IEC EN 62610-2 Mechanical Structures for Electrical and Electronic Equipment - Part 2: Method for Determination of Forced Air Cooling

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IEC EN 62610-2 Mechanical Structures for Electrical and Electronic Equipment - Part 2: Method for Determination of Forced Air Cooling

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of IEC EN 62610-2 testing. It provides compliant methods for configuring forced air-cooled cabinets mounted with respective sub-racks or chassis in accordance with IEC EN 62610-2, IEC 60297 and IEC 60917 series.

IEC EN 62610-2 Mechanical Structures for Electrical and Electronic Equipment - Part 2: Method for Determination of Forced Air Cooling

This standard includes:

  • Thermal interfaces of lower racks or chassis-based equipment in a cabinet; reference temperature, preferred airflow conditions, airflow volume conditions, standard air;
  • Procedures for determining compatible forced airflow conditions in a cabinet by applying typical thermal interface conditions.

The illustrations used are not intended to indicate the product design. These are for explanatory indications for determining forced air cooling only.

In order to obtain repeatable and comparable values, standard air is defined at the air inlet to be used in determining the thermal capacity and requirement parameters of the products.

The thermal operating temperature of the lower shelf and chassis inside the cabinet should be defined at the air inlet and this temperature is called the reference temperature in this technical specification. The reference temperature is defined as the temperature of the objective ambient air of the equipment in the cabinet, which is a starting point for an increase in the internal temperatures of the equipment and also affects the internal temperatures of the equipment.

The cabinet with forced air cooling devices must have sufficient cooling capacity for power distribution to maintain the cooling capacities of the various lower racks or enclosures with air cooling devices inside. A cabinet with one or more lower racks and chassis shall have an exhaust air ventilation capacity equal to or greater than the sum of the airflow volume of the lower racks and the chassis. This means that the cabinet does not block the ventilation capacities of the respective lower shelves.

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