This Standard specifies the general safety requirements for, or with respect to, equipment (including fittings, accessories, appliances and apparatus) of classes and types that are used in, or intended for use in, or in connection with, electrical installations in buildings, structures, and premises. It is not applicable to an appliance within the scope of AS/NZS 60335.1 or a part 2 of this standard, except where an approval and test specification makes reference to this standard.
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope, application and referenced documents
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application
1.3 Referenced documents
2 Definitions
2.1 General
3 Design and construction
3.1 General
3.2 Equipment to be suitable for conditions of use
3.3 Selection of materials and parts
3.4 Selection of components
3.5 Workman ship
3.6 Fuses
3.6.1 Accessibility and shrouding
3.6.2 Mounting
3.7 Identification of wiring
3.8 Regulating devices and switches
3.8.1 Fixing and mounting
3.8.2 Visual indications of positions
3.8.3 Voltage and current limitation
3.8.4 Switches for transportable machinery
3.8.5 Switches
3.8.6 Electronic regulating devices and switches
3.9 Socket-outlets
3.10 Equipment intended to be supported by contacts of socket-outlets
3.11 Static charge in equipment
3.12 Control methods
3.13 Stability
3.14 Equipment connected to supply by a plug
3.15 Capacitors
3.16 Metal Oxide Varistors incorporated in accessories
3.16 Varistors
3.17 Incorporated power supplies
3.17.1 General
3.17.2 Single Fault Conditions
3.17.3 Temperature Consideration
3.17.4 Over voltage category
3.17.5 Capacitors Bridging Reinforced Insulation:
3.17.6 Determination of Ignitibility and Combustion Propagation
4 Protection against mechanical and electrical failure
4.1 Prevention of short-circuit and arcing
4.1.1 General
4.1.2 Segregation of internal wiring
4.1.3 Creepage distances and clearances for appliances
4.1.4 Additional requirements for appliances
4.1.4.1 General
4.1.4.2 Printed circuit boards
4.1.4.3 Distances through insulation
4.1.4.4 Insulation in sheet form
4.1.4.5 Supplementary insulation and reinforced insulation
4.2 Mechanical protection of conductors and cables
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Adjacent material
4.2.3 Passage for conductors
4.2.4 Protection near moving parts
4.2.5 Unprotected conductors with fibrous insulation
4.3 Terminals and connecting facilities for supply conductors
4.3.1 Connecting facilities required
4.3.2 Design and construction of terminals
4.3.3 Location of terminals
4.3.4 Terminal arrangements
4.3.5 Soldered connections
4.3.6 Prevention of slipping or spreading of conductors
4.3.7 Earthing conductors
4.3.8 Conductors and terminals not to be stressed
4.3.9 Temperature at terminals
4.3.10 Access to terminal devices
4.4 Flexible cord and connecting plug
4.4.1 When required
4.4.2 Warning notice
4.5 Supply connection and external flexible cables and cords
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Provision for entry of flexible cord
4.5.3 Cord anchorage
4.5.4 Protection of supply flexible cord
4.5.5 Interconnection cables and cords
4.6 Joints and connections
4.6.1 Joints and insulation
4.6.2 Soldered joints
4.6.3 Limitations of soldered joints
4.6.4 Joints and connections in lighting fittings
4.6.5 Solderless joints
4.6.6 Cascading of adaptors
4.7 Strength of screw threads and fixings
4.8 Space-threaded and thread-cutting screws
4.9 Direct connection to fixed wiring
4.10 Mechanical strength
4.11 Degree of protection (IP classification)
4.12 Equipment incorporating batteries
5 Protection against risk of electric shock
5.1 Guarding of live parts
5.1.1 Class II construction
5.2 Insulation of live parts
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 Separation of live parts from non-current-carrying conductive parts
5.2.3 Equipment wiring
5.2.3.1 General requirements
5.2.3.2 Specific requirements – PVC insulation
5.2.3.3 Specific requirements – fibrous insulation
5.2.4 Arrangement of equipment wiring
5.3 Earthing facilities
5.3.1 Exposed metal parts to have means of earthing
5.3.2 Method of making the earth connection
5.3.3 Design and construction of earthing terminal
5.3.4 Resistance of earthing connection
5.3.5 Printed conductors
5.4 Equipment with double insulation
5.4.1 General
5.4.2 Supplementary insulation
5.4.3 Basic insulation
5.4.4 Reinforced insulation
5.4.5 External metal parts
5.4.6 Detachable covers
5.4.7 Arrangement of equipment wiring
5.4.8 Insulation of internal wiring
5.4.9 Openings in external metal walls
5.4.10 Radio interference suppression devices
5.5 Extra-low voltage equipment
5.6 Switches in portable heating appliances
5.7 Temperature rises for components and insulating material
5.8 Fault-indicating devices
5.9 Fixing of handles, knobs, or the like
6 Resistance to heat, fire and tracking
6.1 General
6.2 Resistance to heat
6.3 Resistance to fire
6.4 Resistance to tracking
7 Marking
7.1 Information to be marked
7.2 Method of marking
7.3 Double marking
7.4 Marking of earth connections
7.5 Marking of Class II equipment
7.6 Marking of live supply connections
7.7 Additional marking of multi-rated equipment
7.8 Equipment with Type X, Type Y and Type Z attachments
7.9 Legibility of marking
7.10 Instructions for installation and use
8 Tests
8.1 General
8.2 Void
8.3 Insulation resistance and leakage current
8.3.1 Insulation resistance
8.3.2 Leakage current test
8.4 High voltage (electric strength) test
8.4.1 Between live parts
8.4.2 Equipment with earthing facilities
8.4.3 Equipment with double insulation
8.4.4 Non-conducting external parts
8.4.5 Method of applying test
8.4.6 Number of samples
8.5 Test of earthing connection
8.6 Cord anchorage
8.7 Test for screw threads and fixings (See Clause 4.7)
8.7.1 Threaded fastenings of metal in metal or thermosetting plastic or wood, or the like
8.7.2 Threaded fastenings with any component of thermoplastic material
8.8 Mechanical strength test
8.8.1 General
8.8.2 Spring-operated impact-test apparatus
8.8.3 Procedure
8.8.4 Criteria
8.9 Standard electrodes for electric strength tests
8.10 Standard test finger and protective impedance
8.10.1 General
8.10.2 Design and construction
8.10.3 Method of use
8.10.4 Protective impedance
8.11 Temperature measurements
8.11.1 Methods of measurement
8.11.2 Thermometer method
8.11.3 Thermocouple method
8.11.4 Increase-of-resistance method
8.11.5 Measurement of ambient temperature
8.11.6 Maximum temperature rise
8.12 Temperature and fire risk test
8.13 Test of marking
8.14 Stability test
8.15 Abnormal operation
8.15.1 General
8.15.2 Heating equipment test
8.15.3 Locked-rotor test
8.15.4 Equipment with three-phase motors
8.15.5 Running overload test
8.15.6 Equipment for short-time or intermittent operation
