This issue becomes a whole new kettle of fish. As an importer of electrical goods into the states there are very few mandatory requirements enforceable by federal law. The FCC can get you on EMC emissions, and the FDA have powers over certain electronic goods that can emit ionizing or non ionizing electromagnetic radiation. But there is not much stopping you importing equipment without a plug attached.
The question is do you want to keep happy customers and stay out of the courts when someone incorrectly fits a plug. With no plug fitted, you will be hard pushed to get an NRTL mark on your goods. Without this mark, if something does go wrong, and with US courts, you might as well write a blank check, hand it over and pack your bags. The fact you, and now all of us, know your customer wants to fit a non earthed two pin plug, to a piece of class 1 equipment. Just feeds ammo to any litigation lawyer. After all you will be supplying equipment in the knowledge that the end user will make it unsafe. Just do not take the risk, with your job, your business or someone's life. "Crabb, John" wrote: > I don't know if you "have" to fit a plug, but I can > certainly tell you that our USA customers would be > VERY UNHAPPY if we supplied a product without a plug. > I certainly have the impression that fitting a plug > in the USA is not something that people expect to > have to do. > > Regards, > John Crabb, Development Excellence (Product Safety) , > NCR Financial Solutions Group Ltd., Kingsway West, Dundee, Scotland. DD2 > 3XX > E-Mail :john.cr...@scotland.ncr.com > Tel: +44 (0)1382-592289 (direct ). Fax +44 (0)1382-622243. VoicePlus > 6-341-2289. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Enci [mailto:e...@cinepower.com] > Sent: 17 May 2001 08:03 > To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > Subject: Re: US Mains Plug/Earthing > > Thank you for all your comments. > > Do EU manufacturers have to fit a suitable mains plug > to appliances when exporting to USA?... or can it > be supplied without a plug, putting the requirement on the user > to follow the instructions - in my case, stating that > a grounding plug must be used ? > > Thank you. > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org > Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org > Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall," -- Andrew Carson - Product Safety Engineer Xyratex Engineering Laboratory Tele 023 92496855 Fax 023 92496014 ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
