What is BS EN IEC 60879 - Comfort fans and regulators about?
BS EN IEC 60879 discusses comfort fans and regulators for household and similar purposes. Comfort fans and regulators are considered the most effective of these types of fans because they effectively circulate the air in a room to create a draft throughout the room. BS EN IEC 60879 specifies the performance measuring methods of comfort fans and regulators for household and similar purposes, including conventional fans, tower fans and bladeless fans, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for single-phase fans and 480 V for other fans, and their rated power input being less than 125 W.
Who is BS EN IEC 60879 - Comfort fans and regulators for?
BS EN IEC 60879 on comfort fans and regulators is useful for:
- Fan manufacturing industry
- Regulator manufacturing sector
- Design engineers
- Quality control personnel
- Research and development facilities
Why should you use BS EN IEC 60879 - Comfort fans and regulators?
Comfort fans and regulators cool people effectively by increasing airspeed. Fans do not reduce air temperature or relative humidity, unlike air-conditioning equipment but create a cooling effect by helping to evaporate sweat and increase heat exchange via convection. BS EN IEC 60879 describes a fan primarily designed for creating air movement around or on part of a human body for personal cooling comfort, including fans that can perform additional functionalities such as lighting.
Testing a comfort fan as described in BS EN IEC 60879 includes general conditions for testing, testing of air performance, measurement of regulator performance, measurement of fan power input, measurement of sound power level, and measurement of standby power. BS EN IEC 60879 provides the information on rated fan flow rate m3/min (rounded to one decimal place), service value (m3/min)/W (rounded to one decimal place), standby power consumption W (rounded to one decimal place), sound power level dB(A).Using BS EN IEC 60879 you can specify the performance measuring methods of comfort fans and regulators for household and similar purposes.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN IEC 60879:2019 supersedes BS 5060:1987. BS EN IEC 60879:2019 includes some technical changes with respect to BS 5060:1987. These include:
- The definitions of fans have been revised
- The test methods for the different types of fans have been revised to allow modern test instrumentation to be used
- Acoustic noise measurement and standby power measurement methods have been introduced
