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Competitor product (Mains LED driver) fails UK Mains harmonics...who do we speak to?

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We have a competitor product which is an offline 150W LED driver. It fails mains harmonics according to UK/EU standards.
The Electricity supply network of the UK is owned by the French, so does that mean that we are wasting our time taking this product to our UK minister for industry to make a complaint? Must we take it to the French owner of the UK Electricity supply network?

Its a sobering thought that every mains network cable, pylon, switching station, and transformer substation in the UK is not owned by the UK, and is under entire control and ownership of a different country.
 

??? Is EDA now a substitute for Hyde Park Corner or are you genuinely asking a question, treez?

Maybe you could get Which to start a petition to have the offending product withdrawn, or contact Trading Standards in the country of sale.
 
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Thanks, it is a genuine question.
But to be honest, we would never want to report our competitor and get them into trouble. Instead we want to know if there is some clause, or relaxation in the regulations, which allows people to sell failing products?. We want to know this because we also have a particular product which is very cheap to make but fails electrical regulations, so therefore, we want to know if there is some way that we can sell this ourselves?

??? Is EDA now a substitute for Hyde Park Corner or are you genuinely asking a question, treez?
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I am sure that you , like myself, find it interesting that the country (UK) that is said to have invented electricity (under Michael Faraday), and also virtually invented the Nuclear power industry , now does not even own its Electrical supply network.
 
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In my opinion, it seems improbable that there are exceptions for products that fail any kind of regulations - just imagine the ramifications in every sector. One possibility is importing such a product and slipping through the net; another could be massaging test results on paper; another could be that it was designed before a specific regulation was put in place and hasn't been redesigned to reflect this, or that something designed before a certain date is exempt (unlikely, perhaps); ... or that the analysis done for your company was incorrect and the product doesn't fail the mentioned standards; maybe even unfortunately you only tested one part that by sheer coincidence was defective in that respect.
 
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