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wizard69:
--- Quote from: phaseform on January 26, 2020, 07:57:34 pm ---If I wanted to put about $10 worth of components into a mains voltage enclosure and validate it for retail sale, is there an estimate as to the cost of that?
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Without knowing what those $10 dollars worth of goods do, there can not be a reasonable answer to this question. If it is mains connected in the USA you would want it UL qualified. That can be very cheap if it is a lamp or far more complex and expensive.
In any event you really shouldn't build and sell anything until you have a corporation setup and have a good insurance policy paid for. Actually you should consult a good lawyer that understands the liability position you will be in. So setting up the business will be an expense separate from the act of getting a product qualified for the local regulations. So buisness setup could easily be between $5000 & $10,000 and validation of the hardware could be anywhere between $0 and $500,000
By the way these costs have stopped many from starting up a business, this includes me. You really need to have money in the bank, rich friends or relatives or other sources of start up capital.
phaseform:
ok cool, thanks for the heads up. This is the same for products sold from outside the US into the US market online? Perhaps https://www.crowdsupply.com/ may be a good source of info
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