Pragmatically, so far as EMC is concerned, the only thing likely to give rise to any enforcement interest is if you manage to make something that causes interference to other equipment outside the boundary of your site.
If you briefly document the rationale for your decision to apply (or not) the EMC Directive, and you don't upset anybody else, that will probably be an end to it. Other directives, most notably machinery, deliberately use the "put into service" wording, thus removing any doubt. John C -----Original Message----- From: T.Sato [mailto:vef00...@nifty.ne.jp] Sent: 19 September 2012 14:13 To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Test Fixture for Self On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:40:30 +0000, Charlie Blackham <char...@sulisconsultants.com> wrote: > Quoting from the Guide for the EMC Directive 2004/108/EC, available from http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/electrical/documents/emc/guidance/ind ex_en.htm > > 1.2.6 Products for own use > Where an apparatus is manufactured for own use, placing on the market is considered to take place at the moment of putting into service; the obligation to comply with the Directive begins with first use. Well, but EMCD itself says: `apparatus' means any finished appliance or combination thereof made commercially available as a single functional unit, intended for the end user and liable to generate elec- tromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance; Is such test fixtures "made commercially available as a single functional unit"? Regards, Tom -- Tomonori Sato <vef00...@nifty.ne.jp> URL: http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/ > From: Robert Heller [mailto:rehel...@mmm.com] > Sent: 19 September 2012 13:24 > To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > Subject: [PSES] Test Fixture for Self > > If a manufacturer builds a test fixture only to be used by the manufacturer (not commercially available), does the test fixture need to undergo EMC testing? If so, where is this called out? > > Can "placing on the market" and "putting into service" be different things? - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
