Clipsal / C-Bus in North Amerrica (USA)

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    industeq

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    In question on why the USA has a limited amount of Clipsal products.
    I am very new to Clipsal and just learning what is what.
    Being a long time user of Square D brand products and do know all is under the parent umbrella of Schneider Electric.

    Since I downloaded the latest C-bus Toolkit to my amusement the USA market has only about 1/3 of Clipsal products available worldwide.

    Is this because of the required UL listing here in the states or the 220VAC overseas instead of the USA 110VAC or a combination of both.

    Thanks
    Alan
     
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    Hi Alan

    The answers are:
    - UL testing takes a long time... moving the products through is slow going but it's getting there

    - Some of the products are 220/240V only (though not many)

    - And most importantly, the sales and commercial people decide which products they want to sell in a country - and then those are available but not the rest.

    Taking a specific example: C-Bus Wireless has a lot of products in the catalog. The nature of the products is that these are only for 220/240V markets. In some cases, those products are even country specific. (For example, there is a product only for South Africa). USA versions of those products are coming, however you will continue to see the rest-of-the-world products as well.
     
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