RE: Even more homebuilt charger madness

["Roger Stockton" <rstockton@delta-q.com>]

Hi Rich,

Believe me, I'm not suggesting that your product itself
is/will be unsafe.  I just don't believe common sense is
actually common enough that I would want to sell a
product in the US market that relies on it!

Even if you don't submit the product for UL certification
(which is after all, the costly bit) until landing an OEM
order, you might still want to consider shipping them
somehow strapped to limit them to 1320W input on 110VAC
and include a note describing how to defeat this
limit "ONLY" for operation off 30A 110V or 240V circuits,
etc. so that in the [hopefully unlikely] event that something
happens, you as manufacturer can point to the user as having
conciously defeated the safety and used the product contrary
to the manufacturer's instructions...

Cheers,

Roger.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ev@listproc.sjsu.edu [mailto:owner-ev@listproc.sjsu.edu] On
Behalf Of Rich Rudman
Sent: August 31, 2001 9:06 AM
To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: Re: Even more homebuilt charger madness

[snip]

Yup I know that. 
	there is implied risk here. My stuff is going to be aLOT safer
than a Bad boy and a Variac. Adequate protection and common sense is a
must.

As I have said OEM orders will make me head to UL. But I have to run
before I fly.

I am sure this EV market doesn't want me to drop a few hundred grand on
doing the UL, and then passing the costs along to the first Dozzen
customers.

[snip]

Rich Rudman
Manzanita Micro