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On 24-Mar-12 8:24 AM, Anders.Montonen@kapsi.spam.stop.fi.invalid wrote:
> In comp.arch.embedded Joerg<invalid@invalid.invalid>  wrote:
>
>> Just curious: Does this mean the first round was shipped without being
>> EMC tested?
>
> From<http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/840#comment-16997>:
>
> "I'm going to have to put a statement out about this later: in short, once a
> certain number of orders were in, RS decided they didn't want to sell the
> boards as dev boards (which was what we'd planned for the first, uncased units
> - dev boards don't require CE marking - see Arduino, Beagleboard etc.) because
> the sales volumes were so big they were worried someone with a similar or
> competing product might try to cause some legal trouble over the definition of
> development board. We're still trying to work out if we can get some out
> earlier without CE marks to developers. We're rushing through compliance as
> fast as is humanly possible at the moment."
>
> -a

More reading:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/new-rs-email-compliance

Cheers Don...

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