EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61984 NORME EUROPEENNE June 2009 EUROPAISCHE NORM ICS 31.220.10 Supersedes EN 61984:2001 English version Connectors - Safety requirements and tests (IEC 61984:2008) Connecteurs Steckverbinder - Exigences de sécurité et essais Sicherheitsanforderungen und Prufungen (CEI 61984:2008) (IEC 61984:2008) This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2009-06-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member. language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions. Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Comité Europeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique Europaisches Komitee fur Elektrotechnische Normung Central Secretariat: Avenue Marnix 17, B - 1000 Brussels @ 2009 CENELEC - Ref.No.EN 61984:2009 E EN 61984:2009 (E) - 2 Foreword The text of document 48B/1927/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61984, prepared by SC 48B, Connectors, of IE TC 48, Electromechanical components and mechanical structures for electronic equipment, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved by CENELEC as EN 61984 on 2009-06-01. This European Standard supersedes EN 61984:2001. EN 61984:2009 includes the following significant technical changes with respect to EN 61984:2001: addition in the scope of the statement that this standard may be used as a guide for connectors with rated current higher than 125 A per pole; new definitions added and improvement of existing definitions; in Clause 5, the classification referred to protection against electric shock and that of connector for class Il equipment were added; in 6.4 (Protection against electric shock), it is clarified that all parts which are necessary to ensure protection against electric shock shall only be removable by the aid of a tool; Table 2 and Table 3 are added for better readability and connecting methods updated to current status of standardization; values for cable clamp testing in Table 6 are adopted according to EN 50262 and no tests are required if metric cable glands according to this standard are used; tables in 6.19 are deleted and the text refers to EN 60664; Table 7 (Values for torque for screw-type clamping units) in 7.1.4 of EN 61984:2001 is deleted and the text refers to the relevant standards; connecting cable and conductor loops are added. Test arrangements for temperature rise test for two-part printed board connectors are fixed; Figure 2 (Device for bending test) transferred from 7.3.8 (Mechanical operation) of EN 61984:2001 to 7.3.10 (Bending (flexing) test) of EN 61984:2009; in Table 10 (Mechanical test group A) test phase A3, the severity or conditions for unenclosed and enclosed connectors are specified; the informative Annex B (Additional information on connector classification) with its Tables B.1 readability of the standard. The following dates were fixed: latest date by which the EN has to be implemented at national level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2010-03-01 latest date by which the national standards conflicting (dow) 2012-06-01 with the EN have to be withdrawn Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC. EN 61984:2009 (E) - 3 - Endorsement notice The text of the International Standard IEC 61984:2008 was approved by CENELEC as a European Standard without any modification IEC 6