Written By: Ken Liu
Product Safety Consulting
Project Engineer
IEC 62841
Electric Motor-Operated Hand-Held Tools, Transportable Tools and Lawn, and Garden Machinery
The safety of electric, motor-operated, or magnetically driven tools will now comply with IEC 62841, also known as the Power Tools Standard. Previous Standards will be replaced including but not limited to IEC 60745, IEC 60745, and IEC 61029. In the US and Canada, UL 62841 and CAN/CSA 22.2 No. 62841 are harmonized to the European EN 62841 with local deviations. The battery and charging system requirements are major changes that require compliance with an effective date of April 30, 2021. After that, all new product designs (cord or cordless) and revised constructions of currently certified products will be required to be evaluated in accordance with the new UL 62841 Standard.
The transition period to meet compliance will vary depending on the category. If your product is certified to the previous Standard, it is our recommendation that you begin the transition process to review against the new Standard’s requirements now. Don’t wait until the last day! Our Team will review your product, identify the requirement gaps, and conduct testing if needed.
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Even if you fully understand the procedure, there are plenty of areas in the safety approval process where the lighting manufacturer can get hung up. The best way to deal with these is to incorporate them into the design phase, before you’ve spent time and money in building prototypes, or worse — tooling up your production line. Careful attention paid to some key areas in the beginning can save countless dollars down the line.
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