The following's a comment from someone at UL. . . "ETL is UL's competitor. Actually I think they're doing business as Inchcape or Intertek now. Some local jurisdictions require UL Listed products and won't accept ETL products. Generally speaking, ETL evaluates products to UL standards or the standards of some other organization-but ETL's evaluation is not as thorough as UL's. I always look for the UL mark - " Sharen Rund Bloechl Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Sunnyvale Data Center <mailto:sharen.rund_bloechl@lmco.com> sharen.rund_bloechl@lmco.com Phone: 408-756-5432 [or] Fax: 408-756-0912 <mailto:srund@svl.ems.lmco.com> srund@svl.ems.lmco.com LMnet: 8-326-5432 Pager: 408-539-5146 web: <http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi> http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi [or] Operator Assist: 1-800-725-5079, pin 408-539-5146 ---------- From: Parkhurst, Scott Contractor [SMTP:PARKHURS@LEAV-EMH1.ARMY.MIL] Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 12:55 AM To: CH List Subject: [CH] RE: the cheapie dehydrator >From: Suzanne >I did my first run with my BigLots dehydrator. There is >no fan so it seems to take a long time (about a day to dry habs, maybe >longer), but it worked and the peppers are crisp and smell wonderful. I got one of those cheapies... you're right, they do take a LONG time, 36 hours for 4 trays of anchos/habs. Still, the price is right and it will be of help when harvests overwhelm my Mr. Coffee<tm> model. One note on the cheapie... it is NOT UL listed, (Underwriters Laboratory) but is labeled as ETL listed. Anybody know of this ETL? Scott... KCK