EN 61230:2008

Live working - Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting

IEC 61230:2008 is applicable to portable equipment, with or without matching connection points, for temporary earthing or earthing and short-circuiting of electrically isolated or de-energized a.c. and d.c. installations, distribution and transmission networks, whether they are overhead or underground or of low or high voltage. This standard covers equipment comprising an earthing or a short-circuiting or an earthing and short-circuiting device and insulating component. The performance of equipment, devices and components covered by this standard is based on electro-dynamic and electro-thermal effects acting during short-circuit. The withstand capability of the devices and equipment is expressed by their rated values of current, time and peak factor. No rated voltage is given, but the geometrical dimensions of the equipment are also linked to the voltage of the installation. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 1993. It constitutes a technical revision. The major changes are: - extension of the scope to cover the use of equipment on d.c. installations; - extension of the use of aluminium to all conductive parts of the device; - possibility of using this standard for separate components of the equipment; - general revision of requirements and tests; - revision of existing annexes; - introduction of a new informative Annex D giving guidelines for determination of the equivalent r.m.s. value of a short-circuit current and of a new normative Annex F on classification of defects.

Arbeiten unter Spannung - Ortsveränderliche Geräte zum Erden oder Erden und Kurzschließen

Travaux sous tension - Equipements portables de mise à la terre ou de mise à la terre et en court-circuit

La CEI 61230:2008 est applicable aux équipements portables avec ou sans points de connexion assortis, pour mise temporaire à la terre ou mise à la terre et en court-circuit des installations électriques à courant alternatif ou à courant continu, isolées ou hors tension, des réseaux de distribution et de transport, qu'ils soient aériens ou souterrains et de tension basse ou haute. La présente norme couvre l'équipement comprenant un dispositif de mise à la terre ou de court-circuit, ou de mise à la terre et en court-circuit, et un composant isolant. La performance des équipements, dispositifs et composants couverts par la présente norme, est basée sur les effets électrodynamiques et électrothermiques mis en jeu durant le court-circuit. La capacité de tenue des équipements et dispositifs est exprimée par leurs valeurs assignées de courant, de temps et de facteur de crête. Aucune tension assignée n'est donnée mais les dimensions géométriques de l'équipement sont liées à la tension de l'installation. La seconde édition annule et remplace la première édition publiée en 1993. Cette édition constitue une révision technique. Les principaux changements sont: - l'extension du domaine d'application pour couvrir l'usage des équipements sur des installations à courant continu; - l'extension de l'usage de l'aluminium à toutes les parties conductrices du dispositif; - la possibilité d'utiliser la présente norme pour des composants séparés de ces équipements; - la révision générale des exigences et des essais; - la révision des annexes existantes; - l'introduction d'une nouvelle Annexe D informative proposant un guide pour déterminer la valeur efficace équivalente d'un courant de court-circuit et d'une nouvelle Annexe F normative traitant de la classification des défauts.

Delo pod napetostjo - Prenosna oprema za ozemljitev ali ozemljitev in kratkostičenje (IEC 61230:2008)

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 05-Nov-2008
• Withdrawal Date: 30-Sep-2011
• ICS: 13.260 - Protection against electric shock. Live working
• ICS: 29.240.20 - Power transmission and distribution lines
• ICS: 29.260.99 - Other electrical equipment for working in special conditions
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 78 - Equipment and tools for live working
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 78 - IEC_TC_78
• Parallel Committee: IEC/TC 78 - IEC_TC_78
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 06-Nov-2008
• Completion Date: 06-Nov-2008
• 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
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61230:2009 - Live working - Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting

Relations

• Replaces: EN 61230:1995 - Live working - Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 61230:1995/A11:1999 - Live working - Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

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Live working - Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting
Arbeiten unter Spannung - Ortsveränderliche Geräte zum Erden oder Erden und
Kurzschließen
Travaux sous tension - Equipements portables de mise à la terre ou de mise à la terre et
en court-circuit
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61230:2008
ICS:
13.260 9DUVWYRSUHGHOHNWULþQLP Protection against electric
XGDURP'HORSRGQDSHWRVWMR shock. Live working
29.260.01 (OHNWULþQDRSUHPD]DGHORY Electrical equipment for
SRVHEQLKUD]PHUDKQD working in special conditions
VSORãQR in general
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EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 61230
NORME EUROPÉENNE
November 2008
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 13.260; 29.240.20; 29.260.99 Supersedes EN 61230:1995 + A11:1999

English version
Live working -
Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting
(IEC 61230:2008)
Travaux sous tension -  Arbeiten unter Spannung -
Equipements portables de mise à la terre Ortsveränderliche Geräte zum Erden
ou de mise à la terre et en court-circuit oder Erden und Kurzschließen
(CEI 61230:2008) (IEC 61230:2008)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2008-10-01. 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.

