik@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10-10-2024 23:11, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:41:07 -0700, Don Y
>>>>> <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/9/2024 4:03 PM, bitrex wrote:

<snip>

> Standards have become an established method of protecting local
> industry from lower cost imported goods from less socially
> responsible sources.

Since they are published internationally, they don't protect the local 
industry all that well. When I was working in England we paid attention 
to the American Underwriter's Laboratory standards so we could sell our 
stuff in the US.

> It's one way of encouraging social responsibility and raising
> technical awareness abroad, if you are an important market for
> the products of secondary industry.
> 
> They try to do this with tertiary industries (financial and
> service), but the weasels generally tap dance faster than
> the regulators, have more money and less conscience.
> 
> Hence CE.

Americans are cynical about CE. When I was designing stuff in Europe we 
did take it seriously - just as seriously as UL.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney