Far be it from me to "nit-pick", but to say in a standard that "the tests specified in this annex SHOULD be carried out by the manufacturer on each luminaire after production", doesn't sound like a "normative" requirement. They should have used "SHALL".
But maybe it is an informative annex ? Regards, John Crabb, Development Excellence (Product Safety) , NCR Financial Solutions Group Ltd., Kingsway West, Dundee, Scotland. DD2 3XX E-Mail :[email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1382-592289 (direct ). Fax +44 (0)1382-622243. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 August 2001 15:13 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Manufacturing Hipot Testing I just found out the notes about the hipot testing. The standard is IEC 60598-1 Page 343 Annex Q "Conformity testing during manufacture". Under General para., "The tests specified in this annex should be carried out by the manufacturer on each luminaire after production and are intended to reveal, as far as safety is concerned, unacceptable variation in material and manufacture. These tests are intended not to impair the properties and the reliability of the luminaire, and they vary from certain type tests in the standard by the lower voltages utilised." is stated. For hipot test, it suggests a minimum voltage of 1.5 kV a.c. for a minimum of 1 s and maximum breakdown current 5 mA for class 1 luminaires and class 2 luminaires metal encased. Thanks and regards, Raymond Li ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
