I am a novice engineer with the task of making CE marked products. Unfortunately I am being lost in directives and often I don't understand which standards and directives apply to my product. I want to get help but it seems that these are too legal to write on electronics.se, and too technical to write on law.se. Can I ask these on electronics.se?
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2\$\begingroup\$ Given the wide range of products covered, try and determine the classification of your product as just what standard applies is to a great extent reliant on that classification. \$\endgroup\$ – Peter Smith Feb 11 '19 at 11:42
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1\$\begingroup\$ Directives look huge and unclear. Don't try to read them. Just apply elementary safety, RoHS/lead free, eliminate electromagnetic emissions if any, quality connectors and other common sens stuff and it will likely pass the CE test. \$\endgroup\$ – Fredled Feb 13 '19 at 1:04
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1\$\begingroup\$ IEC directives make up for crazy reading, I think it's all a big scheme to make money because the only people that can understand the requirements are them. I also love the mulit hundred dollar price tags for their documents \$\endgroup\$ – Voltage Spike♦ Feb 13 '19 at 20:47
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\$\begingroup\$ Can you provide some details and specs about your product without disclosing proprietary information? \$\endgroup\$ – dougp01 Feb 18 '19 at 23:18
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\$\begingroup\$ Hello, I asked the question and got my answers. electronics.stackexchange.com/q/421495/94481 Thank you. \$\endgroup\$ – C K Feb 19 '19 at 5:05
Such questions are on-topic, as long as they are related to electronic design. This includes questions about directives/regulations regarding:
- EMC
- Radio
- Electrical safety
- Low-voltage/high-voltage directives
- Electronic environment, ESD and water protection etc
- Environmental impact, RoHS, WEEE etc.
- Domain-specific electronic standards. Maritime, aerospace, automotive, EX zones, military etc.
- Manufacturing/soldering of electronics in regards to all of the above.