Hi, a quick question to the knowledgeable people here having designed and manufactured digital gadgets.
I have a digital device designed, which uses ~20W of power, and is designed to power a type C laptop in the meantime, and I plan to allow up to 60W output power to type C. Therefore, it needs at most 80W input.
The question is, how can I ship a power adapter with it? I don't have budget to design and certify a custom made PSU, so I want to use an off the shelf power adapter.
However, since for ITE PSUs, its electromagnetic compatibility is certified with its user product, so if I grab an off the shelf PSU, the FCC/CE label will be voided if I use it with my gadget, not the computer it was designed to work with, is that correct?
In my case, I plan to ship my gadget with a 90W type C adapter (Dell LA90PM170 with different IEC C8 plugs for different mains sockets). I can certify my gadget with that PSU model, but in case that PSU goes out of production, do I have to spend another $10000 to re-certify it? Recertification can be very expensive since my design has a custom intentional radiator on it, and I don't want to do it twice.
Is there anyway to dodge this stupid certification rule?