Curious if anyone has any expertise or knows: So Stern/Jersey Jack/Chicago gaming are UL certified manufacturers. Homepin/Spooky are not listed. Curious what people's thoughts on this are. Even if they are using off the shelf UL certified parts, there are still standards on wiring and where you can place certain A/C voltages and what not.

I know its not required legally to be certified, but for how much money Spooky has made, I'd think the small fee to get certified would have been smart.

Thanks for the responses.

UL gave me a quote and it was extremely inexpensive (cheaper than the cost of a new Toy Story pinball machine). And that includes on-site testing of your product. Pinball schematics are very simple, so I'm curious to see really how long the full process takes for approval.

For sure, I'm lookin at this from the business side. For insurance/legal reasons even if some kid decides to try self-repair and touches the A/C power supply and something happens, better to be on the safe side. There is a fairly recent video of Stern's Gomez talking about power supply placement to make UL happy, so they seem to at least be on top of the standards even today.

Haven't looked much into CE but that is interesting if they don't test.

Here is the Gomez video I referenced.

bdw85, good info. I will definitely get to the bottom of what they are quoting. If it's really that annoying and costly then yea I'll skip it. I'll definitely grab a copy of the standards at least so that we have done due diligence in safety.