EN 61048:2006

Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge lamp circuits - General and safety requirements

This International Standard states the requirements for both self-healing and non-self-healing continuously rated a.c. capacitors of up to and including 2,5 kVAr, and not less than 0,1 µF, having a rated voltage not exceeding 1 000 V, which are intended for use in discharge lamp circuits operating at 50 Hz or 60 Hz and at altitudes up to 3 000 m.

Geräte für Lampen - Kondensatoren für Leuchtstofflampen- und andere Entladungslampenkreise - Allgemeine Anforderungen und Sicherheitsanforderungen

Appareils auxiliaires pour lampes - Condensateurs destinés à être utilisés dans les circuits de lampes tubulaires à fluorescence et autres lampes à décharge - Prescriptions générales et de sécurité

La présente Norme internationale énonce les exigences pour les condensateurs autorégénérateurs et non autorégénérateurs pour usage permanent en courant alternatif, d'une puissance inférieure ou égale à 2,5 kVAr, de capacité supérieure à 0,1 µF et dont la tension assignée n'excède pas 1 000 V, qui sont destinés à être utilisés dans les circuits de lampes à décharge fonctionnant à 50 Hz ou 60 Hz à des altitudes jusqu'à 3 000 m.

Pribor za sijalke – Kondenzatorji za uporabo v tokokrogih s cevastimi fluorescenčnimi in drugimi sijalkami – Splošne in varnostne zahteve (IEC 61048:2006)

Ta mednarodni standard navaja zahteve tako za samoozdravljive kot nesamoozdravljive kondenzatorje za neprekinjeni nazivni tok zmogljivosti največ 2,5 kVAr in najmanj 0,1 µF z nazivno napetostjo največ 1000 V, ki so namenjeni za uporabo v tokokrogih s sijalkami, ki delujejo pri frekvenci 50/60 Hz in nadmorski višini največ 3000 m. OPOMBA: Te sijalke in povezane dušilke so obravnavane v ustreznih standardih IEC 60081, IEC 60901, IEC 60188, IEC 60192, IEC 60662 in IEC 61167 ter IEC 61347-2-8 in IEC 61347-2-9. Zajema kondenzatorje, namenjene za povezavo v sklopu, povezavo zaporedno s krogotokom sijalke ali delujočo kombinacijo obeh možnosti. Zajema samo impregnirane ali neimpregnirane kondenzatorje z dielektrikom iz papirja, plastične folije ali kombinacije obojega, bodisi z metalizirano folijo bodisi z elektrodami kovinske folije. Ta standard ne zajema kondenzatorjev za preprečevanje radijskih motenj, zahteve za katere so podane v standardu IEC 60384-14. Preskusi, obravnavani v tem standardu, so tipski preskusi. Zahteve za preskušanje posameznih kondenzatorjev med proizvodnjo niso vključene.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 02-Jul-2006
• Withdrawal Date: 30-Apr-2009
• ICS: 29.140.30 - Fluorescent lamps. Discharge lamps
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 34 - 'Lamps and related equipment
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 34C - IEC_SC_34C
• Parallel Committee: IEC/SC 34C - IEC_SC_34C
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 03-Jul-2006
• Completion Date: 03-Jul-2006
• 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 61048:2006 - Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge lamp circuits - General and safety requirements

Relations

• Replaces: EN 61048:1993/A2:1999 - Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge lamp circuits - General and safety requirements
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 61048:1993 - Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge lamp circuits - General and safety requirements
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Replaces: EN 61048:1993/A1:1996 - Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge lamp circuits - General and safety requirements
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023
• Amended By: EN 61048:2006/A1:2016 - Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge lamp circuits - General and safety requirements
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI SIST EN 61048:2006
STANDARD
oct 2006
Pribor za sijalke – Kondenzatorji za uporabo v tokokrogih s cevastimi
fluorescenčnimi in drugimi sijalkami – Splošne in varnostne zahteve (IEC
61048:2006)
Auxiliaries for lamps - Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and other discharge
lamp circuits - General and safety requirements (IEC 61048:2006)
ICS 29.140.30; 31.060.01 Referenčna številka
©  Standard je založil in izdal Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje ali kopiranje celote ali delov tega dokumenta ni dovoljeno

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 61048
NORME EUROPÉENNE
July 2006
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 29.140.30 Supersedes EN 61048:1993 + A1:1996 + A2:1999

