NOM-001-SCFI-2018 will enter into force on May 14, 2020, cancelling NOM-001-SCFI-1993, Electronic Devices-Domestic Electronic Devices Powered by Different Sources of Electrical Energy-Safety Requirements and Testing Methods for Type Approval. View Federal Official Gazette.
The NOM establishes the safety requirements that electronic equipment must meet, that are manufactured, imported, commercialized, distributed or leased, in the territory of the United Mexican States, with the purpose of preventing danger to consumers and for the conservation of their assets, in terms of the absence of risk of unacceptable damage, depending on the use properties of the equipment, foreseeing reasonably foreseeable misuse, when their installation, conservation and use correspond to the purpose for which they are intended according to the following principles:
- Protection against electric shock;
- Protection against mechanical hazards;
- Protection against optical radiation;
- Fire protection;
- Protection against thermal effects, and
- Protection against biological and chemical effects.
NOM-001-SCFI-2018 applies to electronic equipment and its accessories that use the electric power of the public service for its supply, with single-phase supply voltages up to 277 V AC at 60 Hz and / or three-phase voltages up to 480 V AC between lines at 60 Hz; as well as other energy sources (such as batteries, accumulators, autogeneration and alternative power supplies up to 500 V DC).
This Official Mexican Standard also applies to external power supplies, which are used in conjunction with the electronic equipment contemplated in this Official Mexican Standard, which are marketed, distributed or supplied, either individually or as part of a product of final use in the same packaging, and to external power supplies that are marketed individually for information technology equipment contemplated in the field of application of NOM-019-SCFI-1998 or that replaces it, in both cases for use in DC power supplies up to 250 V and in AC power supplies up to 480 V at 60 Hz.
Exclusions to the Standard are defined in Chapter 1.3.
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