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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!
« on: November 20, 2017, 12:48:24 AM »
Hi,
you're right in some countries they just don't care. In others they just print conformance notes and attach it to their equipment without being
anywhere near a testing lab.
There is to my knowledge one accreditated testing facility in Christchurh and to have IEC schedule tests done can be tens of thousands of dollars.
Such testing and conformance costs are passed on to the buyer making well designed and made equipment expensive. A lot of the chinese compliance
marks are just plain fraudulent. Some of their gear is just plain electrically dangerous.
Then there is all the shortcuts we as consumers take. We all buy VFDs but has anyone bought the matching line reactors? I bet not, after all the device works
without spending all that extra.....so why bother.
Craig
you're right in some countries they just don't care. In others they just print conformance notes and attach it to their equipment without being
anywhere near a testing lab.
There is to my knowledge one accreditated testing facility in Christchurh and to have IEC schedule tests done can be tens of thousands of dollars.
Such testing and conformance costs are passed on to the buyer making well designed and made equipment expensive. A lot of the chinese compliance
marks are just plain fraudulent. Some of their gear is just plain electrically dangerous.
Then there is all the shortcuts we as consumers take. We all buy VFDs but has anyone bought the matching line reactors? I bet not, after all the device works
without spending all that extra.....so why bother.
Craig