EN 61058-1-1:2016

Switches for appliances - Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switches

IEC 61058-1-1:2016 applies to mechanical switching devices and shall be used in conjunction with the requirements of IEC 61058-1.

Geräteschalter - Teil 1-1: Anforderungen an mechanische Schalter

Interrupteurs pour appareils - Partie 1-1: Exigences relatives aux interrupteurs mécaniques

L'IEC 61058-1-1:2016 s'applique aux interrupteurs mécaniques et doit être utilisée conjointement avec les exigences de l'IEC 61058-1.

Stikala za aparate - 1-1. del: Zahteve za mehanske stikalne konstrukcije (IEC 61058-1-1:2016)

Ta točka 1. dela se uporablja.
Za točko 1 se doda naslednje.
Ta del standarda IEC 61058 se uporablja za mehanske stikalne naprave in se mora uporabljati skupaj z zahtevami standarda IEC 61058-1.
OPOMBA: Dodatne zahteve za določena stikala najdete v 2. delu standarda IEC 61058.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 22-Sep-2016
• ICS: 29.120.40 - Switches
• Technical Committee: CLC/SR 23J - Switches for appliances
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 23J - IEC_SC_23J
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 23-Sep-2016
• Completion Date: 23-Sep-2016
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61058-1-1:2017 - Switches for appliances - Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switch constructions (IEC 61058-1-1:2016)

Relations

• Corrected By: EN 61058-1-1:2016/AC:2019-02 - Switches for appliances - Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switches
• Effective Date: 12-Feb-2019

Overview

EN 61058-1-1:2016 (identical to IEC 61058-1-1:2016) is a CENELEC/CLC harmonized standard that defines specific requirements for mechanical switches used in appliances. This Part 1‑1 document supplements and modifies the general requirements of IEC 61058-1 so that designers, manufacturers and test laboratories have a dedicated set of rules for mechanical switch constructions. It covers test methods, ratings, markings and safety-related constructional and performance criteria.

Key topics and requirements

The standard addresses practical and technical aspects that affect safety, durability and compliance for appliance switches, including:

• Scope and normative references - clarifies that Part 1‑1 is to be used in conjunction with IEC 61058-1.
• Terms, classification and rating - device classification, declared electrical ratings and how ratings affect testing.
• Marking and documentation - required information to be supplied with switches.
• Protection against electric shock and earthing - constructional requirements to reduce shock risk.
• Terminals, connections and screws - requirements for current-carrying parts and secure terminations.
• Construction and mechanism - mechanical design, actuation and endurance characteristics.
• Ingress protection and humidity - tests for protection against solid objects, water and humid conditions (IP considerations).
• Insulation resistance and dielectric strength - electrical insulation testing and criteria.
• Heating and electrical endurance - thermal testing, electrical cycling and test loads (see tables in the standard).
• Mechanical strength, fire hazard and corrosion resistance - robustness, flame behaviour and resistance to rusting.
• Abnormal operation and fault conditions - behaviour under faults and misuse.
• Components and EMC - requirements for subcomponents and electromagnetic compatibility considerations.
• Test specimen requirements - guidance on minimum specimen counts and test sequencing (Table 101 and related tables).

Applications and who uses this standard

EN 61058-1-1:2016 is used by:

• Switch manufacturers designing mechanical switches for appliances (white goods, small appliances, HVAC controls).
• Appliance OEMs selecting and specifying compliant switch components.
• Test laboratories and certification bodies performing endurance, insulation, ingress and safety testing.
• Design and compliance engineers ensuring product designs meet European/CENELEC and IEC requirements. The standard helps ensure switches meet safety, lifetime and performance expectations for domestic and light‑commercial appliance applications.

Related standards

• IEC 61058-1 (2016) - main part to be used in conjunction with Part 1‑1.
• IEC 61058 series - other parts covering specific switch types and additional requirements.
• IEC 60664-3 - referenced for clearance/creepage and coatings test methods (as indicated in the annexes).

Keywords: EN 61058-1-1:2016, IEC 61058-1-1, switches for appliances, mechanical switches, electrical endurance, ingress protection, insulation testing, appliance switch standards.

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-februar-2017
Stikala za aparate - 1-1. del: Zahteve za mehanske stikalne konstrukcije (IEC 61058
-1-1:2016)
Switches for appliances - Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switch constructions
(IEC 61058-1-1:2016)
Geräteschalter - Teil 1-1: Anforderungen an mechanische Schalter (IEC 61058-1-1:2016)
Interrupteurs pour appareils - Partie 1-1: Exigences relatives aux interrupteurs
mécaniques (IEC 61058-1-1:2016)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61058-1-1:2016
ICS:
29.120.40 Stikala Switches
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61058-1-1

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
September 2016
ICS 29.120.40
English Version
Switches for appliances -
Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switches
(IEC 61058-1-1:2016)
Interrupteurs pour appareils -  Geräteschalter -
Partie 1-1: Exigences relatives aux interrupteurs mécaniques Teil 1-1: Anforderungen an mechanische Schalter
(IEC 61058-1-1:2016) (IEC 61058-1-1:2016)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2016-06-29. 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, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
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CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels
© 2016 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN 61058-1-1:2016 E
European foreword
The text of document 23J/399/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61058-1-1, prepared by SC 23J "Switches
for appliances", of IEC/TC 23 "Electrical accessories" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel
vote and approved by CENELEC as EN 61058-1-1:2016.
The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2017-03-29
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at
national level by publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2019-06-29
• latest date by which the national 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 61058-1-1:2016 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
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 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.

