Source: Mega ElectronicsMega Electronics highlights recent global certification updates that impact power supplies and cords for the export market.
Power Supplies
Taiwan will implement a new requirement mandatory as of December 31, 2017. Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) will be included within the approval mark.
Belarus [pdf] has finalized the mandatory energy efficiency requirements regarding the EurAsian Conformity (EAC) mark on external power supplies. These requirements took place on April 1, 2017, and will impact additional household devices including sound and imaging equipment. The EAC mark is required.
Power Cords
India has updated the internal color-code for power cords. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Certification requires the Internal color-code in power cords to be red, black, green/yellow. BIS certification is mandatory for shipments to India.
South African power cords are required by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) to have the internal color-code of blue, brown, green/yellow.
Thailand now requires Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) approval. Plug standard TIS166-2549 is unique to Thailand and replaces the various plugs that had been accepted in the past. The plug has two insulated pins, lowering the risk of inadvertent shocks on insertion. The approval is mandatory to ship to Thailand.
Japan - Comparative Tracking Index (CTI) requirements and Proof of Tracking (PTI) for Japanese power cords. The PTI requirement on the plugs' surface has been introduced by Japan as a mandatory requirement approximately one year ago.
PTI is the voltage at which during testing on five samples, the samples pass the test with no failures. Tracking is an electrical breakdown on the surface of an insulating material. A large voltage difference gradually creates a conductive leakage path across the surface of the material by forming a carbonized track that could ultimately cause risk of fire.
All Japan plugs supplied by MEGA Electronics Inc. conform with the PTI requirement and are Product Safety Electrical (PSE) Appliance & Material approved.
