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Draft Indian Standard

ARC WELDING EQUIPMENT

PART 1: WELDING POWER SOURCES
Last date for receipt of comments is: 30-07-2014.
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Electric Welding Equipment Sectional Committee, ETD 21

NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (Part 1) which is identical with IEC 60974-1:2012 Arc welding equipment
Part 1: Welding power sources issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
is proposed to be adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the
Electric Welding Equipment Sectional Committee and approval of the Electrotechnical Division
Council.
The text of IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard
without deviations. Certain terminology and conventions are however not identical to those used
in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:
a) Wherever the words International Standard appear referring to this standard, they
should be read as Indian Standard.
b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current
practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.
In this adopted standard, reference appears to certain International Standards for which Indian
Standards also exist. The corresponding Indian Standards, which are to be substituted in their
places, are listed below along with their degree of equivalence for the editions indicated:
International Standard

Corresponding Indian Standard

Degree of
Equivalence

IEC 60050-151 : 2001 International

Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV)
Part 151: Electrical and magnetic
devices
IEC 60245-6 Rubber insulated cables
Rated voltages up to and including
450/750 V Part 6: Arc welding
electrode cables

IS 1885 (Part 74) : 2012 Electroechnical

Vocabulary: Part 74 Electrical and magnetic
devices

Identical

IS 9857 : 1990 Welding Cables

Specification (first revision)

Technically
Equivalent

IEC 60529 Degrees of protection

provided by enclosures (IP Code)
IEC
60664-1:2007
Insulation
coordination for equipment within lowvoltage systems Part 1: Principles,
requirements and tests
IEC 60664-3 Insulation coordination
for equipment within low-voltage
systems Part 3: Use of coating,
potting or moulding for protection
against pollution
IEC 60695-11-10, Fire hazard testing
Part 11-10: Test flames 50 W
horizontal and vertical flame test
methods

IEC 61140 Protection against electric

shock Common aspects for
installation and equipment
IEC 61558-2-6 Safety of transformers,
reactors, power supply units and similar
products for supply voltages up to 1
100 V Part 2-6: Particular
requirements and tests for safety
isolating transformers and power
supply units incorporating safety
isolating transformers

IS/IEC 60529 : 2001 Degrees of protection

provided by enclosures (IP CODE)
IS 15382 (Part 1) : 2003 Insulation
Coordination for Equipment within LowVoltage Systems - Part 1 : Principles,
Requirements and Tests
IS 15382 (Part 3) : 2006 Insulation
coordination for equipment within lowvoltage systems : Part 3 use of coating
potting or moulding for protection against
pollution
IS 11000 (Part 1/Section 2) : 1988 Fire
Hazard testing : Part 1 Guidance for the
preparation of requirements and test
specifications for assessing fire hazard of
electronic and electrical items, Sec 2
Guidance for electronic components
IS 9409 : 1980 Classification of electrical
and electronic equipment with regard to
protection against electric shock
IS/IEC 61558 (Part 2/Section 6) : 1997
Safety of power Transformers, power
supply units
and similar: Part 2
particular requirements, Section 6 Safety
Isolating transformers for general use

Identical
do

do

Technically
Equivalent

Identical

do

The technical committee has reviewed the provisions of the following International Standards
referred to in this adopted standard and has decided that they are acceptable for use in
conjunction with this standard:
International Standard
IEC 60050-851 : 2008
IEC
60417-DB
20111
IEC 60445

IEC 60974-7
IEC 61558-2-4

Title

International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) Part 851: Electric

welding
: Graphical symbols for use on equipment
Basic and safety principles for man-machine interface, marking and
identification Identification of equipment terminals, conductor
terminations and conductors
Arc welding equipment Part 7: Torches
Safety of transformers, reactors, power supply units and similar
products for supply voltages up to 1 100 V Part 2-4: Particular
requirements and tests for isolating transformers and power supply
units incorporating isolating transformers

Only the English language text of the International Standard has been retained while adopting it
in this Indian Standard and as such the page numbers given here are not same as in the IEC
Publication.
For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this standard is complied with,
the final value, observed or calculated expressing the result of a test, shall be rounded off in
accordance with IS 2:1960 Rules for rounding of numerical values (revised). The number of
significant places retained in the rounded off value should be the same as that of the specified
value in this standard.

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corresponding IEC 60974-1:2012 or kindly contact:
Head
Electrotechnical Department
Bureau of Indian Standards
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