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Re: Do I need FCC approval for small devices?

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From: John F. Woods
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:21
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washer@sequent.com (Jim "Throw it over the wall" Washer) writes:
>I have designed a small micro-contoller based product. It contains the 
>micro-controller, a DTMF tone decoder, and some glue chips. I am
>considering marketing this in both kit form, and as an assembled product.
>Do I need to get some sort of an FCC approval on this? It is a computer
>of sorts... and I understand that all computers must meet FCC standards..

If it has a clock frequency over some low value (tens of KHz?) it needs to
meet FCC emissions requirements.
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Subject: Re: Do I need FCC approval for small devices?
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