EN 60309-1:1999/A2:2012

Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes - Part 1: General requirements

Applies to plugs and socket-outlets, cable couplers and appliance couplers, with a rated operating voltage not exceeding 690 V d.c. or a.c. and 500 Hz a.c. and a rated current not exceeding 250 A, primarily intended for industrial use, either indoors or outdoors. The list of preferred ratings is not intended to exclude other ratings, requirements for which are under consideration. This European Standard applies to Series I products only. Series II products are not allowed and not suitable for use in Europe: reference and requirements for Series II products are reported in this standard for information only and shall be ignored. This European Standard applies to products intended to be used with cables with metric sizes (mm2) only. Reference and requirements to AWG and MCM cables are present in the relevant IEC publication and they are reported in this standard for information only. See Annex ZB for a list of references to Series II and/or AWG/MCM cable which are excluded from this standard.

Stecker, Steckdosen und Kupplungen für industrielle Anwendungen - Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen

Prises de courant pour usages industriels - Partie 1: Règles générales

Vtiči, vtičnice in spojke za industrijske namene - 1. del: Splošne zahteve (IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012)

Standard se uporablja za vtiče in vtičnice, spojke kablov in aparatov z nazivno obratovalno napetostjo, ki ne presega 690 V enosmerne ali izmenične napetosti in frekvence 500 Hz, ter nazivnim tokom, ki ne presega 250 A, namenjene predvsem za industrijsko uporabo v notranjih prostorih ali na prostem. Seznam prednostnih nazivnih vrednosti ni namenjen izključitvi drugih nazivnih vrednosti, pri čemer so zahteve zanje v obravnavi. Ta evropski standard se uporablja samo za izdelke skupine I. Izdelki skupine II niso dovoljeni in niso primerni za uporabo v Evropi: sklicevanje in zahteve za izdelke skupine II so v tem standardu navedeni zgolj informativno in jih je treba prezreti. Ta evropski standard se uporablja samo za izdelke, ki so namenjeni uporabi s kabli z metričnimi velikostmi (mm2). Sklicevanje in zahteve za kable AWG in MCM so navedeni v ustrezni publikaciji IEC, pri čemer so v tem standardu navedeni zgolj informativno. Dodatek ZB zajema seznam sklicevanj na skupino II in/ali kable AWG/MCM, ki so izključeni iz tega standarda.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 09-Aug-2012
• ICS: 29.120.30 - Plugs, socket-outlets, couplers
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 23H - Plugs, Socket-outlets and Couplers for industrial and similar applications, and for Electric Vehicles
• Drafting Committee: CLC/TC 23H/WG 1 - Low voltage plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purpose, industrial cable reels, and conversion adapters for industrial use
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 10-Aug-2012
• Completion Date: 10-Aug-2012
• 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: 2008/57/EC - Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community (Recast)
• 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 60309-1:2000/A2:2012 - Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes - Part 1: General requirements (IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012)

Relations

• Replaced By: EN IEC 60309-1:2022 - Plugs, fixed or portable socket-outlets and appliance inlets for industrial purposes - Part 1: General requirements
• Effective Date: 13-Nov-2017
• Amends: EN 60309-1:1999 - Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes - Part 1: General requirements
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
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Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes - Part 1: General requirements
(IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012)
Stecker, Steckdosen und Kupplungen für industrielle Anwendungen - Teil 1: Allgemeine
Anforderungen (IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012)
Prises de courant pour usages industriels - Partie 1: Règles générales (CEI 60309-
1:1999/A2:2012)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 60309-1:1999/A2:2012
ICS:
29.120.30 9WLþLYWLþQLFHVSRMNH Plugs, socket-outlets,
couplers
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 60309-1/A2
NORME EUROPÉENNE
August 2012
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 29.120.30
English version
Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes -
Part 1: General requirements
(IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012)
Prises de courant  Stecker, Steckdosen und Kupplungen
pour usages industriels - für industrielle Anwendungen -
Partie 1: Règles générales Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen
(CEI 60309-1:1999/A2:2012) (IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012)

This amendment A2 modifies the European Standard EN 60309-1:1999; it was approved by CENELEC on
2012-07-13. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which
stipulate the conditions for giving this amendment 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 amendment 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, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B - 1000 Brussels

© 2012 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 60309-1:1999/A2:2012 E

Foreword
The text of document 23H/282/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 60309-1:1999/A2, prepared by SC 23H,
"Industrial plugs and socket-outlets", of IEC TC 23, "Electrical accessories" was submitted to the
IEC CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN 60309-1:1999/A2:2012.

