Hello John, The HAR marking on power cords is only for the cordage, not the entire power cord set. The HAR scheme is applicable only to those countries who are members of CENELEC where an established test house is a member of the scheme, like VDE.
Best regards, Ron Wellman At 09:04 AM 5/14/2003 +0100, Crabb, John wrote: >Typically the requirements for a European power cord is that it should be >marked <HAR>, indicating that it has been approved through a European >"harmonized" scheme for the approval of such cords. Without going into >the complications of this arrangement, I believe that manufacturers of >such cords in countries which do not adopt European standards cannot >obtain HAR approval, and to get round this, they get an approval to the >appropriate European standard from a European test house such as VDE (or >indeed, from many test houses). >Without entering into the debate on whether a power cord is a component, >and whether components should be CE marked, I can only say that I haven't >seen a CE marked power cord, only cords marked either with <HAR> or VDE, etc. > >To summarise, I believe that your VDE approval is all you require. >Regards, >John Crabb, (Product Safety) , >NCR Financial Solutions Group Ltd., Discovery Centre, >3 Fulton Road, Dundee, Scotland, DD2 4SW >E-Mail :john.cr...@scotland.ncr.com >Tel: +44 (0)1382-592289 (direct ). Fax +44 (0)1382-622243. >-----Original Message----- >From: George Stults [mailto:george.stu...@watchguard.com] >Sent: 13 May 2003 18:20 >To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org >Subject: required power cord markings > >Hello Group, > > > >I have a detachable AC power cord proposed for shipment to Europe. It has >VDE markings which I take to be a German safety approval, but no CE >mark. Must it have the CE mark for shipment to Europe? The ITE equipment >that it ships with is CE marked. > > > >Thanks in advance > > > >George Stults > >WatchGuard Technologies Inc. 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 Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