Annex ZA of Part 1 is applicable.
IEC 61058-1-1 ®
Edition 1.0 2016-05
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Switches for appliances –
Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switches

Interrupteurs pour appareils –

Partie 1-1: Exigences relatives aux interrupteurs mécaniques

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 29.120.40 ISBN 978-2-8322-3396-2

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references. 5
3 Terms and definitions . 5
4 General requirements . 5
5 General information on tests . 5
6 Rating . 7
7 Classification . 7
8 Marking and documentation . 7
9 Protection against electric shock . 7
10 Provision for earthing . 7
11 Terminals and terminations . 7
12 Construction . 7
13 Mechanism . 7
14 Protection against ingress of solid foreign objects, ingress of water and humid
conditions . 7
15 Insulation resistance and dielectric strength . 7
16 Heating . 7
17 Endurance . 7
17.1 General requirements . 8
17.2 Electrical endurance tests . 8
17.3 Thermal conditions . 10
17.4 Actuating conditions . 10
17.5 Type of test condition (TC) . 12
17.6 Evaluation of compliance . 13
17.6.1 Functional compliance (TE1) . 13
17.6.2 Thermal compliance (TE2) . 13
17.6.3 Insulating compliance (TE3) . 13
18 Mechanical strength . 13
19 Screws, current-carrying parts and connections . 14
20 Clearances, creepage distances, solid insulation and coatings of rigid printed
board assemblies . 14
21 Fire hazard . 14
22 Resistance to rusting . 14
23 Abnormal operation and fault conditions for switches . 14
24 Components for switches . 14
25 EMC requirements . 14

Table 101 – Test specimens . 6
Table 102 – Test loads for electrical endurance tests for a.c. circuits . 9
Table 103 – Test loads for electrical endurance tests for d.c. circuits . 10
Table 104 – Switch operating conditions . 11

IEC 61058-1-1:2016  IEC 2016 – 3 –
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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SWITCHES FOR APPLIANCES –
Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switches

FOREWORD
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International Standard IEC 61058-1-1 has been prepared by subcommittee 23J: Switches for
appliances, of IEC technical committee 23: Electrical accessories.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
23J/399/FDIS 23J/403/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all parts in the IEC 61058 series, published under the general title Switches for
appliances, can be found on the IEC website.

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This part of IEC 61058 is to be used in conjunction with IEC 61058-1(2016).
This Part 1-1 supplements or modifies the corresponding clauses in IEC 61058-1, so as to
convert that publication into the IEC standard: Requirements for mechanical switches.
When a particular subclause of Part 1 is not mentioned in this Part 1-1, that subclause applies
as far as reasonable. Where this standard states “addition”, “modification” or “replacement”,
the relevant text of Part 1 is to be adapted accordingly.
In this standard:
1) the following print types are used:
– requirements proper: in roman type;
– test specifications: in italic type;
– notes/explanatory matters: in small roman type.
2) subclauses, notes, figures and tables which are additional to those in Part 1 are numbered
starting from 101. Annexes which are additional to those in Part 1 are lettered AA, BB, etc.
The committee has decided that the contents of this 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.
IEC 61058-1-1:2016  IEC 2016 – 5 –
SWITCHES FOR APPLIANCES –
Part 1-1: Requirements for mechanical switches

1 Scope
This clause of part 1 is applicable.
Add the following at the end of Clause 1.
This part of IEC 61058 applies to mechanical switching devices and shall be used in
conjunction with the requirements of IEC 61058-1.
NOTE Additional requirements for particular switches may be found in the relevant part 2 of IEC 61058.
2 Normative references
This clause of part 1 is applicable.
3 Terms and definitions
This clause of part 1 is applicable.
4 General requirements
This clause of part 1 is applicable.
5 General information on tests
This clause of part 1 is applicable with the following addition.
Add the following at the end of 5.3.
Table 101 provides information on:
– The minimum number of specimens needed for each test.
– The minimum number of total specimens, when applicable tests are added, needed for
each evaluation.
– Additional specimens that may be required as a result of additional electrical rating,
unique construction or damage/breakage during testing.

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Table 101 – Test specimens
Clause Description Minimum number of Notes
a)
specimens for each test
b)
5 General information on tests – i ii
6 Rating
7 Classification
8 Marking and documentation
9 Protection against electric shock
c)
10 Provision for earthing
11 Terminals
12 Construction
13 Mechanism
d)
14.1 Protection against ingress of solid foreign objects 1
d)
14.2 Protection against ingress of water 1
14.3 to 15 Protection against humid conditions e), m)
Insulation resistance and dielectric strength
f), m)
16 Heating – 3 3
f), m)
17 Endurance – 3 3
c)
18 Mechanical strength 1
c)
19 Screws, current-carrying parts and connections 1
g), h)
20 Clearance, creepage distances 1
i), c)
21 Fire hazard 2
c)
22 Resistance to rusting 1
23 Abnormal operation and fault conditions for
l)
switches
j)
24 Components for switches 3
k)
25 EMC requirements –
a)
Additional specimens may be required depending on the construction and declaration of the switch.
b)
Each electrical rating submitted to the testing of Clauses 16 and 17 requires an additional 3 specimens (such
as rating i =3 specimens, rating ii = additional 3 specimens).
c)
The specimen may be used for more than 1 test, if cumulative stress as a result of sequential testing is
avoided. When a specimen is damaged a new specimen shall be used for the next test.
d)
In general 1 specimen for ingress of solid foreign objects (dust), and 1 specimen for ingress of water.
Specific IP ratings (such as IP 5x, IP6x and protection against water) require a special enclosure to be
provided with the switch specimen in order to complete the testing.
e)
The same test specimens are used to complete the testing of 14.3 and 15. The tests are completed in
immediate sequence.
f)
Heating according to Clause 16 and endurance according to Clause 17 is
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