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- 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>
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- Organization: Advanced Visual Systems Inc.
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:33:58 GMT
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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.
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- There was an article on this topic in a very recent issue of
- Midnight Engineering magazine.
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- I won't paraphrase my vague recollections of the exact rules because I
- don't want to spread bad information.
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