The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2013-04-13
• latest date by which the document has
to be implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2015-07-13

standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60309-1:1999/A2:2012 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.

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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. 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

Replace EN 60695-2-1:1996 by:
IEC 60695-2-11 - Fire hazard testing - EN 60695-2-11 -
Part 2-11: Glowing/hot-wire based test
methods - Glow-wire flammability test method
for end-products
Addition to Annex ZA of EN 60309-1:1999:

IEC 60309-4 - Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for EN 60309-4 -
industrial purposes -
Part 4: Switched socket-outlets and
connectors with or without interlock

IEC 60695-10-2 - Fire hazard testing - EN 60695-10-2 -
Part 10-2: Abnormal heat - Ball pressure test

IEC 60309-1 ®
Edition 4.0 2012-06
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
AMENDMENT 2
AMENDEMENT 2
Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes –

Part 1: General requirements
Prises de courant pour usages industriels –

Partie 1: Règles générales
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
CODE PRIX M
ICS 29.120.30 ISBN 978-2-83220-118-3

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FOREWORD
This amendment has been prepared by subcommittee 23H: Industrial plugs and socket-outlets,
of IEC technical committee 23: Electrical accessories.
The text of this amendment is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
23H/282/FDIS 23H/285/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this amendment can be found in the report
on voting indicated in the above table.
The committee has decided that the contents of this amendment and the base publication will
remain unchanged until the stability date indicated on the IEC web site under
"http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to the specific publication. At this date, the
publication will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
_____________
1 Scope
Replace the first paragraph by:
This standard applies to plugs and socket-outlets, cable couplers and appliance couplers, with
a rated operating voltage not exceeding 1 000 V d.c. or a.c. and 500 Hz a.c., and a rated
current not exceeding 800 A, primarily intended for industrial use, either indoors or outdoors.
These accessories are intended to be installed by instructed persons (IEC 60050-195:1998,
Amendment 1:2001, 195-04-02) or skilled persons (IEC 60050-195:1998, Amendment 1:2001,
195-04-01) only.
Replace the fourth paragraph – introduced by Amendment 1 – by:
This standard applies to accessories with screwless type terminals or insulation piercing
terminals, with a rated current up to and including 32 A for series I and 30 A for series II.
3 Normative references
Replace IEC 60695-2-1:1994 by:
IEC 60695-2-11, Fire hazard testing –Part 2-11: Glowing/hot-wire based test methods – Glow-
wire flammability test method for end-products
Add the following references:
60309-1 Amend.2 © IEC:2012 – 3 –
IEC 60309-4, Plugs, socket-outlets and couplers for industrial purposes – Part 4: Switched
socket-outlets and connectors with or without interlock
IEC 60695-10-2, Fire hazard testing – Part 10-2: Abnormal heat – Ball pressure test
4.1 General requirements
Add a new fourth paragraph:
Accessories shall have a minimum degree of protection IP23 according to IEC 60529.
5.1
Add the following new values
750 V
1 000 V
5.2
Add the following new values in Table 1:
315 300
400 350
630 500
800 600
Add after Table 1 the following Note 2:
NOTE 2 This table does not provide correspondence between series I and series II values. It is only a list of
preferred ratings
6.1.2
Replace the text introduced by Amendment 1 by the following:
"according to degrees of protection in accordance with IEC 60529 (with a minimum IP23, see
4.1)"
Add the following new subclause:
6.1.8 according to accessibility to live parts:
– accessories providing for IPXXB
– accessories providing for IP2X
– accessories providing for IPXXD
– accessories providing for IP4X
7.1
Replace, in the third dashed item, “alternative” by “alternating”.
Replace the seventh dashed item by “degree of protection”.
7.2
Replace the second paragraph after the list of symbols by:

