IEC 60335-2-29:2002/AMD1:2004

Amendment 1 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-29: Particular requirements for battery chargers

The contents of the corrigendum of November 2004 have been included in this copy.

Amendement 1 - Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues - Sécurité - Partie 2-29: Règles particulières pour les chargeurs de batterie

Le contenu du corrigendum de novembre 2004 a été pris en considération dans cet exemplaire.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 26-Jan-2004
• ICS: 29.180 - Transformers. Reactors
• ICS: 97.180 - Miscellaneous domestic and commercial equipment
• Technical Committee: TC 61 - Safety of household and similar electrical appliances
• Current Stage: DELPUB - Deleted Publication
• Start Date: 09-Jun-2016
• Completion Date: 14-Feb-2026

Relations

• Amends: IEC 60335-2-29:2002 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-29: Particular requirements for battery chargers
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023
• Corrected By: IEC 60335-2-29:2002/AMD1:2004/COR1:2004 - Corrigendum 1 - Amendment 1 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-29: Particular requirements for battery chargers
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023
• Revised: IEC 60335-2-29:2016 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-29: Particular requirements for battery chargers
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

Overview

IEC 60335-2-29:2002/AMD1:2004 is an important amendment to the international safety standard covering household and similar electrical appliances, specifically focusing on battery chargers. Published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), this amendment introduces refined safety requirements, marking, and testing protocols for battery chargers, including those intended for use by children aged at least 8 years old without supervision. The scope also integrates the corrigendum issued in November 2004.

By updating the standard, IEC 60335-2-29:2002/AMD1:2004 helps manufacturers, regulatory authorities, and users ensure that battery chargers comply with safety and performance benchmarks relevant to modern usage scenarios, protecting end-users and minimizing risks.

Key Topics

• Safety Requirements: Enhanced guidelines for protection against access to live parts, abnormal situations, and electromagnetic effects that could impact the safe operation of battery chargers.
• Children’s Use: The amendment introduces Annex AA, outlining specific safety, marking, and design requirements for battery chargers intended for use by children aged 8 years and older.
• Mechanical Strength and Durability: Specific mechanical strength tests (including drop and impact testing) ensure devices can withstand everyday handling without compromising safety.
• Marking and Instructions:
  • Mandatory markings (e.g., "For indoor use only", smiling face symbol with "8+") to identify chargers suitable for children.
  • Clear instructions for safe usage, maintenance checks, and warnings against recharging non-rechargeable batteries.
• Temperature Limits: Strict temperature rise limits for accessible parts during normal and abnormal operation, especially those parts that children may touch.
• Degree of Protection: Requirements for protection against solid objects (minimum IP3X), and for outdoor-suitable chargers, protection against water ingress (minimum IPX7).
• Prevention of Reverse Charging: Design measures to prevent reverse charging even if batteries are incorrectly inserted.
• Electrical Construction: Chargers must only have one rated voltage or voltage range and must avoid user-adjustable output voltages.

Applications

This amendment is valuable for:

• Battery Charger Manufacturers: Guiding the design and testing of safe chargers for home and similar environments, especially those intended for unsupervised children’s use.
• Certification Bodies: Providing a basis for product approval and compliance verification to support market access.
• Retailers and Importers: Assisting in the selection of products that meet internationally recognized safety standards.
• Consumers and Parents: Ensuring that chargers purchased for household use-particularly those used or accessible by children-meet stringent safety regulations, reducing the risk of accidents or misuse.

Related Standards

• IEC 60335-1: General requirements for the safety of household electrical appliances.
• IEC 61558-2-7: Pertains to safety standards for transformers used with toys and referenced as a requirement for toy chargers.
• IEC 60417: Graphical symbols for use on equipment, relevant for mandatory safety markings.
• IEC 61032: Specifies test probes for verifying protection against access to hazardous parts.
• IEC 60068-2-75 and IEC 60068-2-32: Relate to mechanical strength testing via impact and drop tests, ensuring durability.

Summary

IEC 60335-2-29:2002/AMD1:2004 strengthens safety and reliability standards for battery chargers in households and similar environments. By addressing practical safety concerns-particularly for products accessible to children-it supports the development and supply of safer electrical appliances worldwide. Manufacturers and stakeholders are encouraged to consult and apply this amendment to ensure their products align with updated global safety expectations.

