EMC Compliance

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>The CE marking requirements are for any product sold in any
> country in the European Union. It is a legal requirement that
> all products are CE marked before that can be sold.<<<
> 
> 
I'm guessing that there's also somewhere in europe where they get hold of anything that's mass-marketable and needs electricity, and (probably in a faraday cage) test it to destruction for emission and electrical safety.
 
sony make this video laserdisc recorder which uses 12" double sided write-once discs in a plastic cartridge. it's not a spectacularly good machine- the discs are about 25 minutes a side and barely make broadcast quality, but they are useful for looping emergency material for when a transmission system goes wrong. we've got two here, from about six years ago, but when I tried to get another one about five years ago, the sony agent told me they couldn't import them anymore because they failed ce testing. this probably spelled the end-of-the-line for the PAL version...... needles to sew, the machines here have not caused any problems with adjacent equipment. and there isn't an equivalent product available.

elsewhere, we've got electronics in 1U boxes with 23 (I counted 'em) bolts holding the top cover on. the manufacturer told me that this was "a ce thing"; pretty much the only way to guarantee a pass for broadcast gear is to construct it in a faraday cage of it's own. I suspect, however, that there are items which have slipped the net...... come to think of it, even my mxr distortion-plus reissue had one of these silly stickers on it.

d.


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