Home appliances without UL listing
The wife is looking for a new range and was showing me some comparison shopping that she had done. One of the columns was "UL LISTING". I was surprised that several of them had "NO" next to it. I seem to remember that almost all household appliances had this listing. I work in the petroleum equipment industry and we are constantly having updates to UL status. Is this the new normal? These are name brand appliances coming from large stores so its not some backdoor kind of deal. Would you purchase a major home appliance without a UL listing?
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UL listing is not required for anything by law. Most sellers/companies would sell UL listed items because it USED to be a sign of safety.
There are many electrical appliances that meet British/Canada testing, but are not UL listing.
Yes I would would use a non-listed item. BUT I don't like any electrical item made in China--- pure garbage.0 -
chinee MFN status on display..and i read that only 1/10thof 1.0% of all chinee imports are inspected in any way 0 -
There are other test laboratories, but UL is the most commonly recognized one in the US.
"Brand names" are no longer meaningful if you are buying household appliances. Most are made in China, Mexico, or some other 3rd world bleep hole country. Quality is almost uniformly poor. Ironically, even spending a lot of money doesn't guaranty that what you get will last long.
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UL Listing means that UL has tested representative samples of a product and determined that the product meets specific defined requirements. It is not a quality control label. If a product is not manufactured the way it was tested by UL then it doesn't mean a thing. It can still kill you.
I used to work for a sign company that had UL stickers on the backs of their electrical lighted signs. I've seen lots of them coming down the assembly line with the wire nuts off the wire connections that would light you up if you were to touch it when it was plugged in.0
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