CEI EN 60704-2-13 PDF

General

This part of IEC 60704 applies to electric appliances (including their accessories or components) for household and similar use, supplied from mains or from batteries.

By similar use is understood the use in similar conditions as in households, for example in inns, coffee-houses, tea-rooms, hotels, barber or hairdresser shops, launderettes, etc., if not otherwise specified in part 2.

This standard does not apply to

– appliances, equipment or machines designed exclusively for industrial or professional purposes;

– appliances which are integrated parts of a building or its installations, such as equipment for air conditioning, heating and ventilating (except household fans, cooker hoods and free standing heating appliances), oil burners for central heating, pumps for water supply and for sewage systems;

– separate motors or generators;

 – appliances for outdoor use.

These particular requirements apply to electrical range hoods and other cooking fume extractors for household and similar use intended for filtering the air of a room or for exhausting the air out of a room, including their accessories and their component parts. It also applies to cooking fume extractors with an external fan which may be mounted inside or outside of the room where the range hood is located or a down-draft system that is arranged beside, behind or under the cooking surface. 

Types of noise

The methods specified in ISO 3743-1, ISO 3743-2 and ISO 3744 can be used for measuring noise emitted by cooking fume extractors.

Size of source 

The method specified in ISO 3744 is applicable to noise sources of any size. When applying ISO 3743-1 and ISO 3743-2, care should be taken that the maximum size of the cooking fume extractor under test fulfils the requirements specified in 1.2 of ISO 3743-1 and 1.3 of ISO 3743-2.