Tom, Be warned, something like this was tried by a UK manufacturer. They failed the tests, then persauded a Competent body to sign off a TCF stating that the failed tests were not applicable or were unpassable by their equipment. They then CE marked and placed on the market. Within their documentation they placed a warning about how it should be used which effectively negated the CE mark. The local Trading Standards body (the UK CE policeing body) found out. They did not take them to court, but made them withdraw all their products(several thousand) and fix the problem so the equipment passed.
And their equipment did pass after redesign. Regards Ray Garner EMC Consultant WRSL Message date : Nov 13 2003, 05:47 PM >From : rehel...@mmm.com To : T.Sato Copy to : emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject : Re: Immunity testing mitigations On 12 Nov 2003, Tom wrote >If you are so sure that your product complies with the protection >requirements of the EMC Directive even if it failed to pass the test, >you have chance to use TCF Route instead of the Standard Route. >Regards, >Tom Tom, could you explain your thinking on this a little more? I feel that too often TCFs are written just to get around test failures or to bypass testing even when standards apply. Some test houses are even implying in their advertising that they can "get around the testing" by writing a TCF. Bob Heller 3M EMC Laboratory, 76-1-01 St. Paul, MN 55107-1208 Tel: 651- 778-6336 Fax: 651-778-6252 ------------------------------------------- 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: emc_p...@symbol.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