Standards Content (Sample)

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60335-2-29
AMENDMENT 1
2004-01
Amendment 1
Household and similar electrical appliances –
Safety –
Part 2-29:
Particular requirements for battery chargers

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FOREWORD
This amendment has been prepared by IEC technical committee 61: Safety of household and

similar electrical appliances.

The text of this amendment is based on the following documents:

FDIS Report on voting
61/2536/FDIS 61/2580/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 the base publication and its amendments will
remain unchanged until 2006. At this date, the publication will be
• reconfirmed;
• withdrawn
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
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CONTENTS
Add the title of Annex AA as follows:
Annex AA (normative) Battery chargers for use by children
FOREWORD
Add the following to the list of differences existing in some countries:
– 6.1: The voltage limits for appliances suitable for outdoor use are different (USA).
– Annex AA, 11.8: Higher temperature rises are allowed (USA).
– Annex AA, Clause 17: Higher temperature rises are allowed (USA).
– Annex AA, 19.13: Higher temperature rises are allowed (USA).
INTRODUCTION
Replace the second sentence of the second paragraph by the following:
It also covers abnormal situations that can be expected in practice and takes into account the
way in which electromagnetic phenomena can affect the safe operation of appliances.
1 Scope
Delete the sixth dashed item from Note 102.
Add the following note:
NOTE 103 Requirements for battery chargers for use by children at least 8 years old without supervision are
given in Annex AA.
60335-2-29 Amend 1  IEC:2004(E) – 3 –

2 Normative references
Add the following new reference:

IEC 61558-2-7:1997, Safety of power transformers, power supply units and similar – Part 2-7:

Particular requirements for transformers for toys

21 Mechanical strength
Number the modification and addition as 21.1.

Add the following new annex:
Annex AA
(normative)
Battery chargers for use by children
Battery chargers intended to be used by children at least eight years old without supervision
shall comply with this standard but as modified by this annex. The battery chargers have a
d.c. output at safety extra-low voltage not exceeding 30 V and a rated output not exceeding
50 VA.
NOTE 1 Battery chargers covered by this annex are not considered to be toys.
NOTE 2 Additional subclauses and notes in the annex are numbered starting with 201.
5 General conditions for the tests
5.201 When batteries are used, the generally available rechargeable batteries giving the
most unfavourable conditions are used.
6 Classification
6.1 Modification:
Battery chargers suitable for outdoor use shall be class III. Other battery chargers shall be
class II or class III.
6.2 Addition:
Battery chargers suitable for outdoor use shall be at least IPX7.
6.201 Enclosures shall be classified at least IP3X with regard to protection against ingress
of solid foreign objects.
Compliance is checked by inspection.
7 Marking and instructions
7.1 Addition:
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1)
Battery chargers for indoor use only shall be marked with symbol 5957 of IEC 60417 or with

the substance of the following:

For indoor use only
Battery chargers shall be marked with the IP number according to the degree of protection

against ingress of solid foreign objects.

Battery chargers shall be marked with the smiling face symbol together with 8+.

7.6 Addition:
2)
[future symbol 5957 of IEC
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IEC 60335-2-29
Edition 4.0 2004-01
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
AMENDMENT 1
AMENDEMENT 1
Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety –
Part 2-29: Particular requirements for battery chargers

Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues – Sécurité –
Partie 2-29: Règles particulières pour les chargeurs de batterie

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STANDARD
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INTERNATIONALE
AMENDMENT 1
AMENDEMENT 1
Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety –
Part 2-29: Particular requirements for battery chargers

Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues – Sécurité –
Partie 2-29: Règles particulières pour les chargeurs de batterie

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AVANT-PROPOS
Cet amendement a été établi par le comité d’études 61 de la CEI: Sécurité des appareils
électrodomestiques et analogues.
La présente version bilingue, publiée en 2004-09, correspond à la version anglaise.
Le texte anglais de cet amendement est issu des documents 61/2536/FDIS et 61/2580/RVD.
Le rapport de vote 61/2580/RVD donne toute information sur le vote ayant abouti à
l'approbation de cet amendement.
La version française de cet amendement n’a pas été soumise au vote.
Le comité a décidé que le contenu de cet amendement et de la publication de base ne sera
pas modifié avant la date de maintenance indiquée sur le site web de la CEI sous
"http://webstore.iec.ch" dans les données relatives à la publication recherchée. A cette date,
la publication sera
• reconduite,
• supprimée,
• remplacée par une édition révisée, ou
• amendée.
Le contenu du corrigendum de novembre 2004 a été pris en considération dans cet
exemplaire.
___________
SOMMAIRE
Ajouter le titre de la nouvelle Annexe AA
Annexe AA (normative) Chargeurs de batterie destinés à être utilisés par les enfants

AVANT-PROPOS
Ajouter ce qui suit à la liste des différences existant dans certains pays:
– 6.1: Les limites de tension pour les appareils adaptés à une utilisation extérieure sont différentes (USA).
– Annexe AA, 11.8: Des échauffements supérieurs sont autorisés (USA).
– Annexe AA, Article 17: Des échauffements supérieurs sont autorisés (USA).
– Annexe AA, 19.13: Des échauffements supérieurs sont autorisés (USA).

