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Description / Abstract:
These requirements cover electrical equipment for control of
air-conditioning, heating, cooking, refrigeration, and humidity,
rated 600 volts or less, to be used in ordinary locations in
accordance with the National Electrical Code, NFPA 70.
These requirements cover general-use equipment for
field-installation and controls intended to be factory installed on
or in certain appliances as safety, limiting, or operating
controls. These controls respond directly or indirectly to changes
in temperature, humidity, or pressure to effect control of
equipment or appliance operation. Devices covered by these
requirements include:
a) Refrigeration Controllers – Humidistats for factory
installation on or in refrigeration equipment; pressure,
temperature, pneumatic pressure, motor, timer, bimetallic-heater,
magnetically-operated controls, and the like, and combinations
thereof in control panels with or without transformers. See
1.4.
b) Industrial Operating Controls – Temperature controllers for
industrial, farm, and boiler room applications; snow melting
controls; return-duct humidistats; humidity controllers; pneumatic
pressure regulators; transformer (low-voltage secondary) relays;
pneumatic pressure, bimetallicheater, motor, timer, and
magnetically operated sequence switches; stoker controls;
indicating and recording controls; and motor operators for
actuating air dampers. These requirements do not cover output
connected apparatus such as dampers, linkages, or valves.
c) Residential Operating Controls – Room thermostats, room
humidistats, and other operating controls for residential heating
and cooling appliances.
d) Controls for Factory Installation on or in Appliances –
1) Controls as mentioned in (a) – (c) but specifically intended
for use on, in, or as a part of the end-use equipment.
2) Electric water-heater controls intended to regulate or limit
water temperature.
3) Other controls including door-interlock thermostats for
self-cleaning ovens; baseboard heater temperature-limiting
controls; humidifier controls; fan thermostats; and
temperature-regulating and -limiting thermostats for electric
heating equipment such as clothes dryers, air heaters, household
and commercial cooking appliances, beautyparlor equipment, steam
and dry bath heaters, and ranges (controlling oven or surface
elements).
Certain safety controls, and safety control circuits on
operating controls, are investigated under the requirements in this
standard, insofar as they apply, and also under the applicable
requirements for limit controls.