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| robint91:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on July 18, 2021, 05:38:38 pm --- --- Quote from: robint91 on July 18, 2021, 12:53:59 pm ---For example, this repair by one of the employees of Louis Rossmann, how can this repaired laptop the be the same as the original ones, so the same FCC testing documents still hold? --- End quote --- You are confusing the right to repair with the right to bodge. I can bodge whatever any time I want and I need no laws to protect that right. --- End quote --- Sorry, but he repairs a laptop for a customer. It goes from "not working" to "working". That is repairing. I have no problem with bodging stuff only which the people using them definitely know what the bodge is and what the risk of that bodge is. A general consumer cannot make the assessment on the risk that this bodge can produce. |
| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: robint91 on July 18, 2021, 05:40:27 pm ---For electronic and other consumer equipment that doesn't exist. The only thing that is the conformaty when the device is manufactured. --- End quote --- Every single product that gets out of the assembly line is tested for EMc in the same anechoic chamber its prototype was tested when it was certified by an accredited lab? |
| Fixed_Until_Broken:
--- Quote from: robint91 on July 18, 2021, 05:40:27 pm ---But for cars you have mandatory safety inspections. And those will get more intense with the increase in technology we punt into a car. --- End quote --- That depends on where you live. Here in Florida, we have zero vehicle inspections. I would also argue that the inspections actually get less intense with more tech because they just use the OBD2 port to do the whole inspection in some states and don't do a physical inspection. There is a huge market for Can-Bus filters that will spoof sensor data and pass inspections. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: robint91 on July 18, 2021, 05:40:27 pm ---But for cars you have mandatory safety inspections. And those will get more intense with the increase in technology we punt into a car. For electronic and other consumer equipment that doesn't exist. The only thing that is the conformaty when the device is manufactured. --- End quote --- Some places have mandatory inspections, some don't. Those that do don't tend to check in great detail and just basic conformity, which means passing cars and unsafe cars are far from mutually exclusive groups. Again, people are looking for issues while we have a lot of experience with such a system and it tends to work fairly well. |
| ataradov:
FCC does not care as much about a single modified unit. There are limits to this, of course, in case if intentional radiators, but generally it dos not matter. The same as RoHS. You can use leaded solder for repairs, nobody will fine you. The goal of those regulations is to prevent massive amounts of devices that are not compliant, and possibly can't even function when multiple of them are in a close proximity. Where do you have mandatory safety inspections? There are often exhaust compliance inspections, but I don't even know what that safety inspection would look like. |
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