BS EN 60704-2-5:2005+A1:2015

This standard BS EN 60704-2-5:2005+A1:2015 Household and similar electrical appliances. Test code for the determination of airborne acoustical noise is classified in these ICS categories:

• 97.100.10 Electric heaters
• 17.140.20 Noise emitted by machines and equipment

1.1.1 General

Replacement:

These particular requirements apply to the electric thermal storage room heaters having forced convection output, designed for placing on the floor, for wall-mounting or for building-in.

These particular requirements do not apply to:

• controlled output thermal storage heaters with natural convection;

• free output thermal storage heaters;

• permanently installed central storage heating systems or their parts.

1.1.2 Types of noise

Replacement:

ISO 3743-1, ISO 3743-2 and ISO 3744 can all be used for measuring noise emitted by electric thermal storage room heaters.

1.1.3 Size of the source

Replacement:

The method specified in ISO 3744 is applicable to noise sources of any size (limited only by available test environment). When applying ISO 3743-1 and ISO 3743-2, care should be taken that the maximum size of the appliance under test fulfils the requirements specified in 1.3 of ISO 3743-1 and ISO 3743-2.