EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60684-3-218 NORME EUROPEENNE August 1998 EUROPAISCHE NORM ICS 29.035.01 Descriptors: Solid electrical insulating materials, protection sleevings,heat-shrinkable materials, polyolefins, flexible conductors, designation, individual specifications, dimensions, mass, characteristics, tables of data, breakdown voltage English version Flexible insulating sleeving Part 3: Specifications for individual types of sleeving Sheet 218: Heat-shrinkable polyolefin sleeving, not flame retarded, shrink ratio 3 : 1 (IEC 60684-3-218:1998) Gaines isolantes souples Isolierschlauche Partie 3: Spécifications pour types Teil 3: Anforderungen fur einzelne Schlauchtypen particuliers de gaines Feuille 218: Gaines thermorétractables en Blatt 218: Warmeschrumpfende polyolefine, non retardée a la flamme, Polyolefinschlauche, nicht-flammwidrig, rapport de rétreint 3 : 1 Schrumpfverhaltnis 3 : 1 (CEI 60684-3-218:1998) (IEC 60684-3-218:1998) This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 1998-08-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal RegulationswhichstipulatetheconditionsforgivingthisEuropeanStandard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions. CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Comité Européeen de Normalisation Electrotechnique Europaisches Komitee fur Elektrotechnische Normung Central Secretariat: rue de Stassart 35, B-1050 Brussels @ 1998 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members. Ref. No. EN 60684-3-218:1998 E EN 60684-3-218:1998 Foreword Contents Page The text of document 15C/958/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 60684-3-218, prepared by SC 15C, Foreword 2 Specifications, of IEC TC 15, Insulating materials, Introduction 3 was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote Scope 3 1 and was approved by CENELEC as EN 60684-3-218 on 1998-08-01. 2 Normative references 3 The following dates were fixed: 3 Designation 3 latest date by which the 4 Conditions of test 4 EN has to be implemented 5 Requirements 4 at national level by 6 Product qualification 4 publication of an identical Annex ZA (normative) Normative references national standard or by to international publications with their (dop) 1999-05-01 endorsement 8 corresponding European publications latest date by which the Table 1 - Dimensional and mass national standards 4 requirements conflicting with the EN Table 2 Property requirements 5 have to be withdrawn (dow) 2001-05-01 Table 3 - Requirements for breakdown Annexes designated “normative" are part of the voltage 6 body of the standard. 7 Table 4 Resistance to selected fluids In this standard, Annex ZA is normative. Table 5 - Additional property requirements 7 Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC. Endorsement notice The text of the International Standard IEC 60684-3-218:1998 was approved by CENELEC as a European Standard without any modification. 2 EN 60684-3-218:1998 Introduction This International Standard is one of a series which deals with flexible insulating sleeving for electrical purposes The series consists of three parts: - Part 1: Definitions and general requirements (IEC 60684-1); -Part 2: Methods of test (IEC 60684-2); Part 3: Specification for individual types of sleeving (IEC 60684-3). This