EN 62561-4:2017

Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4: Requirements for conductor fasteners

IEC 62561-4:2017 deals with the requirements and tests for metallic and non-metallic conductor fasteners that are used to retain and support the air-termination, down-conductor and earth-termination systems. This document does not cover the fixing of conductor fasteners to the fabric of structures due to the vast number and types used in modern day construction. LPSC can also be suitable for use in hazardous atmospheres. There are therefore additional requirements when installing the components in such conditions. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition, published in 2010. This edition constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition: - new detailed flow chart of the tests; - in Annexes A and B, composite fasteners have been added.

Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 4: Anforderungen an Leitungshalter

Composants de systèmes de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) - Partie 4: Exigences pour les fixations de conducteur

L'IEC 62561-4:2017 spécifie les exigences et les essais pour les fixations métalliques et non métalliques de conducteurs utilisées pour maintenir et supporter les dispositifs de capture, les conducteurs de descente et les prises de terre. Le présent document ne traite pas de la fixation de ces supports sur les structures d'édifice en raison du grand nombre de solutions modernes de construction. Les CSPF peuvent aussi être employés dans des atmosphères dangereuses. Il existe donc des exigences supplémentaires pour installer les composants dans de telles conditions. Cette deuxième édition annule et remplace la première édition publiée en 2010. Cette édition constitue une révision technique. Cette édition inclut les modifications techniques majeures suivantes par rapport à l'édition précédente: - nouveau logigramme détaillé des essais; - dans les Annexes A et B, ajout des fixations en composite.

Elementi sistema za zaščito pred strelo (LPSC) - 4. del: Zahteve za pritrdilne elemente

Ta del standarda IEC 62561 obravnava zahteve in preskuse za kovinske ter nekovinske pritrditve vodnikov, ki se uporabljajo za vzdrževanje in podporo lovilnega, odvodnega ter ozemljitvenega sistema.
Ta dokument ne zajema pritrditve vodnikov na material zgradb zaradi velikega števila in vrst, ki se danes uporabljajo v gradbeništvu.
Elementi za zaščito pred strelo (LPSC) so lahko primerni tudi za uporabo v nevarnih ozračjih. Zaradi tega glede namestitve sestavnih delov v takih pogojih obstajajo dodatne zahteve.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 30-Nov-2017
• Withdrawal Date: 30-Nov-2020
• ICS: 29.020 - Electrical engineering in general
• ICS: 91.120.40 - Lightning protection
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 81X - Lightning protection
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 81 - IEC_TC_81
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 01-Dec-2017
• Completion Date: 01-Dec-2017
• Ref Project: SIST EN 62561-4:2018 - Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4: Requirements for conductor fasteners

Relations

• Replaces: EN 62561-4:2011 - Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4: Requirements for conductor fasteners
• Effective Date: 05-Dec-2017
• Replaced By: EN IEC 62561-4:2023 - Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4: Requirements for conductor fasteners
• Effective Date: 28-Sep-2021

Standards Content (Sample)

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Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4: Requirements for conductor
fasteners
Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 4: Anforderungen an Leitungshalter
Composants de système de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) - Partie 4: Exigences
pour les fixations de conducteur
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62561-4:2017
ICS:
91.120.40 =DãþLWDSUHGVWUHOR Lightning protection
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 62561-4
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
December 2017
ICS 29.020; 91.120.40 Supersedes EN 62561-4:2011
English Version
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4:
Requirements for conductor fasteners
(IEC 62561-4:2017)
Composants de systèmes de protection contre la foudre Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 4: Anforderungen
(CSPF) - Partie 4: Exigences pour les fixations de an Leitungshalter
conducteur (IEC 62561-4:2017)
(IEC 62561-4:2017)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2017-09-01. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2017 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN 62561-4:2017 E
European foreword
The text of document 81/564/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 62561-4, prepared by IEC/TC 81, "Lightning
protection", was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
– latest date by which this document has to be (dop) 2018-06-01
implemented at national level
by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting (dow) 2020-12-01
with this document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes EN 62561-4:2011.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62561-4:2017 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated:
IEC 62305 (series) NOTE Harmonized as EN 62305 (series).

Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant

EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60068-2-52 1996 Environmental testing -- Part 2-52: Tests - EN 60068-2-52 1996
Test Kb: Salt mist, cyclic (sodium chloride
solution)
IEC 60068-2-75 2014 Environmental testing - Part 2-75: Tests - EN 60068-2-75 2014
Test Eh: Hammer tests
IEC 62305-3 -  Protection against lightning -- Part 3: EN 62305-3 -
Physical damage to structures and life
hazard
IEC 62561-1 2017  EN 62561-1 2017
ISO 4892-2 2013 Plastics - Methods of exposure to EN ISO 4892-2 2013
laboratory light sources - Part 2: Xenon-arc
lamps
ISO 4892-3 -  EN ISO 4892-3 2016
ISO 4892-4 -  Plastics - Methods of exposure to - -
laboratory light sources - Part 4: Open-
flame carbon-arc lamps
ISO 6957 1988 Copper alloys; ammonia test for stress - -
corrosion resistance
ISO 6988 1985 Metallic and other non-organic coatings - EN ISO 6988 1994
Sulfur dioxide test with general
condensation of moisture
IEC 62561-4 ®
Edition 2.0 2017-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) –

Part 4: Requirements for conductor fasteners

Composants de système de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) –

Partie 4: Exigences pour les fixations de conducteur

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 29.020; 91.120.40 ISBN 978-2-8322-4633-7

– 2 – IEC 62561-4:2017 © IEC 2017
CONTENTS
CONTENTS . 2
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Classification . 8
4.1 According to material of conductor fastener . 8
4.2 According to fixing arrangement of the conductor within the conductor
fastener . 8
4.3 According to conductor clamping arrangement . 8
5 Requirements . 8
5.1 General . 8
5.2 Environmental requirements . 8
5.2.1 Corrosion resistance . 8
5.2.2 Ultraviolet (UV) light resistance . 9
5.3 Mechanical strength . 9
5.3.1 Perpendicular and axial loads . 9
5.3.2 Impact tests . 9
5.4 Installation instructions . 9
5.5 Marking . 9
6 Tests . 9
6.1 General test conditions . 9
6.2 Preparation of the specimen . 10
6.3 Environmental influence test . 10
6.3.1 General . 10
6.3.2 Metallic . 11
6.3.3 Non-metallic . 11
6.3.4 Composite . 12
6.4 Resistance to mechanical effects . 12
6.4.1 Lateral load test . 12
6.4.2 Axial load test . 13
6.4.3 Impact test . 14
6.5 Installation instructions . 15
6.6 Marking test . 16
6.6.1 General conditions for tests . 16
6.6.2 Acceptance criteria . 16
6.7 Construction . 16
7 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) . 16
8 Structure and content of the test report . 16
8.1 General . 16
8.2 Report identification . 17
8.3 Specimen description . 17
8.4 Conductor . 17
8.5 Standards and references . 17
8.6 Test procedure . 17

IEC 62561-4:2017 © IEC 2017 – 3 –
8.7 Testing equipment description . 18
8.8 Measuring instruments description . 18
8.9 Results and parameters recorded . 18
8.10 Statement of pass/fail . 18
Annex A (normative) Environmental test for metallic and composite conductor
fasteners . 19
A.1 General . 19
A.2 Salt mist treatment . 19
A.3 Humid sulphurous atmosphere treatment . 19
A.4 Ammonia atmosphere treatment. 19
Annex B (normative) Environmental test for non-metallic and composite conductor
fasteners – Resistance to ultraviolet light . 20
B.1 General . 20
B.2 The test . 20
B.3 First alternative test to B.2 . 20
B.4 Second alternative test to B.2 . 20
Annex C (normative) Flow chart of tests for conductor fastener . 21
Bibliography .
...

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 62561-4:2022
01-julij-2022
Elementi za zaščito pred strelo (LPSC) - 4. del: Zahteve za pritrdilne elemente
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4: Requirements for conductor
fasteners
Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 4: Anforderungen an Leitungshalter
Composants de système de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) - Partie 4: Exigences
pour les fixations de conducteur
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62561-4:2017
ICS:
91.120.40 Zaščita pred strelo Lightning protection
SIST EN 62561-4:2022 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

SIST EN 62561-4:2022
SIST EN 62561-4:2022
EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 62561-4
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
December 2017
ICS 29.020; 91.120.40 Supersedes EN 62561-4:2011
English Version
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 4:
Requirements for conductor fasteners
(IEC 62561-4:2017)
Composants de systèmes de protection contre la foudre Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 4: Anforderungen
(CSPF) - Partie 4: Exigences pour les fixations de an Leitungshalter
conducteur (IEC 62561-4:2017)
(IEC 62561-4:2017)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2017-09-01. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2017 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN 62561-4:2017 E
SIST EN 62561-4:2022
European foreword
The text of document 81/564/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 62561-4, prepared by IEC/TC 81, "Lightning
protection", was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
– latest date by which this document has to be (dop) 2018-06-01
implemented at national level
by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting (dow) 2020-12-01
with this document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes EN 62561-4:2011.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62561-4:2017 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated:
IEC 62305 (series) NOTE Harmonized as EN 62305 (series).