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 Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the
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 Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

Central Secretariat: rue de Stassart 35, B - 1050 Brussels

© 2008 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 61230:2008 E
Foreword
The text of document 78/741/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61230, prepared by IEC TC 78, Live working,
was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved by CENELEC as EN 61230 on
2008-10-01.
This European Standard supersedes EN 61230:1995 + A11:1999.
The major changes are:
– extension of the scope to cover the use of equipment on d.c. installations;
– extension of the use of aluminium to all conductive parts of the device;
– extension of the application to silicone rubber cables made by the revision of TC 20 document
EN 61138;
– possibility of using this standard for separate components of the equipment;
– general revision of requirements and tests;
– deletion of the marking requirement of the double triangle to clarify that the products covered by the
standard are not appropriate for performing live working;
– clarification and modification to the procedure for short-circuit test:
• change of the number of devices submitted to test,
• change of the pre-conditioning time to 48 h,
• clarification of the test procedure for separate components;
– application of conformity assessment for products having completed the production phase, according
to EN 61318:2008;
– revision of existing annexes;
– change of normative Annexes A and C into informative Annexes C and B with a reviewed wording;
– deletion of Annex B, not applicable according to EN 61318:2008;
– deletion of Annex D, its requirements and tests being now included in the body of the standard;
– introduction of a new informative Annex A on railway application;
– introduction of a new informative Annex D giving guidelines for determination of the equivalent r.m.s.
value of a short-circuit current;
– revision of the list of type tests, which now appears in normative Annex E;
– introduction of a new normative Annex F on classification of defects.
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) 2009-07-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2011-10-01
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61230:2008 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:
IEC 60071-1 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60071-1:2006 (not modified).
IEC 60071-2 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60071-2:1997 (not modified).
IEC 60228 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60228:2005 (not modified).
IEC 60743 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60743:2001 + A1:2008 (not modified).
+ A1
IEC 60832 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60832:1996 (modified).
IEC 60855 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60855:1996 (modified).
IEC 60865-1 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60865-1:1993 (not modified).
IEC 60909-0 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60909-0:2001 (not modified).
IEC 61235 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61235:1995 (modified).
IEC 61472 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61472:2004 (not modified).
ISO 9000 NOTE  Harmonized as EN ISO 9000:2005 (not modified).
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application 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  When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 60060-1 1989 High-voltage test techniques - HD 588.1 S1 1991
Part 1: General definitions and test
requirements
IEC 60068-2-11 1981 Environmental testing - EN 60068-2-11 1999
Part 2: Tests - Test Ka: Salt mist

IEC 60068-2-42 2003 Environmental testing - EN 60068-2-42 2003
Part 2-42: Tests - Test Kc: Sulphur dioxide
test for contacts and connections

IEC 60811-1-4 1985 Common test methods for insulating and
+ corr. May 1986 sheathing materials of electric cables -
+ A1 1993 Part 1: Methods for general application - EN 60811-1-4 1995
A2 2001 Section 4: Tests at low temperature A2 2001

IEC 60811-2-1 1998 Insulating and sheathing materials of electric EN 60811-2-1 1998
A1 2001 and optical cables - Common test methods - A1 2001
Part 2-1: Methods specific to elastomeric
compounds - Ozone resistance, hot set and
mineral oil immersion tests
IEC 60811-3-1 1985 Common test methods for insulating and EN 60811-3-1 1995
A1 1994 sheathing materials of electric cables - A1 1996
A2 2001 Part 3: Methods specific to PVC compounds - A2 2001
Section 1: Pressure test at high temperature -
Tests for resistance to cracking

IEC 61138 (mod) 2007 Cables for portable earthing and EN 61138 2007
short-circuiting equipment
IEC 61318 2007 Live working - Conformity assessment EN 61318 2008
applicable to tools, devices and equipment

IEC 61477 2001 Live working - Minimum requirements for the EN 61477 2002
A1 2002 utilization of tools, devices and equipment A1 2002
A2 (mod) 2004 A2 2005
IEC 61230
Edition 2.0 2008-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Live working – Portable equipment for earthing or earthing and short-circuiting

Travaux sous tension – Equipements portables de mise à la terre ou de mise à la
terre et en court-circuit
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
XB
CODE PRIX
ICS 13.260; 29.240.20; 29.260.99 ISBN 2-8318-9875-7
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.5
INTRODUCTION.7
1 Scope.8
2 Normative references .12
3 Terms and definitions .13
4 Requirements .17
4.1 General .17
4.2 Electrical rating .18
4.3 Cables for earthing and short-circuiting .18
4.3.1 Selection of cables .18
4.3.2 Earthing cables used on solidly earthed (neutral) systems.19
4.3.3 Earthing cables used on non-solidly earthed (neutral) systems.19
4.4 Short-circuiting bars .19
4.5 Connections of cables to rigid parts within devices .20
4.6 Clamps.20
4.7 Earthing and short-circuiting device.20
4.8 Basic safety requirements for the insulating element(s) of the insulating
component .21
4.9 Marking .21
4.9.1 General .21
4.9.2 Marking on earthing and short-circuiting device .21
4.9.3 Marking on clamp .22
4.9.4 Marking on cable .22
4.9.5 Marking on other components.22
4.10 Instructions for use.22
5 Tests .23
5.1 General .23
5.2 Verification and checking .23
5.3 Tests for the selection of cables .24
5.3.1 Cables complying with IEC 61138.24
5.3.2 Cables not complying with IEC 61138.24
5.4 Fatigue and humidity penetration tests on cable with end fittings.24
5.4.1 Fatigue test .24
5.4.2 Humidity penetration test.26
5.5 Tension test on cable with end fittings.26
5.6 Test on clamps, permanent connection points and connections .27
5.6.1 Tests for tightening types .27
5.6.2 Tests for non-tightening types .27
5.7 Short-circuit current test .27
5.7.1 General .27
5.7.2 Preparation of test pieces.29
5.7.3 Test set-ups and test arrangements.33
5.7.4 Test current, Joule-integral and duration .34
5.7.5 Documentation and evaluation of the test .35
5.7.6 Alternative means to short-circuit current test for conformity
assessment during production phase.36

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5.8 Durability of marking .36
6 Conformity assessment .
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