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Re:America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it by jwells89 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:46PM (#37539980)
Big agree on UL certification of electronics imports. So much dangerous stuff is coming in and getting sold in places like gas stations where customers probably won’t suspect safety issues.
Re:America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it by namibj on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:02AM (#37543697)
Is it currently legal to just sell your DIY power supply to US consumers? Or is there still like FCC certification required? Assuming, say, a USB-C charger.
Re:America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it by systems_glitch on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:31AM (#37544882)
"It depends" mostly on how DIY it is. PCB + parts kit is usually fine for most things that would have FCC or UL requirements, but selling something that's "assembled in USA" like tractors (wheels bolted on here, everything else done there) would probably still need certified.
Re:America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it by punkybr3wster on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:47AM (#37553762)
The problem is design and tech companies and cloning resellers sling stuff direct to consumers via ungodly amounts of facebook ads. Because they’re direct shipments so many of those products are not safe or certified and many clones are labeled as certified but aren’t because they’re cheap knock offs made to look like the originals.
Re:America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it by systems_glitch on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:04PM (#37604309)
Even at the small end, it's hard to produce something that's even a bit popular and not have it cloned/ripped off/your chosen license violated. We have that issue with a number of our products, both open-source hobbyist stuff and non open source.