Wattage keeps the UN 38.3 test summary for every product with a lithium cell or battery, checks it element by element against the rule, and will not clear a SKU to ship while any element is missing or any test is not a pass.
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The problem
Each manufacturer and subsequent distributor of lithium cells or batteries must make a test summary available, with a fixed list of elements: the maker and the test lab with full contact details, a unique report number and date, the cell’s description, every test and its result, the UN Manual edition used, and a responsible person. A store reselling a rechargeable toy under its own name is in that chain.
for lithium cells and batteries manufactured on or after January 1, 2008, each manufacturer and subsequent distributor must make a test summary available.
49 CFR 173.185 →from the maker’s email to the watt-hour rating to the name and title of a responsible person.
49 CFR 173.185 →Not a reminder. Clear to ship refuses, listing every missing element, while a SKU has no test summary, the summary lacks any element the rule lists, or any of tests T1 to T8 is not a pass — only overcharge and forced discharge may be not applicable, with a reason. A cleared SKU is frozen. There is no override.
How it works
For the test summary for the exact cell or battery in the product.
Every element, as the summary gives it, and each test’s result.
When nothing is missing, clear it to ship. The summary is on file to hand over on request.
What it will never do
Wattage checks the summary you are given against the rule.
Pricing
Less than one returned pallet.
One brand’s rechargeable range.
A retailer reselling many brands.
Monthly subscription. Your bank statement says Wattage Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.
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Questions
Button cells installed in equipment, including circuit boards, are excepted from the summary. Wattage tracks whatever you add.
Wattage allows only overcharge (T7) and forced discharge (T8) to be marked not applicable, and asks for the reason.
No. It is the summary file a carrier or a customer will ask for, kept complete.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
The bullet is cleared. The wand’s summary names no test lab. The trainer failed its short-circuit test and its UN Manual edition is blank, and the couples ring has no summary at all.