Some years ago, a firm was fined by the FCC here in America for displaying at a trade show a non-functional modem which neither bore the FCC marking (ID, at that time) nor the precautionary "This device has not met..." label. I used to think you had more sense on that side of the Atlantic, but considering Brussels ... Better safe than sorry!
Since it seems there may not be any standard your device fails to meet, you could hardly be challenged for violating one if you mark it, and since, as well, a government functionary might reflexively penalize you for marketing a device (ostensibly a security device) without such a marking, it seems to me that applying it is the better part of valor. Too, a criminal might learn that while real security systems DO bear markings, dummy ones don't, and use that distinction to target premises "protected" by dummy security systems. A customer might well in that event call you to task, claiming you knew, or should have known, that this would happen when you made a device recognizably fake. Another reason to add the mark! Cortland Richmond ====================== Original Message Follows ==================== (headers and trailers snipped) Kevin Harris <harr...@dscltd.com> wrote: Hello Group, I just had a question posed to me that made me think a little bit. So I will pose it to all of you. First some preamble. A device is going to be made for the European market. It is in fact a "dummy" device in that it looks like the real thing but it is not. The only electronics inside is a bridge rectifier and a RC circuit to blink a LED. The device can be powered by either an AC or DC source up to 30 V. The power source is not supplied. For this industry (security) there is a product family standard for EMC. The device is not a mock up for store display purposes but is in fact used in the industry to give the impression that there are more of these devices around than there really are. So the moment has arrived, do you CE mark the device? If you say yes, what directive did you apply? If you say no, what is your reasoning? ====================== End of Original Message ===================== ------------------------------------------- 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,"
