SR EN 60079-5:2008

Explosive atmospheres -- Part 5: Equipment protection by powder filling "q"

Contains specific requirements for the construction, testing and marking of electrical equipment, parts of electrical equipment and Ex components in the type of protection powder filling 'q', intended for use in explosive gas atmospheres. The significant changes with respect to the previous edition are: all requirements for third-party certification removed; requirements for external connections added; all requirements for cable glands deleted as they have been transferred to 60079-0; specific requirements for cells and batteries introduced; added relaxation requirements on required faults for fuse-protected equipment and added requirements for instructions.

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General information

Status : Withdrawn
Approval date : 6/30/2008
Publish date : 7/2/2008
Withdrawal date : 3/24/2018
Number of pages : 28
ICS : 29.260.20 Electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres
Technical Committee : 137 - Electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres

Relations with other standards:

Replaces SR EN 50017:2003
Normative reference SR ISO 3310-2:2000
Normative reference SR EN 60079-7:2007
Normative reference SR EN 60529:1995/A1:2003
Normative reference SR EN 60079-11:2007
Normative reference SR ISO 2591-1:1998
Normative reference SR EN 60079-0:2010
Normative reference SR EN 60529:1995
Normative reference SR EN 60079-1:2008
Normative reference SR ISO 3310-1:2000
Replaced by SR EN 60079-5:2015