IEC 62552-1:2015/AMD1:2020

Amendment 1 - Household refrigerating appliances - Characteristics and test methods - Part 1: General requirements

Amendement 1 - Appareils de réfrigération à usage ménager - Caractéristiques et méthodes d'essai - Partie 1: Exigences générales

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 29-Nov-2020
• ICS: 97.030 - Domestic electrical appliances in general
• Technical Committee: SC 59M - Performance of electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances
• Drafting Committee: MT 2 - TC 59/SC 59M/MT 2
• Current Stage: PPUB - Publication issued
• Start Date: 11-Dec-2020
• Completion Date: 30-Nov-2020

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• Amends: IEC 62552-1:2015 - Household refrigerating appliances - Characteristics and test methods - Part 1: General requirements
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

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IEC 62552-1 ®
Edition 1.0 2020-11
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
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A MENDMENT 1
AM ENDEMENT 1
Household refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods –
Part 1: General requirements
Appareils de réfrigération à usage ménager – Caractéristiques et méthodes
d'essai –
Partie 1: Exigences générales
IEC 62552-1:2015-02/AMD1:2020-11(en-fr)

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Edition 1.0 2020-11
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INTERNATIONALE
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A MENDMENT 1
AM ENDEMENT 1
Household refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods –

Part 1: General requirements
Appareils de réfrigération à usage ménager – Caractéristiques et méthodes

d'essai –
Partie 1: Exigences générales
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ICS 97.030 ISBN 978-2-8322-9066-8

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© IEC 2020
FOREWORD
This amendment has been prepared by subcommittee 59M: Performance of electrical household
and similar cooling and freezing appliances, of IEC technical committee 59: Performance of
household and similar electrical appliances.
The text of this amendment is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
59M/126/FDIS 59M/132/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 website 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.
IMPORTANT – The 'colour inside' logo on the cover page of this publication indicates
that it contains colours which are considered to be useful for the correct understanding
of its contents. Users should therefore print this document using a colour printer.

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1 Scope
Replace the first paragraph with the following new content:
This part of IEC 62552 specifies the essential characteristics of household and similar
refrigerating appliances cooled by internal natural convection or forced air circulation, and
establishes test methods for checking these characteristics.
NOTE Annex F lists the items that can be included in a test report.

© IEC 2020
2 Normative references
Replace the reference IEC 62552-2:2015 as follows:
IEC 62552-2:2015, Household refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods –
Part 2: Performance requirements
IEC 62552-2:2015/AMD1:2020
Replace the reference IEC 62552-3:2015 as follows:
IEC 62552-3:2015, Household refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods –
Part 3: Energy consumption and volume
IEC 62552-3:2015/AMD1:2020
3.3.1
compartment
Add a note to entry:
Note 3 to entry: A non-enclosed space in the refrigerating appliance having one or more external doors, which are
only used to access this space, is considered to be a compartment.
3.3.4
variable temperature compartment
Add the following note to entry:
Note 2 to entry: See B.2.5.2 for requirements regarding energy consumption declarations for products with
variable temperature compartments.
3.3.5
freezer compartment
Replace the content of Note 1 to entry by the following:
Note 1 to entry: Two-star sections and/or sub-compartments are permitted within the compartment.
3.3.16.3
three-star
Add the following new note to entry:
Note 1 to entry: Two-star sections and/or sub-compartments are permitted within the compartment.
3.3.16.4
four-star
Replace the definition with:
compartment where the storage temperature meets three-star conditions and where the
minimum freezing capacity meets the requirements of Clause 8 of
IEC 62552-2:2015/AMD1:2020
Replace the content of Note 1 to entry by the following:
Note 1 to entry: Two-star sections and/or sub-compartments are permitted within the compartment.
Add the following new term and definition:
3.4.10
h-line
vertical line through a compartment used to measure the effective height and to define the
height positions of sensors in a compartment

