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Are LED lighting stuff requires safety standard to be legal in your country « on: August 27, 2018, 04:44:05 AM » Author: dor123
Are LED lighting stuff (Such as LED lamps and fixtures) requires safety standard to be legal in your country?

I ask this, since I've read and heard that LED stuff here in Israel, are exempt from the SII mark, which means that dangerous LED products which can cause electric shocks, explosions, fires, injuries and deaths are legal to being imported to Israel.
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Re: Are LED lighting stuff requires safety standard to be legal in your country « Reply #1 on: August 27, 2018, 10:44:10 AM » Author: Medved
Lighting has usually its own standards which are different from generic equipment safety standards.
One of the differences is, the light bulb itself does not need any stronger shock protection than normal working insulation. The reason is, the fixture itself is supposed to form the second "layer".
Similar reason: The light socket contacts do not need to be designed to really prevent the finger contact with live electricity as strongly as e.g. wall outlet sockets are required to do. Again, the reason is the standard outlets are supposed to be connected/disconnected when the power is ON, while the lam[p sockets only when the power is OFF.
Others are the surface temperature limits, toughness (so how much abuse it should tolerate before live components become exposed) and many others in similar manner.

So yes, LEDs with incandescent sockets are exempt from many criteria, the same way as regular incandecsents are. From this perspective the standards do not differ between LEDs ad incandescents.

In some places the LEDs are being evaluated in larger extend according to the (stricter) rules, like the surface temperature or so.

And if the thing is not thereplacement for an incandescent lamp or so, but a complete fixture, then rules for such category light fixture apply.

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