Greg Galluccio wrote: >> The GS Mark has no mechanism for delineating between components and finished products - both can receive GS approval. Hence the TUV GS mark. Unless something has changed in the in the last two years, when I was employed at TUV, this is actually not quite correct. The GS Mark is only for finished ready to use products which do not require any special installation considerations to make them safe. It cannot be issued for incomplete unfinished products which require an enclosure, for instance, to make them compliant with the standards. For components TUV would issue the "Bauart Mark" which is their equivalent to the UL recognition mark.A Bauart Mark usually contains conditions of acceptability such as special installation considerations while it was not allowed to have conditions of acceptability on a GS License......... If I remember correctly Bauart Mark and is not regulated by the German Government as the GS Mark is............
-----Original Message----- From: soundsu...@aol.com [mailto:soundsu...@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:43 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Question regarding something slightly unusual ... >From Doug McKean: >>>>>>>>In 20 years, I've never seen this before but that's not saying much. Why would a mfr get a UL recognition approval for a commercial ITE style single phase 155-230vac computer style product but for that same product get the TUV "GS" mark? Mfr is a stateside company. Product to be used in restricted areas with trained personnel only. But, one that essentially anyone could buy. What's the advantage of getting such a mixed set of approvals? <<<<<<<<<<<< It's not really a mixed set of approvals. UL must have considered the device to be incomplete in some way (does it have an enclosure?), therefore they Recognized it as a component as opposed to Listing it as a finished product. The GS Mark has no mechanism for delineating between components and finished products - both can receive GS approval. Hence the TUV GS mark. That's my guess, based on the limited information you gave. Greg Galluccio www.productapprovals.com ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com 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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