INTRODUCTION
Remplacer la deuxième phrase du deuxième alinéa par ce qui suit:
Elle couvre également les situations anormales auxquelles on peut s'attendre dans la pratique
et prend en considération les phénomènes électromagnétiques qui peuvent affecter le
fonctionnement en toute sécurité des appareils.

60335-2-29 Amend 1 © IEC:2004 – 3 –
FOREWORD
This amendment has been prepared by IEC technical committee 61: Safety of household and
similar electrical appliances.
This bilingual version, published in 2004-09, corresponds to the English version.
The text of this amendment is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
61/2536/FDIS 61/2580/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 maintenance result 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.
The contents of the corrigendum of November 2004 have been included in this copy.
_____________
CONTENTS
Add the title of Annex AA as follows:
Annex AA (normative) Battery chargers for use by children
FOREWORD
Add the following to the list of differences existing in some countries:
– 6.1: The voltage limits for appliances suitable for outdoor use are different (USA).
– Annex AA, 11.8: Higher temperature rises are allowed (USA).
– Annex AA, Clause 17: Higher temperature rises are allowed (USA).
– Annex AA, 19.13: Higher temperature rises are allowed (USA).
INTRODUCTION
Replace the second sentence of the second paragraph by the following:
It also covers abnormal situations that can be expected in practice and takes into account the
way in which electromagnetic phenomena can affect the safe operation of appliances.

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1 Domaine d’application
Supprimer le sixième tiret de la Note 102.
Ajouter la note suivante:
NOTE 103 Les exigences applicables aux chargeurs de batterie destinés à être utilisés par des enfants âgés de
huit ans au moins, sans surveillance, sont fournies dans l’Annexe AA.
2 Références normatives
Ajouter la nouvelle référence suivante:
CEI 61558-2-7:1997, Sécurité des transformateurs, blocs d’alimentation et analogues –
Partie 2: Règles particulières pour les transformateurs pour jouets
21 Résistance mécanique
Remplacer «Modification» par «21.1 Modification».

60335-2-29 Amend 1  IEC:2004 – 5 –
1 Scope
Delete the sixth dashed item from Note 102.
Add the following note:
NOTE 103 Requirements for battery chargers for use by children at least 8 years old without supervision are
given in Annex AA.
2 Normative references
Add the following new reference:
IEC 61558-2-7:1997, Safety of power transformers, power supply units and similar – Part 2-7:
Particular requirements for transformers for toys
21 Mechanical strength
Number the modification and addition as 21.1.

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Ajouter la nouvelle annexe suivante:
Annexe AA
(normative)
Chargeurs de batterie destinés à être utilisés par les enfants

Les chargeurs de batterie destinés à être utilisés par des enfants âgés de huit ans au moins,
sans surveillance, doivent être conformes à cette norme, en tenant compte des modifications
fournies par cette annexe. Les chargeurs de batterie délivrent une très basse tension de
sécurité ne dépassant pas 30 V en courant continu et ont une puissance assignée ne
dépassant pas 50 VA.
NOTE 1 Les chargeurs de batterie couverts par cette annexe ne sont pas considérés comme des jouets.
NOTE 2 Dans cette annexe, les paragraphes et notes complémentaires sont numérotés à partir de 201.
5 Conditions générales d’essais
5.201 Lorsque des batteries sont utilisées, on utilise des batteries rechargeables
généralement disponibles et donnant les conditions les plus défavorables.
6 Classification
6.1 Modification:
Les chargeurs de batterie adaptés pour une utilisation extérieure doivent être de classe III.
Les autres chargeurs de batterie doivent être de la classe II ou de la classe III.
6.2 Addition:
Les chargeurs de batterie adaptés pour une utilisation extérieure doivent être au moins IPX7.
6.201 Les enveloppes doivent être classées au moins IP3X en ce qui conc
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