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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: is the Amiga UL approved
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 15:05:07 EDT
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>Our local Amiga dealers still have not received any machines
>and they are giving the excuse that the Amiga is not yet UL
>approved. Apparently North Carolina has a 'UL Law' which
>prohibits the selling of non UL approved devices.

>Can anyone else confirm this ?

  I checked with the NC Insurance Commission on this one.  It's
close, but not quite the whole story.  This is what I understood
from them.
  All electrical equipment sold in the state *must* be approved
by the *local* electrical inspector.  The law is that the electrical
inspector *must* approve of anything approved by UL *or* another
appropriate 3rd party lab (Applied Research Labs and Eletrical
Testing Labs are on the list.)  Any electrical equipment not
approved by such a lab *must* have the local electrical inspector's
approval - but since most (all?) don't have the lab to do it, they
won't do it.
--henry schaffer