SIST EN 62561-4:2022
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant

EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60068-2-52 1996 Environmental testing -- Part 2-52: Tests - EN 60068-2-52 1996
Test Kb: Salt mist, cyclic (sodium chloride
solution)
IEC 60068-2-75 2014 Environmental testing - Part 2-75: Tests - EN 60068-2-75 2014
Test Eh: Hammer tests
IEC 62305-3 -  Protection against lightning -- Part 3: EN 62305-3 -
Physical damage to structures and life
hazard
IEC 62561-1 2017  EN 62561-1 2017
ISO 4892-2 2013 Plastics - Methods of exposure to EN ISO 4892-2 2013
laboratory light sources - Part 2: Xenon-arc
lamps
ISO 4892-3 -  EN ISO 4892-3 2016
ISO 4892-4 -  Plastics - Methods of exposure to - -
laboratory light sources - Part 4: Open-
flame carbon-arc lamps
ISO 6957 1988 Copper alloys; ammonia test for stress - -
corrosion resistance
ISO 6988 1985 Metallic and other non-organic coatings - EN ISO 6988 1994
Sulfur dioxide test with general
condensation of moisture
SIST EN 62561-4:2022
SIST EN 62561-4:2022
IEC 62561-4 ®
Edition 2.0 2017-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) –

Part 4: Requirements for conductor fasteners

Composants de système de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) –

Partie 4: Exigences pour les fixations de conducteur

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 29.020; 91.120.40 ISBN 978-2-8322-4633-7

SIST EN 62561-4:2022
– 2 – IEC 62561-4:2017 © IEC 2017
CONTENTS
CONTENTS . 2
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Classification . 8
4.1 According to material of conductor fastener . 8
4.2 According to fixing arrangement of the conductor within the conductor
fastener . 8
4.3 According to conductor clamping arrangement . 8
5 Requirements . 8
5.1 General . 8
5.2 Environmental requirements . 8
5.2.1 Corrosion resistance . 8
5.2.2 Ultraviolet (UV) light resistance . 9
5.3 Mechanical strength . 9
5.3.1 Perpendicular and axial loads . 9
5.3.2 Impact tests . 9
5.4 Installation instructions . 9
5.5 Marking . 9
6 Tests . 9
6.1 General test conditions . 9
6.2 Preparation of the specimen . 10
6.3 Environmental influence test . 10
6.3.1 General . 10
6.3.2 Metallic . 11
6.3.3 Non-metallic . 11
6.3.4 Composite . 12
6.4 Resistance to mechanical effects . 12
6.4.1 Lateral load test . 12
6.4.2 Axial load test . 13
6.4.3 Impact test . 14
6.5 Installation instructions . 15
6.6 Marking test . 16
6.6.1 General conditions for tests . 16
6.6.2 Acceptance criteria . 16
6.7 Construction . 16
7 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) . 16
8 Structure and content of the test report . 16
8.1 General . 16
8.2 Report identification . 17
8.3 Specimen description . 17
8.4 Conductor . 17
8.5 Standards and references . 17
8.6 Test procedure . 17

SIST EN 62561-4:2022
IEC 62561-4:2017 © IEC 2017 – 3 –
8.7 Testing equipment description . 18
8.8 Measuring instruments description . 18
8.9 Results and parameters recorded . 18
8.10 Statement of pass/fail . 18
Annex A (normative) Environmental test for metallic and composite conductor
fasteners . 19
A.1 General . 19
A.2 Salt mist treatment . 19
A.3 Humid sulphurous atmosphere treatment . 19
A.4 Ammonia atmosphere treatment. 19
Annex B (normative) Environmental test for non-metallic and composite conductor
fasteners – Resistance to ultraviolet light . 20
B.1 General . 20
B.2 The test . 20
B.3 First alternative test to B.2 . 20
B.4 Second alternative test to B.2 . 20
Annex C (normative) Flow chart of tests for conductor fastener . 21
Bibliography . 22

Figure 1 – Basic arrangement of specim
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