Dear colleagues

I have a question regarding touch current limit of IEC 60950?

We can read from table 5A of IEC60950:1999:

Touch current limit for accessible parts and circuits not connected 

to protective earth: 0.25 mA

question 1 : How does it (0.25mA) come from and what  it is based on?

based on IEC479? OR other source
why it is not 0.5mA(based on IEC60479)

question 2 :for hand-held equipment it is 0.75mA
why ?

Please shed some light for above questions


Any comments are appreciated

Best Regards


Xing weibing

2002-06-24

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