I am struggling with a claim that "German Law" does not allow "type AC" RCDs (Residual Current Devices) in industrial machinery.
The 2005-06 edition (in German) is being cited. If anyone has experience in this area I would welcome your insight. I can not find a link between "German Law" or CE marking and VDE 0100-530 nor its cousin IEC 60364-5-53. I have an English copy of the IEC doc and see no restriction on type AC RCDs but it does appear to be very different from the German VDE. The claim is, in part, that VDE 0100-530 and IEC 60364-5-53 are not equivalent (the VDE being stricter) but this seems to be contrary to the association of the two at DKE ref http://www.dke.din.de/cmd;jsessioni =58E350673DC30AED0D45A327BF55FD4D.4?lev l=tpl-art-detailansicht&artid=85316918& ommitteeid=54738887&bcrumblevel=2&languageid=en I suspect that VDE 0100 plays a role much like the NEC in the US, and that it does not constrain industrial machinery (just as the NEC has section 670 pointing to NFPA 79 for industrial machinery). So even if VDE 0100-530 does have the suggested prohibition of Type AC RCDs it is not clear that this should apply to machinery. Regards, Lauren Crane (Mr.) Product Regulatory Analyst Corporate Product EHS Lead Applied Materials Inc. Austin, TX 512 272-6540 [#922 26540] -External Use- Save paper and trees! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