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Marking of degree(s) of protection on plugs and appliance inlets is only valid when those are
in engagement with a complementary accessory or with an attached cap, if any.
7.3
Replace in the third paragraph:
“the symbol for degree of protection, if required”
by:
"the degree of protection".
7.6
Replace the existing third sentence by:
After the humidity treatment of Clause 18, the marking is rubbed by hand for 15 s with a
piece of cloth soaked in water and again for 15 s with a piece of cloth soaked in petroleum
spirit.
It is recommended that the petroleum spirit used consist of a solvent hexane with an aromatic
content of maximum 0,1 volume percentage, a Kauri-Butanol value of approximately 29, an
initial boiling point of approximately 65 °C, a dry point of approximately 69 °C and a density of
approximately 0,68 g/ cm .
Table 2
Replace the value “690” by “1 000”.
7.9
Replace the last paragraph of this subclause – introduced by Amendment 1 – by:
This marking shall appear on the accessory. It may also appear on the accompanying
instruction sheet, the smallest package unit or the manufacturer's documentation, if any.
7.10
Replace the existing text of this subclause – introduced by Amendment 1 – by:
For terminals, the connection and disconnection procedures shall, if necessary, be indicated
on the product, on the smallest package unit or on the manufacturer’s documentation.
Table 3 – Size for connectable conductors
Add the following new values at the end of table, previously modified by Amendment 1:

315 300 95 to 150 000 to 300 120 to 185 250 to 350 25 4
350 120 to 185 250 to 350 150 to 240 300 to 500 35 3
400  150 to 240 300 to 500 185 to 300 350 to 600 35 3
Exceeding
500 185 to 300 350 to 600 240 to 400 500 to 800 35 2
630 600 240 to 400 500 to 800 300 to 500 600 to 1 000 50 1
800  300 to 500 600 to 1 000 400 to 630 800 to 1 250 50 0

60309-1 Amend.2 © IEC:2012 – 5 –
11.1.1
Add after the second paragraph of this subclause introduced by Amendment 1:
Compliance is checked by inspection.
Table 4-2
Add the following new values at the end of the table – modified by Amendment 1:
240,0 28,6 464 20,0
300,0 28,6 464 22,7
400,0 31,8 495 50,0
500,0 38,1 572 50,0
630,0 44,5 660 70,3
Table 4-3
Add the following new values at the end of table – modified by Amendment 1:
240 578
300 578
400 690
500 778
630 965
12 Interlocks
Replace the existing clause by:
12.1 Accessories with a rated current above 250 A or accessories not intended to make and
break under load shall be provided with an interlock according to IEC 60309-4 or with the
provision for an interlock to be used according to IEC 60309-4.
Requirements for interlocks are given in IEC 60309-4.
Compliance is checked by inspection and by the tests of IEC 60309-4.
12.2 Replace the existing text of this subclause by "Void".
12.3 Replace the existing text of this subclause by "Void".
15.8
Replace the existing first paragraph by:
Socket-outlets having a rated operating voltage exceeding 50 V a.c. or 120 V d.c. shall be
provided with an earthing contact.
16.9
Replace the existing first paragraph by:

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Plugs and connectors having a rated operating voltage exceeding 50 V a.c. or 120 V d.c. shall
be provided with an earthing contact.
17.3
Replace the existing first paragraph by:
Appliance inlets having a rated operating voltage exceeding 50 V a.c. or 120 V d.c. shall be
provided with an earthing contact.
17.4
Replace the existing first paragraph by:
Appliance inlets shall not have specific means to allow the wiring of more than one connector
(see also 16.10).
18.2
Delete the last paragraph.
Add after the first paragraph – introduced by Amendment 1 – the following:
When the first characteristic numeral is 3 or 4, and for degrees of protection up to and
including IPX4, where a drain hole is provided, the protection is satisfactory if the full
diameter of the probe does not pass through any opening other than through drain holes, in
which case the probe shall not touch live parts within the enclosure.
20 Breaking capacity
Replace the seventeenth paragraph by:
The test is made using the connections shown in Figure 5. For two-pole accessories the
selector switch C, connecting the metal support and the accessible metal parts to one of the
poles of the supply, is operated after half the number of strokes; for three-pole and three-pole
plus neutral accessories, the selector switch C is operated after one-third of the number of
strokes, and again after two-thirds of the number of strokes, so as to connect each pole in
turn.
Table 6 – Breaking capacity
Add the following new values at the end of Table 6:
315 300
400 from 251 to 800 NA NA NA
630 600
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