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3.5.5.1
automatic defrost
Add the following Note 1 to entry:
Note 1 to entry: Automatic defrost can be achieved by active heating of the evaporator (typically using a resistive
heater) or by other means, such as stopping the cooling function of the evaporator without active heating, reverse
cycle defrost or hot gas bypass defrosting.
3.5.16
freezing time
Replace the definition with:
time to freeze in a freezer or freezer compartment a set amount of load as defined in Clause 8
of IEC 62552-2:2015/AMD1:2020
3.5.17
freezing capacity
Replace the definition with:
rate of heat extraction by the refrigeration system from a load in a freezer or freezer
compartment as defined in Clause 8 of IEC 62552-2:2015/AMD1:2020
3.5.22
processing load efficiency test
Replace the term by:
load processing efficiency test
3.5.25
processing load recovery period
Delete this term and definition.
Figure 1 – Illustration of selected definitions
Replace Figure 1 and its title with the following new figure and title:

© IEC 2020
NOTE Components of refrigerator operation depicted in this figure are illustrative only and are intended to be
representative of common products. Not all products exhibit all the features, and some products can operate in a
different manner. Written definitions have precedence over depictions in this figure.
Figure 1 – Illustration of selected typical refrigerator operations
A.3.2.3 Temperature values
Replace item a) with:
a) For assessing the storage temperatures:
+10 °C and +32 °C for class SN refrigerating appliances;
+16 °C and +32 °C for class N refrigerating appliances;
+16 °C and +38 °C for class ST refrigerating appliances;
+16 °C and +43 °C for class T refrigerating appliances.
For products rated for multiple climate classes, tests only need to be performed at the extreme
ambient temperatures of all the relevant rated classes. Testing details are specified in
Clause 6 of IEC 62552-2:2015 and IEC 62552-2:2015/AMD1:2020.
EXAMPLE For refrigerating appliances rated from SN to T, tests are performed at +10 °C and at +43 °C
In addition, verification tests may be carried out at any ambient temperature between the
minimum and maximum temperature defined by the climate class in order to confirm compliance
with the storage temperature requirements at any ambient temperature.
Replace item c) with:
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c) For assessing the temperature rise time, freezing capacity, cooling capacity and
automatic ice-making capacity of all refrigerating appliances, as applicable and specified
in Clauses 7 to 9 and Annex C of IEC 62552-2:2015 and IEC 62552-2:2015/AMD1:2020:
+25 °C for all classifications of refrigerating appliances;
Replace item d) with:
d) For assessing the pull-down performance test as specified in Annex A of
IEC 62552-2:2015:
at the maximum ambient temperature in accordance with the climate class specified;
B.2.5.2 Variable temperature compartments
Replace the content with the following new content:
Where the compartment is a variable temperature compartment type (that spans the
operating range of several compartment types), it shall be classified.
a) For the storage test (IEC 62552-2): each variable temperature compartment shall be
capable of maintaining specified internal temperatures for each claimed compartment type
at ambient temperatures across the rated range.
b) For the cooling capacity test (IEC 62552-2): if the variable temperature compartment
can be used as a fresh food compartment, it shall be operated as a fresh food
compartment type where this test is performed.
c) For the freezing capacity and temperature rise time tests (IEC 62552-2): if the variable
temperature compartment can be used as a three-star or four-star compartment, it shall
be operated as a three-star or four-star compartment type where this test is performed.
d) For the energy consumption, water vapour condensation and ice-making capacity tests
(IEC 62552-2 and IEC 62552-3), as applicable: the variable temperature compartment
shall operate as the compartment type which has the highest energy consumption for the
energy test.
Additional requirements regarding each compartment type are specified in IEC 62552-3:2015,
Table 1 during the energy consumption test. In the energy consumption test, where a
refrigerating appliance has variable temperature compartments that can operate as more
than one compartment type, additional compartment classifications may be tested, if required,
in addition to the primary classification specified above.
C.1 Dimensions and tolerances
Add a note after the second paragraph:
NOTE In IEC 62552:2007, 1 kg packs were defined (200 mm × 100 mm × 50 mm) that can be reused under this
document by combining 2 packages vertically to form stacks with a footprint of 100 mm × 100 mm.
C.2 Composition
Replace the second paragraph of item c) with
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