Customer Support: 131 242

  • Shopping Cart
    There are no items in your cart
We noticed you’re not on the correct regional site. Switch to our AMERICAS site for the best experience.
Dismiss alert
Celebrate World Standards Day. Save 10% with code WSD2026 until 31 Oct. Save now

BS EN 60838-1 : 2017

Current

Current

The latest, up-to-date edition.

MISCELLANEOUS LAMPHOLDERS - PART 1: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND TESTS (IEC 60838-1:2016)

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-2017

$595.84
Including GST where applicable
Summarise this standard

FOREWORD
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General requirement
5 General conditions for tests
6 Classification
7 Marking
8 Protection against electric shock
9 Terminals
10 Provision for earthing
11 Construction
12 Moisture resistance, insulation resistance and
   electric strength
13 Mechanical strength
14 Screws, current-carrying parts and connections
15 Creepage distances and clearances
16 Endurance
17 Resistance to heat and fire
18 Resistance to excessive residual stresses
   (season cracking) and to rusting
Annex A (informative) - Lampholders covered by this standard
Annex B (normative) - Suitable metals
Annex C (normative) - Season cracking/corrosion test
Annex D (normative) - Pendulum impact test apparatus
Annex E (informative) - Schedule of amended clauses
        and subclauses containing more serious/critical
        requirements which require products to be retested
Bibliography
Annex ZA (normative) - Normative references to
         international publications with their
         corresponding European publications
Annex ZZ (informative) - Relationship between
         this European standard and the safety
         objectives of Directive 2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96]
         aimed to be covered

Pertains to lampholders of miscellaneous types intended for building-in (to be used with general purpose light sources, projection lamps, floodlighting lamps and street-lighting lamps with caps as listed in Annex A) and the methods of test to be used in determining the safe use of lamps in lampholders.

Committee
CPL/34/2
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes 01/207079 DC and 96/205370 DC. (07/2004) Supersedes 98/203399 DC & 03/314417 DC. (05/2005) Supersedes 97/203091 DC, 90/33328 DC & 95/206032 DC. (12/2005) Supersedes 07/30169012 DC. (04/2010) Supersedes 10/30215775 DC. (08/2011) Supersedes 13/30291353 DC. (05/2017) 2017 Edition Re-Issued in March 2018 & incorporates AMD 2 2018. Supersedes 15/30320184 DC. (04/2018)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
56
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current
Supersedes

$595.84
Including GST where applicable