EN 61293:1994

Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety requirements

Establishes minimum requirements and general rules on marking electrical equipment with ratings and other characteristics to enable the proper and safe selection and installation of electrical equipment related to any supply of electricity. Has the status of a basic safety publication in accordance with IEC Guide 104.

Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit Bemessungsdaten für die Stromversorgung - Anforderungen für die Sicherheit

Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées relatives à l'alimentation électrique - Prescriptions de sécurité

Etablit les prescriptions minimales et les régles générales pour le marquage des matériels électriques relatif aux caractéris- tiques assignées et autres caractéristiques, afin de permettre de choisir et d'installer, de manière adéquate et sûre, le matériel électrique adapté à n'importe quelle alimentation. A le statut d'une publication fondamentale de sécurité conformément au Guide 104.

Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety requirements (IEC 61293:1994)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 18-Sep-1994
• Withdrawal Date: 30-Jun-1995
• ICS: 29.020 - Electrical engineering in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/SR 3 - Information structures, documentation and graphical symbols
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 3 - IEC_TC_3
• Parallel Committee: IEC/TC 16 - IEC_TC_16
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Start Date: 10-Apr-2023
• Completion Date: 10-Apr-2023
• Directive: 2006/95/EC - Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (codified version)
• Directive: 2014/35/EU - Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Directive: 2014/53/EU - Directive 2014/53/EU of The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
• Directive: 73/23/EEC - Electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61293:1999 - Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety requirements

Relations

• Replaced By: EN IEC 61293:2020 - Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety requirements
• Effective Date: 28-Nov-2017

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-julij-1999
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety
requirements (IEC 61293:1994)
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety
requirements
Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit Bemessungsdaten für die
Stromversorgung - Anforderungen für die Sicherheit
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées relatives à
l'alimentation électrique - Prescriptions de sécurité
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61293:1994
ICS:
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

INTERNATIONAL IEC
STANDARD 61293
First edition
1994-06
Marking of electrical equipment
with ratings related to electrical supply –
Safety requirements
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1293 ©IEC:1994 — 3 —
CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD
Clause
1 Scope 7
2 Normative references 7
3 Marking requirements 9
3.1 Basic requirements
Marking of electrical equipment with its characteristics 3.2
3.3 Sequence of rated values and other characteristics
3.4 Representation of values
4 Application
Annexes
A Examples
B Bibliography
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1293 ©IEC:1994
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
MARKING OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
WITH RATINGS RELATED TO ELECTRICAL SUPPLY -
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
FOREWORD
The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) is a worldwide organization for standardization
1)
comprising all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of the IEC is to
promote international cooperation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and
electronic fields. To this end and in addition to other activities, the IEC publishes International Standards.
Their preparation is entrusted to technical committees; any IEC National Committee interested in
the subject dealt with may participate in this preparatory work. International, governmental and
non-governmental organizations liaising with the IEC also participate in this preparation. The IEC
collaborates closely with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in accordance with
conditions determined by agreement between the two organizations.
2) The formal decisions or agreements of the IEC on technical matters, prepared by technical committees on
which all the National Committees having a special interest therein are represented, express, as nearly as
possible, an international consensus of opinion on the subjects dealt with.
3) They have the form of recommendations for international use published in the form of standards, technical
reports or guides and they are accepted by the National Committees in that sense.
4) In order to promote international unification, IEC National Committees undertake to apply IEC International
Standards transparently to the maximum extent possible in their national and regional standards. Any
divergence between the IEC Standard and the corresponding national or regional standard shall be clearly
indicated in the latter.
The IEC provides no marking procedure to indicate its approval and cannot be rendered responsible for any
5)
equipment declared to be in conformity with one of its standards.
International Standard IEC 1293 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 16:
Terminal markings and other identifications.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
Report on voting
DIS
16(CO)77
16(CO)75
rt
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the repo
on voting indicated in the above table.
Annexes A and B are for information only.

1293©IEC:1994 - 7 -
MARKING OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
WITH RATINGS RELATED TO ELECTRICAL SUPPLY -
SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
1 Scope
This International Standard establishes minimum requirements (see note 1) and general
rules on marking electrical equipment (see note 2) with ratings and other characteristics to
enable the proper and safe selection and installation of electrical equipment related to any
supply of electricity.
The object of this standard is to:
- provide general requirements for marking of the characteristics related to any
supply system, such as voltage, current, frequency and power without any restrictions;
provide technical committees with uniform methods for the marking of electrical
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ratings of products.
This basic safety publication is for general application by relevant technical committees
when specifying minimum markings of ratings related to any electrical supply of
equipment, sub-assemblies and components. Relevant technical committees may specify
additional requirements for the marking of supply characteristics.
NOTES
1 For further markings see ISO/IEC Guide 51 [1]*.
2 For the definition of electrical equipment see IEC 50(826).
2 Normative references
The following standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute
provisions of this International Standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated
were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this
International Standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most
recent editions of the standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers
of currently valid International Standards.
IEC 27: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology
IEC standard voltages
IEC 38: 1983,
International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Chapter 826:
IEC 50(826): 1982,
Electrical installations of buildings
Amendment No. 1 (1990)
Figures in square brackets refer to the bibliography given in annex B.

1293 ©IEC:1994 - 9 -
IEC 417: 1973, Supplement G (1985) - Supplement K (1991), Graphical symbols for use
on equipment. Index, survey and compilation of the single sheets
IEC 445: 1988, Identification of equipment terminals and of terminations of certain
designated conductors, including genera! rules for an alphanumeric system
IEC 617: Graphical symbols for diagrams
2: Symbol elements, qualifying
IEC 617-2: 1983, Graphical symbols for diagrams - Pa rt
symbols and other symbols having general application
rt 1: General
IEC 1082-1: 1991, Preparation of documents used in electrotechnology - Pa
requirements
ISO 31-0: 1992, Quantities and units - Part O: General principles
ISO 1000: 1992, S! units and recommendations for the use of their multiples and of certain
other units
ISO 7000: 1989, Graphical symbols for use on equipment - Index and synopsis
3 Marking requirements
3.1 Basic requirements
Electrical equipment shall be marked with electrical ratings on the equipment by a suitable
method, for example, by means of name-plates or labels. This marking shall be legible,
visible and durable throughout the anticipated life of the equipment. Marking shall not be
rt of an enclosure which is intended
placed on pa rts intended to be removed, unless it is pa
to be removed to install the equipment and must be replaced (see notes 1, 2 and 3).
Some equipment has a need for marking both input and output characteristics. In such
cases consideration shall be given by the relevant techni
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