English version
Auxiliaries for lamps -
Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent
and other discharge lamp circuits -
General and safety requirements
(IEC 61048:2006)
Appareils auxiliaires pour lampes - Geräte für Lampen -
Condensateurs destinés à être utilisés Kondensatoren für Leuchtstofflampen-
dans les circuits de lampes tubulaires und andere Entladungslampenkreise -
à fluorescence et autres lampes Allgemeine Anforderungen und
à décharge -
Sicherheitsanforderungen
Prescriptions générales et de sécurité (IEC 61048:2006)
(CEI 61048:2006)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2006-05-01. 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
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Ref. No. EN 61048:2006 E
Foreword
The text of document 34C/720/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61048, prepared by SC 34C, Auxiliaries for
lamps, of IEC TC 34, Lamps and related equipment, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote
and was approved by CENELEC as EN 61048 on 2006-05-01.
This European Standard replaces EN 61048:1993 + A1:1996 +A2:1999.
In this EN 61048:2006 conformity of production has been changed from "informative" to "normative", thus
providing a higher degree of safety for capacitors.
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) 2007-02-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2009-05-01
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61048:2006 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 60068-2-78 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60068-2-78:2001 (not modified).
IEC 60081 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60081:1998 (not modified).
IEC 60901 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60901:1996 (not modified).
IEC 60188 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60188:2001 (not modified).
IEC 60192 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60192:2001 (not modified).
IEC 60384-14 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60384-14:2005 (not modified).
IEC 60662 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60662:1993 (not modified).
IEC 61167 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61167:1994 (not modified).
IEC 61347-2-8 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61347-2-8:2001 (not modified).
IEC 61347-2-9 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61347-2-9:2001 (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 60269 Series Low-voltage fuses EN 60269 Series

IEC 60529 1989 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures EN 60529 1991
(IP Code) + corr. May 1993
1) 2)
IEC 60598-1 (mod) - Luminaires EN 60598-1 2004
Part 1: General requirements and tests

1) 2)
IEC 60695-2-11 - Fire hazard testing EN 60695-2-11 2001
Part 2-11: Glowing/hot-wire based test
methods - Glow-wire flammability test method
for end-products
1) 2)
IEC 60695-11-5 - Fire hazard testing EN 60695-11-5 2005
Part 11-5: Test flames - Needle-flame test
method - Apparatus, confirmatory test
arrangement and guidance
IEC 61049 (mod) 1991 Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent and EN 61049 1993
+ corr. January 1992 other discharge lamp circuits - Performance
requirements
ISO 4046-4 2002 Paper, board, pulps and related terms - - -
Vocabulary
Part 4: Paper and board grades and
converted products
1)
Undated reference.
2)
Valid edition at date of issue.

NORME CEI
INTERNATIONALE
IEC
INTERNATIONAL
Deuxième édition
STANDARD
Second edition
2006-03
Appareils auxiliaires pour lampes –
Condensateurs destinés à être utilisés
dans les circuits de lampes tubulaires à
fluorescence et autres lampes à décharge –
Prescriptions générales et de sécurité

Auxiliaries for lamps –
Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent
and other discharge lamp circuits –
General and safety requirements

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61048  IEC:2006 – 3 –
CONTENTS
FOREWORD.7
INTRODUCTION.11

1 Scope.13
2 Normative references .13
3 Terms and definitions .15
4 General requirements .17
5 General notes on tests .17
6 Marking .19
6.1 Required marking .19
6.2 Additional information.19
6.3 Durability and legibility of marking .21
7 Terminations .21
8 Creepage distances and clearances .21
9 Voltage rating.23
10 Fuses .25
11 Discharge resistors.25
12 Testing sequence .25
13 Sealing and heating test .27
13.1 Sealing and heating test for type A capacitors .27
13.2 Sealing and heating test for type B capacitors .27
14 High-voltage test .27
14.1 High-voltage test between terminals .27
14.2 High-voltage test between terminals and case.29
15 Resistance to adverse operating conditions.29
15.1 Humidity test with voltage applied .31
15.2 Current (discharge) test.31
16 Resistance to heat, fire and tracking.33
17 Self-healing test .35
18 Destruction test .37
18.1 Test A .37
18.2 Test B .43
18.3 Non-self-healing capacitors .49

Annex A (normative) Test voltage .61
Annex B (normative) Temperature adjustment of test enclosure.63
Annex C (normative) Test for conformity of manufacture.65
Annex D (informative) Guide to calculating equipment settings for tests in 15.2 and
18.1.3 .67

Bibliography.71

61048  IEC:2006 – 5 –
Figure 1 – AC conditioning circuit .51
Figure 2 – DC conditioning circuit .51
Figure 3 – Self-healing breakdown test equipment .53
Figure 4 – Voltage and current waveform for the tests in 15.2 and 18.1.3 .55
Figure 5 – Typical test circuit for the tests in 15.2 and 18.1.3.57
Figure 6 – Summary of test procedure .59

Table 1 – Minimum creepage distances and clearances.23
Table 2 – Voltage and test duration for endurance test, first test sequence.37
Table 3 – Voltage and test duration for endurance test, second test sequence .39

61048  IEC:2006 – 7 –
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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AUXILIARIES FOR LAMPS –
CAPACITORS FOR USE IN TUBULAR FLUORESCENT AND
OTHER DISCHARGE LAMP CIRCUITS –
GENERAL AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

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