Although the text of the Low Voltage Directive is the only legally binding, the "Guidelines on the application of council Directive 73/23/EEC", issued by the EU commission DG III, give the following information:
"Which products are covered? The Directive applies to all electrical equipment designed for use with a voltage rating of between 50 and 1000 V for ac and 75 and 1500 V for dc. Voltage ratings refer to the voltage of the electrical INPUT OR OUTPUT, not to voltages which may appear inside the equipment. Regards, |Doug, | |The dc to ac convertors that you have analyzed may be CE marked |to meet the EMC Directive but not the LVD since the supply input |is below the limits in the LVD. | |However, such equipment must still meet the General Product |Safety Directive (sorry I do not have the number available!). This |Directive is not a New Approach Directive and the CE |Mark/Declaration is therefore not valid. The Directive requires that |the product be safe. One such standard to evaluate safety is the |UPS standard. | |Good Luck, Peter | | | | |> A question to the experts: |> |> My company is considering using a portable DC to AC inverter as an accessory |> for one of our products, the product will be CE compliant bench top portable |> class one piece of equipment. This Inverter will be intended to be |> connected to the DC terminals of a 12 Volt automotive battery and has two |> North American 110V Outlets, it has a modified sine wave output, and is |> spec'ed to provide upto 300Watts of AC power. |> |> After looking at available off the shelf designs I found some that have some |> CE declarations, but after looking closely at these I found no mention of |> compliance to any Safety regulation but only EMC. |> |> My question is this, is it because the inverter has a low voltage input and |> they do not have to comply to a standard like EN61010 or UL1950, or is this |> something the manufacturers haven't addressed because no one has ever asked? |> |> ---------------------------------------------------- |> Douglas Best Compliance Technician |> IFR America's Inc. Design Engineering |> RF Division Tel : +1 316 529 5327 |> 10200 W. York St. FAX : +1 316 522 3676 |> Wichita Ks, 67215 e-mail: [email protected] |> ---------------------------------------------------- |> |> |> --------- |> This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. |> To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] |> with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the |> quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], |> [email protected], [email protected], or |> [email protected] (the list administrators). |> | | |PETER S. MERGUERIAN |MANAGING DIRECTOR |PRODUCT TESTING DIVISION |I.T.L. (PRODUCT TESTING) LTD. |HACHAROSHET 26, P.O.B. 211 |OR YEHUDA 60251, ISRAEL | |TEL: 972-3-5339022 |FAX: 972-3-5339019 |E-MAIL: [email protected] |Visit our Website: http://www.itl.co.il | |--------- |This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. |To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] |with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the |quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], |[email protected], [email protected], or |[email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
