Revised Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 2) (First Revision) which is identical with IEC 61730-2 : 2016 ‘Photovoltaic (PV) module safety qualification - Part 2: Requirements for Testing’ issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Secondary Cells and Batteries Sectional Committee and approval of the Electrotechnical Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 2010. The first revision of this standard has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of IEC 61730-2 : 2016. This standard is a part of series of standards based on latest edition of IEC 61730 series. The other part in this series is:

Part 1 Requirements for Construction

The text of IEC standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. 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’.

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