In our experience purchasers/compliance officers in large retail organisations
expect to explicitly see the RoHS amendment listed in the DoC text as per Mike
writes below, because this ticks their box that the product has addressed the
additional four substances the amendment was concerned
To further this thread - The UK Government yesterday (24th January) announced
an additional, non-mandatory 'Fast Track UKCA Process' for products placed on
the GB market. See the 'banner' grey box area added to the top of this gov.uk
URL link below. At a later date the page will get further
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ukca-marking-conformity-assessment-and-documentation
Reporting:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/01/uk-eu-safety-mark-brexit-climbdown
- the funny bit here is that the original article was accompanied by a picture
of a non-compliant CE logo, as per the
I thought this news article that was on the BBC TV broadcast bulletins 27th
July might be of interest.
"Batteries for e-bikes should be regulated in the same way as fireworks, heavy
machinery or medical devices because of the fire risk they pose, a charity [UK
based Electrical Safety First]
It's old now but this article, written by someone working for TUV SUD, was
handy for me when needing to deal with the 'military exempt argument' a while
ago.
https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/the-military-ce-marking-conundrum/64803/
It agrees with your stance, which I
I don't think this issue regards radio spectrum use will ever get resolved
ever. Why - well explained rather neatly by Ben Goldache's answer to, "How
many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb?"
We've found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this
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https://gbelectronics.uk
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Hello all, unfortunately I'm not too familiar with U.S. standards. I am looking
for the equivalent information of BS 1363-1 that would describe the standard
U.S. mains plug and socket dimensions, plug pin lengths, spacings etc. I nice
2D dimensioned drawing would be ideal.
The reason is we
For those involved in UKCA Marking, note that the UK's decision to accept CE
Marking on equipment put on the market in Great Britain has been extended by a
year. An extra year of transition period now exists. The UK will allow CE
Marked equipment into Great Britain until 1 January 2023
Good read and resource that thank you. https://xkcd.com/927/ comes to mind :-)
Matthew Wilson,
GB Electronics (UK) Ltd.
Matthew Wilson
Technical Director
GB Electronics (UK) Ltd
matthew.wil...@gbelectronics.com
https://gbelectronics.uk
+44 (0)1903 244 500
Ascot House//Mulberry Close//Woods Way
The Draw component of Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/ has symbol
extensions for schematics here https://sschmidhuber.github.io/LibreSymbols/
Draw lets you make rubber band connections between elements, handy for
reorganising a drawing as it is made without having to redraw all the
https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/16513/attachments/1/translations/en/renditions/native
Category C in the table is if you have determined that the ESA is involved, as
per UNECE Regulation 10.5 Section 2.12, with immunity related functions, i.e.
one of
affecting the direct control of the
I was asked what symbol should be used on a piece of equipment, where the EN
61010-1 safety standard applies, to denote 'read the instructions for use'?
Prior just some English wording was used but a symbol would be better as the
equipment may be used within the EU.
It is not clear to me
EU 2019/1782 is the ecodesign requirements for external power supplies, i.e.
their efficiency, for Directive 2009/125/EC. Someone asked me how the formula
in 1(b) of Annex II of the EU 2019/1782 regulation was decided upon. This table
sets out the determination of 'average active efficiency'.
Hello all, I've had an enquiry for a product we produce from Australia from an
entity (not individual) down under. The product in question is an 'industrial'
power supply unit, 230V 50Hz AC in, 115V 400Hz out up to 3kW. It is
self-declared CE mark for EMC & LVD (EN 61326-1 and EN 61010-1) plus
Maybe some document like this from Ford would help?
https://www.elect-spec.com/download/EMC_CS_2009rev1.pdf
Similar from Jaguar Land Rover?
http://emc.jaguarlandrover.com.edgesuite.net/docs/download/JLR-EMC-CS_v1.0_Amendment_4.pdf
Have a look for "Automotive OEM Specifications" on your chosen
>From something I wrote as an internal memo to my design team a little while
>ago regards selecting PSU units for equipment to be placed on the market in
>the EU and UK. (The U.S. requires VI anyway I believe, source -
>https://www.cui.com/efficiency-standards )
What is VI 2020?
In
Could look at the offerings from Wurth Würth Elektronik, and/or contact your
local Würth Elektronik office. We have found them helpful when it comes to
sourcing components for EMC purposes.
https://www.we-online.com/catalog/en/WE-CLFS/
Matthew Wilson,
GB Electronics (UK) Ltd.
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Matthew Wilson
Look at
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:0082:0128:en:PDF
This is, “DECISION No 768/2008/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products”
See Annex II Module A1 and Module A2 in that
This was on the BBC News website today:
Amazon and eBay criticised for 'unsafe toys' -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50478221
Matthew Wilson
Technical Director
GB Electronics (UK) Ltd
matthew.wil...@gbelectronics.com
https://gbelectronics.uk
+44 (0)1903 244 500
Ascot House//Mulberry
I haven't seen much press about the changes to external power supply energy
efficiency ratings in the EU and UK that has appeared on the EU and UK .gov
websites - "Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1782 of 1 October 2019 laying down
ecodesign requirements for external power supplies pursuant to
If you are considering a fuse you may need to consider using two on both 'live'
and 'neutral' with a suitable warning. This is due to 'EU' mains plug
connectors being un-polarised. So the mains plug can be inserted either way
around, allowing the live and neutral to the appliance to be
Thank you all for your replies, much appreciated. I do offer apologies for the
use of ‘jack plug’ and ‘jack socket’ which of course suggests a non-suitable
connector akin to ‘headphone jack’. Quite righty as pointed out not a good idea
at all. I remember a long time ago wrecking a Sinclair
A client has a product, to be used by consumers typically in a bedroom or
child's nursery, which has a microcontroller and is Wi-Fi enabled so it can
present data to 'the cloud' and interact with a mobile phone 'app' to change
some parameters on the device. We have been asked by the client
A consumer product is powered by AA cells but also can derive its power from a
'wall wart' mains-DC PSU via a DC jack input on the product. The client who is
the manufacturer of the product (as per the EU directive) has decided to supply
a third-party wall-wart PSU in the box with the product.
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