Er, I think you'll find it is certified to something. Unless you are using a "dodgy brothers" homebrew power supply, you should see some labels on the gear which can be traced to an Australian safety standard.
If your appliance doesn't connect to the telephone network then it doesn't need to have austel certification, just safety. IIRC the device connected on the phone side of the modem needs the austel certification, the modem's power supply needs austel certification if it powers up the phone line side, but anything on the other (i.e. isolated) side just needs the standard safety certification. On the subject of fun safety things, old CRT monitors without a UL flame rating can result in fires. I've seen two go up in smoke literally when their power supply expired of its own accord. Cheers, Jill. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2005 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] [ot] Using telephone wiring for networking? Sorry, I think my irony was not clear enough. I'm not saying the austel standards based/useless/wrong. I was pointing out that my *power supply* is electrical equipment, connected to the phone network but not certified. So I dont see why *other equipement* cannot also be considered outside the bounds of the standards, because of the same isolation requirements. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
