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Re: Do I need FCC approval for small devices?

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From: John W. Langner
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 23:33
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In article <20692@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>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.

There was an article on this topic in a very recent issue of 
Midnight Engineering magazine.

I won't paraphrase my vague recollections of the exact rules because I
don't want to spread bad information.


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