EN/IEC 60065 is suitable for this equipment and arguably EN/IEC60950-1 is also suitable. They both address safety issues in the form of fault conditions resulting in excessive battery charging and discharging currents. Circuit designs to prevent the above conditions are fairly simple but it's a pain going through the whole standard to verify compliance!
Note that the R&TTE directive addresses safety and covers battery operated radio comms devices which are often battery operated, and the above standards are harmonised under this directive. Andy Clifford Conformance Ltd - Product safety, approvals and CE-marking consultants The Old Methodist Chapel, Great Hucklow, Buxton, SK17 8RG England Tel. +44 1298 873800, Fax. +44 1298 873801, www.conformance.co.uk Registered in England, Company No. 3478646 From: Scott Xe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 July 2009 15:38 To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] How to determine if battery-operated product is safe or not We have an USB rechargeable battery-operated video clip/MP3 player. As battery-operated products do not fall into LVD directive, what can we apply the basis to determine the product safe or not? Looking at historical safety hazard reports on the market, there was not much any recall on this type of products except the explosion of rechargeable battery pack. However, the possible explosion of rechargeable battery pack cannot be picked up by LVD directive or dedicated UL1642/2054 battery cell/pack standards. Otherwise, Sony did not need to recall millions of battery packs and the said standards are not required the review. What is potential hazard do we need to look at this type of products? As the safety hazard is tied with power energy, is there any reference that there is no safety concern if the power energy is below certain level? Thanks, Scott - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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]>
