{"id":252754,"date":"2024-10-19T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/uncategorized\/bs-iec-62873-12017\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:01:30","slug":"bs-iec-62873-12017","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/publishers\/bsi\/bs-iec-62873-12017\/","title":{"rendered":"BS IEC 62873-1:2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IEC 62873 series covers available common standards intended to be used in conjunction with or for the preparation of RCD (residual current device) standards.<\/p>\n

This part of IEC 62873 defines the methodology and processes used when producing standards based on a new approach (hereafter referred to as blocks and modules) aiming at harmonizing a family of standards, thus avoiding mistakes, inconsistencies or discrepancies within this family of standards. The family of standards considered in this document consists of standards for RCCBs (Residual Current Circuit-Breakers without overcurrent protection), RCBOs (Residual Current Circuit-Breakers with overcurrent Protection), and general safety requirements for residual current operated protective devices (namely IEC 61008-1, IEC 61009-1 and IEC TR 60755).<\/p>\n

This approach defines a way to optimize drafting of standards, aiming to keep a common or similar structure, to have common clauses (as far as possible), to avoid inconsistencies, to do editorial work only once, to speed up production of standards, to ensure that a comment on one clause in one standard is also taken into account in other standards, if needed.<\/p>\n

The principles of the blocks and modules approach are:<\/p>\n