House­hold equip­ment cer­ti­fi­ca­tion

RF EMC DEVEL­OP­MENT offers house­hold equip­ment cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, house­hold equip­ment Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­for­mity and house­hold equip­ment CE mark­ing.

This requires at least one house­hold equip­ment sam­ple to carry out test­ing and house­hold equip­ment doc­u­men­ta­tion (tech­ni­cal file).

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion or Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­for­mity is manda­tory for house­hold equip­ment to enter Euro­pean Union mar­ket and to be on marked. Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­for­mity pro­ce­dures are dif­fer­ent in the aspect– who is car­ry­ing out the pro­ce­dure. Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is car­ried out by Euro­pean Union Noti­fied body (NB). Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­for­mity is car­ried out by man­u­fac­turer or manufacturer’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Euro­pean Union. It is obvi­ous that, Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­for­mity is less expen­sive (usu­ally by ~30% cheaper), than cer­ti­fi­ca­tion car­ried out by third party. Com­mon part of both pro­ce­dures is test­ing; it must be done in both cases.

RF EMC DEVEL­OP­MENT have reviewed house­hold equip­ment cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and Dec­la­ra­tion of Con­for­mity pro­ce­dures in seven easy steps. These pro­ce­dures are also applied to other elec­tri­cal and elec­tronic equip­ment, chang­ing direc­tives and stan­dards.


House­hold equip­ment cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dure:

1. It is nec­es­sary to receive at least one house­hold equip­ment sam­ple (To cer­tifi­cate house­hold equip­ment, it is nec­es­sary to carry out test­ing in ISO17025 accred­ited lab­o­ra­tory. Basi­cally, house­hold equip­ment two Euro­pean Union direc­tives are applied:

  • Low Volt­age Direc­tive (LVD) 2014/​35/​EC,
  • Elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­i­bil­ity direc­tive (EMC) 2014/​30/​EC.
There­fore, house­hold equip­ment is tested in two lab­o­ra­to­ries.

2. EMC test­ing (house­hold equip­ment is tested in elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­i­bil­ity lab­o­ra­tory (EMC) accord­ing to fol­low­ing standards:

  • EN 550141 Elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­i­bil­ity — Require­ments for house­hold appli­ances, elec­tric tools and sim­i­lar appa­ra­tus — Part 1: Emission,
  • EN 550142 Elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­i­bil­ity — Require­ments for house­hold appli­ances, elec­tric tools and sim­i­lar appa­ra­tus — Part 2: Immunity,
  • EN 6100032 Elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­i­bil­ity (EMC) — Part 32: Lim­its — Lim­its for har­monic cur­rent emis­sions (equip­ment input cur­rent ≤16 A per phase)
  • EN 6100033 Elec­tro­mag­netic com­pat­i­bil­ity (EMC) — Part 33: Lim­its –Lim­i­ta­tion of volt­age changes, volt­age fluc­tu­a­tions and flicker in pub­lic low-​voltage sup­ply sys­tems, for equip­ment with rated cur­rent ≤ 16 A per phase and not sub­ject to con­di­tional con­nec­tion (IEC 6100033:2008))

Other stan­dards may be used for pro­fes­sional equip­ment.


3. LVD test­ing (House­hold equip­ment is tested in LVD lab­o­ra­tory. Applied stan­dards depends on prod­uct fam­ily)
Audio, TV
EN 60065 Audio, video and sim­i­lar elec­tronic appa­ra­tus – Safety require­ments.

Elec­tric toys
EN 62115 Elec­tric toys – Safety.

Elec­tric irons
EN 6033523 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal equip­ment – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for elec­tric irons.

Scrub­bing machines
EN 60335210 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances –Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for floor treat­ment and wet scrub­bing machines.

Vac­uum clean­ers
EN 6033522 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety –Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for vac­uum clean­ers and water-​suction clean­ing appli­ances.

Tum­ble dry­ers
EN 60335211 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for tum­ble dry­ers.

Wash­ing machines
EN 6033527 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for wash­ing machines.

Fridge
EN 60335224 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances — Safety — Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for motor-​compressors.

Dish­wash­er
EN 6033525 House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for dish­wash­ers.

Ket­tle, teapot
EN 60335215
House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appa­ra­tus – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments– Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for appli­ances for heat­ing liq­uids.

Grills, toast­ers, other cook­ing appli­ances
EN 6033529
House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for grills, toast­ers and sim­i­lar portable cook­ing appli­ances.

Skin or hair care
EN 60335223
House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for appli­ances for skin or hair care.

Shavers, hair clip­pers
EN 6033528
House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for shavers, hair clip­pers and sim­i­lar appli­ances.

Clothe dry­ers and towel rails
EN 60334243
House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for clothes dry­ers and towel rails.

Room heaters
EN 60335230
House­hold and sim­i­lar appli­ances – Safety – Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for room heaters.

Water heaters
EN 60335235
House­hold and sim­i­lar elec­tri­cal appli­ances – Safety –Par­tic­u­lar require­ments for instan­ta­neous water heaters.


4. Tech­ni­cal file review (Tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion is reviewed– schemat­ics, PCB draw­ings, com­po­nent list, con­struc­tion draw­ings etc.)

If upper defined steps 24 are not suc­cess­fully passed
5. Development/​troubleshooting (House­hold equip­ment man­u­fac­turer receives fail­ing EMC and LVD test reports and caries out house­hold equip­ment improve­ments to pass EMC test­ing and LVD test­ing and tech­ni­cal file review. RF EMC DEVEL­OP­MENT can offer help in this stage to reduce time required for house­hold equip­ment cer­ti­fi­ca­tion).

6. House­hold equip­ment cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is car­ried out by Euro­pean Union Noti­fied body).

7. Doc­u­men­ta­tion trans­fer to house­hold equip­ment man­u­fac­turer (Doc­u­men­ta­tion includes:

  • House­hold equip­ment EMC test report,
  • House­hold equip­ment LVD test report,
  • House­hold equip­ment tech­ni­cal file,
  • House­hold equip­ment Certificate,
  • House­hold equip­ment CE mark).


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