EN IEC 60730-1 applies to automatic electrical controls for use in, on, or in association with equipment for household and similar use. The equipment may use electricity, gas, oil, solid fuel, solar thermal energy, etc., or a combination thereof. The requirements for applicable devices under the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU can be met using this as an applicable standard, complaint with manufacturers risk assessment.
This standard is applicable to controls for building automation within the scope of ISO 16484. EN IEC 60730-1 also applies to automatic electrical controls for equipment that may be used by the public, such as equipment intended to be used in shops, offices, hospitals, farms and commercial and industrial applications. An example would be controls for commercial catering, heating and air-conditioning equipment.
EN IEC 60730-1 is also applicable to individual controls utilized as part of a control system or controls which are mechanically integral with multifunctional controls having non-electrical outputs. This standard is also applicable to relays when used as controls for EN IEC 60335 appliances. This standard is intended to be used for the testing of any stand-alone relay which is intended to be used as a control of an appliance according to EN IEC 60335-1. It is not intended to be used for any other stand-alone relay, or to replace the IEC 61810 series of standards.
This standard may not apply to automatic electrical controls intended exclusively for industrial process applications unless explicitly mentioned in the relevant part 2 or the equipment standard.
EN IEC 60730-1 applies to controls powered by primary or secondary batteries, requirements for which are contained within the standard, including those referenced in Annex V.
This International Standard applies to the inherent safety, to the operating values, operating times, and operating sequences where such are associated with equipment safety, and to the testing of automatic electrical control devices used in, or in association with, equipment and is also applicable to the functional safety of low complexity safety related systems and controls.
Additional examples of equipment or devices applicable for this standard include automatic electrical controls, mechanically or electrically operated, responsive to or controlling such characteristics as temperature, pressure, passage of time, humidity, light, electrostatic effects, flow, liquid level, current, voltage, acceleration, or combinations thereof.
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