CE marking newbie

| No longer legal in California. You can build them, but you can't | put them on the street any more here.

What do you expect from a socialist state? They are working on banning incandescent lights, too, because they don't want power plants around.

California needs to be divided up into at least 3 or 4 states.

On 23 Apr 2006 04:06:10 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@ipal.net Gave us:

You're a goddamned idiot.

...or given back to Mexico. They're working on it.

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:31:26 -0400, Keith Gave us:

F****ng idiot. We PAID Mexico for it. It is ours. The jack-off that think we stole it are utter f****ng retards.

What they should be doing is giving us the Baja peninsula.

We paid for Manhattan too, fuch-off and I'd prefer we give that back too.

No, they're _taking_ the whole SW whether you like it or not, fuch-off.

I am afraid that it is a *lot* more serious than that Joerg. Throughout the EU if *any* electrical apparatus is connected to the electrical supply of a vehicle in any way it *must* be 'e' approved. (eg if the charger of an electric toothbrush plugs into the cigarette lighter socket it must be approved - the electrical apparatus does not necessarily have to be fixed to the vehicle - just designed (or promoted as being able) to be connectable to the vehicle supply). The logic of this is to ensure that it cannot interfere with the 'normal' electrics/electronics (such as corrupting the EMU or disabling the ABS etc etc)

It is not possible to self certify. Approval awards the product an 'e' number issued by the certifying authority. This is a small 'e' confering compatability - not to be confused with a capital 'E' approval which is a performance standard approval applicable to certain automotive components/equipments.

Having said that the approval system and technical requirements are not that onerous or expensive - so do not be put off.

Hi:

I came across this on my search, and from what i gathered it definitely has to be e-marked.

Your help is apreciated

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

Thank you, that a very good link.

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

going in a car -as others have said - this will have to be e-marked, which is a non-trival exercise

there is bluetooth in the device - therefore is falls under the R&TTE directive - this covers requirements for: EMC emissions and immunity Radio spectrum usage - the fact that you are using a 3rd party bluetooth device will save you from bluetooth qualification testing, but not spectrum performance radio testing Safety - the R&TTE directive applies the LVD without the lower voltage limit.

Also "fixed installation" is ringing some alarm bells - various CE marking directives have slightly differing requirements on fixed installations, and the requirements are different to units placed onto the market to be installed by the user.

I do this for a living, so drop me an email if you'd like more info

Charlie