All, I have it secondhand that the LED requirements have been deleted from the next iteration of IEC 60825, making IEC 60825-6 obsolete as Peter suggested. The next version of the IEC 60825-1 standard is due out in late '06 or early '07
-- Doug Nix, A.Sc.T. IEEE PSES Waterloo Region Canada [email protected] > From: "Tarver, Peter" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:14:25 -0700 > To: PSTC 1 <[email protected]> > Subject: IEC 62471 -v- IEC 60825-6 > > I'd appreciate a word (or thousand) from a member of TC76, WG9 (Mr. > Hughes?) on the recently issued: > > IEC 62471:2006, Photobiological safety of lamps and lamp systems > > Scope: > > This International Standard gives guidance for evaluating the > photobiological safety of lamps and lamp systems including luminaires. > Specifically it specifies the exposure limits, reference measurement > technique and classification scheme for the evaluation and control of > photobiological hazards from all electrically powered incoherent > broadband sources of optical radiation, ***including LEDs*** [emphasis > added] but excluding lasers, in the wavelength range from 200 nm through > 3000 nm. > > and the overlap with IEC 60825-6. Is IEC 62471 to make IEC 60825-6 > obsolete? > > > > Regards, > > Peter L. Tarver, PE > [email protected] > > > CONFIDENTIALITY > This e-mail message and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by > the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or > confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail > message, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this e-mail message, and any attachments thereto, is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please > immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any > copies of this email and any prints thereof. > ABSENT AN EXPRESS STATEMENT TO THE CONTRARY HEREINABOVE, THIS E-MAIL IS NOT > INTENDED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A WRITING. Notwithstanding the Uniform > Electronic Transactions Act or the applicability of any other law of similar > substance and effect, absent an express statement to the contrary hereinabove, > this e-mail message its contents, and any attachments hereto are not intended > to represent an offer or acceptance to enter into a contract and are not > otherwise intended to bind the sender, Sanmina-SCI Corporation (or any of its > subsidiaries), or any other person or entity. > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Scanned by Sanmina-SCI eShield > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society > emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > > To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] > > Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html > > List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > > Scott Douglas [email protected] > Mike Cantwell [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > David Heald: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
