What is BS EN IEC 60352‑3 about? 
BS EN IEC 60352‑3 is a multi-part series of European standard which discusses about the solderless connections.
BS EN IEC 60352‑3 is applicable to ID connection which are accessible for tests and measurements according to Clauses 6 through 8 and which are made with:
- Appropriately designed accessible ID terminations
- Wires having solid round conductors of 0,25 mm to 3,6 mm nominal diameter
- Wires having stranded conductors of 0,05 mm2 to 10 mm2 cross-sectional area
Who is BS EN IEC 60352‑3 for?
BS EN IEC 60352‑3 on insulation displacement of solderless connections is useful for:
- Manufacturers of solderless connections
- Companies dealing with insulating displacement connection
- Retailer and suppliers for supplying solderless connectors
Why should you use BS EN IEC 60352‑3?
Solderless connectors are designed to allow you to make a solderless connection to LED strip lights. Insulation displacement connection is the solderless electrical connection made by inserting a single wore into a precisely controlled slot in a termination such that the slides of the slot displace the insulation and deform the conductor of a solid wire or the strands of a stranded wire to produce a gas-light connection.
Accessible insulation displacement connection is an ID connection in which it is possible to access test points for carrying out mechanical tests and electrical measurements without deactivation of any design feature intended to establish and/or maintain the ID connection.
Adherence to BS EN IEC 60352‑3 enables you:
- To determine the suitability of accessible ID connections under mechanical, electrical and atmospheric conditions.
- To provide a means of comparing test results when the tools used to make the connection, if any, are of different designs or manufacture.
Guidance on material and data from industrial experience is included in BS EN IEC 60352‑3 in addition to the test procedures allows you provide electrically stable connections under prescribed environmental conditions.
BS EN IEC 60352‑3 gives you the general requirements of solderless connections which includes: conductor, wire, ID connection, accessible ID connection, ID termination and non-accessible ID connection, which helps in manufacturing the ID connection for solderless connection in a precise way.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN IEC 60352‑3:2020 supersedes BS EN 60352‑3:1995, which is withdrawn. It includes:
- Subclause 7.2.2: reduce the limit of duration of contact disturbance to 1 μs
- Subclause 7.2.3: reduce the limit of duration of contact disturbance to 1 μs
- Transferred Clauses 9 to 13 to Annex A (informative)
- The figures were revised for clarity
