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Article #16643Re: Do I need FCC approval for small devices?
From: John W. Langner
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 23:33
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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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!johnl From: johnl@avs.com (John W. Langner) Subject: Re: Do I need FCC approval for small devices? References: <1993Jan6.063517.14107@sequent.com> <20692@ksr.com> Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu Organization: Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:33:58 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan7.233358.768@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> X-Posted-From: aurora.avs.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu Lines: 20