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borge@iinet.net.au (Borge Pedersen) contributed the following:

>bernie@metapro.com.au (Bernd Felsche) wrote:
>
>>Beware!
>
>>There are many PCs out there being sold which don't comply with the
>>requirements of the relevant Australian Standards.
>
>I would like to know your background for making such statement. We are
>overburdend with regulations. Such regulation does not do anything but
>make the fat cats fatter.
>
So you're happy with no regulations on things that can kill?

>Compliance plates are pretty and I am sure so are the people who
>demand them as they have little else to do than prene themselves in
>the mirror.
>
At least they'll know that their PC power supply shouldn't fry them if
it goes faulty.

>The switched mode power supply is one of the safest I can think of.
>From the very start in Colour TV some 25-30 years ago, you find very
>little wrong with these supplies. They very rarely have a disasterous
>burn out as had the standard supplies. 
>
Except that there is no physical isolation from the mains supply - as
there would be with a double insulated transformer.

>They are well tested and tried components and the very fact that they
>work so well here in australia is a testament to the quality. 
>
Until you get some cheap crap that does not meet the standard.

>In Uk where I worked on television they usually burn out in mid summer
>where the heat might reach and amazing 25 centigrade.
>
>From experience and from a technician point of view. If a thing works,
>don't fiddle with it and if you need a compliance plate print one
>yourself.
>
I hope that you never get into the aeroplane business.
>
>If that is not good enough, you are a bureaucrat wanting to be boyed
>up with more significance.  Let us forget that, we do not need all
>that overhang.
>
The current fashionable trend to "cut red tape" etc. is usually
proported by people who find that building things to a standard or
regulation just gets in the way of making a quick profit.
>
>People who make faulty computers soon go out of business.
>
After they may kill people with bad power supplies, do you volunteer
to be one of them in place of those that don't know that they have
these potentially dangerous things?

Regards, David.
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David Clayton, e-mail: dcstar@acslink.aone.net.au
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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