>Yes...thats what I was alluding to in my last
>paragraph.

>> You really need to verify that it passes appropriate
>> national/international
>> specs, such as ISO/VDE/UL etc which are appropriate
>> for your product.

Yeah, well the problem is that it is up to you to do the search and
determine what is relevant to your product :))

I did do a CE marking course last year, which was run as an in house thing,
but it was mainly related to mechanical things. Essentially you cannot
figure "I am making product X, which is the relevant standard?" as there are
some general ones, (e.g. using a green indicator to show power on) and some
which will be specific to your product, which may even be a different bunch
to another product you may make because of the market it is going into, or
some other issue. It all comes down to second guessing what the user is
likely to want to do, and testing for it appropriately.

Incidentally out of this course I got some strange bits of information. One
I specifically remember is that while most of the world uses a whacking
great red button as the emergency stop button on equipment, the Italians use
a green one - why? because it is putting the machine into a state where it
is safe, so you use green. You use red when the machine is going into an
unsafe state - e.g. setting a spindle rotating so it is not safe to allow
hands, etc, into the area. When you stop and think about it, it is quite
logical - after all this is how traffic lights work - green light is safe to
proceed, red light not safe to proceed.

These are all items that have to be considered for CE marking - you need to
know your market as well as your product, and may need to get it re-tested
in each country if doing international marketing, to catch this sort of
quirk.

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