I just remember the nightmare getting UL Certification on this Canadian 3 phase equipment to use in a US shop. Was very expensive, and time consuming. Was years ago, and never encountered it again. I just thought canada was all 50 hz. Never bothered to question it.
No problems. On the other hand, back in the mid 2000’s I worked crazy overtime getting a USA manufactured windmill farm ( installed in Canada) to get it CSA compliant ( the equivalent of UL standard in the USA).
At the start of this project, back then I was installation manager, I raised many flags and send a crazy amount of email to the project managment team stating that the produxt will not be able to go on grid as many things, to my eyes anyway, we not going to fly with the CSA inspetor. Not did I know anything back then about the code, but I just finsihed a project in Eatern Ontario then and we wnt theough the wholse CSA campliance show!
Then the Alberta project was under sone west coast PM.
Anyway, no one ever replied to my emails and questions about the CSA standard , then 1 week before final commissioning. We were seeking permission to go live with approx 50 MW of power, so the locall grid authority send an inspector for the CSA certification, and we miserably failed ! At the moment, I was so pissed cause I spent month warning upper management about this exact moment!
But a few days down the road, I realized that this would give me and my team 3 months of extra work , retrofitting these wind generator to CSA standard, while there was no other job on the go for the compant in Canada, so I ended up enjoying the fact that no one have listen to me, the extra « gravy » months paid , at the time, the used Duramax I got there 6 months earlier
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