EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of IEC EN 60695-1-10 test. IEC EN 60695-1-10 provides general guidance on fire hazard testing on how to reduce the risk of fire and the potential effects of fires involving electrotechnical products to a tolerable level. It also serves as a signpost standard to other guide publications in the IEC EN 60695 series.
It does not provide guidance on the use of fire-rated compartment boundaries or the use of detection and extinguishing systems to reduce the risk of fire. It explains the relationship between fire risk and the potential effects of fire and provides guidance to IEC product committees on the applicability of qualitative and quantitative fire tests to the fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products.
Details on the calculation of the fire risk are not covered by this document. It highlights the importance of the scenario approach for fire hazard and risk assessment and discusses criteria for enabling the development of technically sound hazard-based fire testing methods. Discusses the different types of fire tests, especially the nature of qualitative and quantitative fire tests. It also describes the circumstances under which it is appropriate for IEC product committees to maintain or develop qualitative fire tests. The purpose of this standard is to guide IEC committees and will be used according to their individual applications.
Fires involving electrotechnical products can also be started from external sources other than electricity. Matters of this nature are addressed in the overall risk assessment. Evaluation of the fire hazard of electrotechnical products is carried out by performing fire hazard tests. These tests are divided into two basic groups as qualitative fire tests and quantitative fire tests.
The purposes of fire hazard testing of electrotechnical products are to determine which fire characteristics of the product contribute to the potential effects of fire or how the product or product part contributes to the initiation, growth and impact of a fire, and then use this information to reduce fire risks in electrotechnical products.
Qualitative fire testing is tests that express results on a discontinuous scale. The group of qualitative fire tests includes pass-fail tests and other tests that classify products according to their position in a performance order. Qualitative fire tests do not provide data suitable for the purpose of measuring fire risk. The results of such tests cannot be correlated with real-scale fire performance because the test conditions cannot be correlated with the fire scenario or related scenarios. However, this set of tests is useful at the material preselection level or for specific final product testing, as qualitative fire tests classify products by fire risk or give a clear pass-fail result when tested according to standard fire test procedure.
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