Howdy,

I have a person/client who wants to use one of my boards in a commercial 
product.  They are concerned about getting FCC certification for it and 
I really have no experience with it.

I think they can "dodge" the UL stuff by simply using an external UL 
approved power supply/wall wart (so everything inside the product is 
5volts), but as I understand the FCC stuff, if you have a 
clock/oscillator over 9Khz, it needs to be certified.

If anyone has gone through this process, I'd really like to hear some 
details about it.  Particular questions:

1) Are there any exemptions for small batch/lot products (these will 
mostly be "art works")?

2) Did you have to do a lot of shielding?  The controller is a PIC 
running at 8Mhz doing a lot of RGB LED PWM stuff (www.rgbled.org).  I 
don't think it throws off that much RF, but...

3) Did you use one of those FCC certification shops?

4) Do you have a rough idea how much the process costs?  This could be 
for class B certification (residential)?

5) Did you also get a CA certification too?  If so, was the pricing similar?

Of course, while all the questions are important, #4/5 are really what 
are going to sink/float the product.

Thanks again,

Gerry
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Gerry Duprey
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.cdp1802.org
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