IS 18689 : 2024 Household and Similar Electrical Appliances - Safety - Particular Requirements for Commercial Refrigerating Appliances and Ice- Makers with an Incorporated or Remote Refrigerant Unit or Motor-Compressor (IEC 60335-2-89 : 2019, MOD)
(Superseding IS/IEC 60335-2-89 : 2010)
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard which is modified adoption of IEC 60335-2-89 : 2019 'Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-89: Particular requirements for commercial refrigerating appliances and ice-makers with an incorporated or remote refrigerant unit or motor-compressor' issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sectional Committee and approval of the Mechanical Engineering Division council.
This standard was earlier published as IS/IEC 60335-2-89 : 2010 'Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety: Part 2-89: Particular requirements for commercial refrigerating appliances with an incorporated or remote refrigerant unit or compressor'. The new standard has been taken up to adopt the standard IEC 60335-2-89 : 2019 with modifications.
This new standard supersedes IS/IEC 60335-2-89 : 2010 'Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety: Part 2-89: Particular requirements for commercial refrigerating appliances with an incorporated or remote refrigerant unit or compressor'.
The IEC standard has been approved for publication as Indian Standard with modifications (see National Annex DD). Additionally, certain terminologies and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:
a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appear referring to this standard, they should be read as 'Indian Standard'; and
b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.