If you have a product that is powered by the AC line in the US, you probably
need to get UL listing on it.  If it passed CE, then it has a 95% chance of
passing UL.  Some details of CE and UL requirements are different, but CE is
generally stricter.

UL rules say you cannot sell anything in the US and label it UL listed or
approved or whathaveyou, unless it really IS so, and they will go after any
violators, under copyright law.

You can make a product with a UL label all you want, just can't sell it.
Often our manufacturers have skated the edge, making a warehouse full of a
product before UL approval but after the actual tests were done, to compress
shipping times.  This is risky, because UL might change their minds and say
the product is no good.

--Lawrence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Micro Eng" <micro_eng@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: UL 1998 requirements


> I'm not sure who posted...but I was not scoffing...just asking.
>
> So...if I have an embedded product that includes a PIC, a few FPGA's, a
> power supply....
>
> Do I...wait....should I.....get this product UL approved?  It is part of a
> larger system, but includes power control.
>
> Actually...the last version  was CE approved if I recall correctly.  So if
I
> get CE, it should pass UL as well?
>
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