Comtest AS/NZS 60335.2.21 storage water heater testing

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Comtest has added to its NATA scope of accreditation AS/NZS 60335.2.21 ‘Household and similar electrical appliances - Particular requirements for storage water heaters’. The company’s service is suitable for importers or manufacturers of storage water heaters who want to be able to sell their products in Australia.

All electrical products sold or supplied in Australia must be electrically safe, as required by the Electrical Safety Regulations, and meet the requirements of AS/NZS 3820. Normally, a product must meet the applicable relevant Australian Standard or, where no product standard is applicable, AS/NZS 60335.1 and/or AS/NZS 3100 can be used as a basis of assessment to prove a product is safe and complies with the essential requirements of AS/NZS 3820. Comtest is accredited for testing to both these standards.

Australia’s Electrical Equipment Safety Scheme (EESS) is enhanced by a premarket approval scheme applicable to a limited list of approximately 50 ‘prescribed/declared’ classes of electrical household type equipment. This list of prescribed/declared electrical equipment has evolved through public and industry consultation over decades to include equipment that presents the greatest potential or actual safety risk. Storage water heaters are deemed to be prescribed/declared electrical household type equipment and must be tested to an applicable Standard.

As part of the testing, Comtest can also provide the appropriate IPX4 testing.

For more information: www.comtest.com.au/electrical-safety/electric-storage-water-heaters-tanks.