On February 10, 2016 this law, commonly referred to as DoE Level VI, went into effect. In Europe, the EU’s proposed CoC Tier 2 directive, which is even more stringent, looks set to become mandatory Ecodesign rules in January 2018.
“Digi-Key continues to be committed to supporting our engineers and customers as they strive to keep their designs compliant with the latest regulations,” said Tom Busher, VP, Global I P & E at Digi-Key. “CUI has taken a leadership role in addressing the increasing concerns for no-load and active mode power consumption of external adapters. We are honored to have worked closely with them to develop a variety of efficiency standard resources that will help keep customers informed, in addition to getting compliant products to market faster.”