IEC 60884-2-5:2017

FOREWORD
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 General requirements
5 General remarks on tests
6 Ratings
7 Classification
8 Marking
9 Checking of dimensions
10 Protection against electric shock
11 Provision for earthing
12 Terminals and terminations
13 Construction of fixed socket-outlets
14 Construction of adaptors
15 Interlocked socket-outlet parts of adaptors
16 Resistance to ageing, protection provided by
   enclosures, and resistance to humidity
17 Insulation resistance and electric strength
18 Operation of earthing contacts
19 Temperature rise
20 Breaking capacity
21 Normal operation
22 Force necessary to withdraw the plug
23 Flexible cables and their connection
24 Mechanical strength
25 Resistance to heat
26 Screws, current-carrying parts and connections
27 Creepage distances, clearances and distances
   through sealing compound
28 Resistance of insulating material to abnormal
   heat, to fire and to tracking
29 Resistance to rusting
30 Additional tests on pins provided with insulating
   sleeves
Annex A (normative) - Safety-related routine tests
        for factory-wired portable accessories (protection
        against electric shock and correct polarity)
Annex B (normative) - Survey of specimens needed
        for tests
Annex C (informative) - Alternative gripping tests
Annex D (normative) - Switches incorporated in
        adaptors
Annex E (informative) - Changes planned for the
        future in order to align IEC 60884-1 with the
        requirements of IEC 60228, IEC 60998 and
        IEC 60999
Annex AA (normative) - Travel adaptors
Annex BB (informative) - Examples of adaptors
Bibliography

IEC 60884-2-5:2017 applies to adaptors for a.c. only with or without earthing contact, with a rated voltage greater than 50 V but not exceeding 440 V and a rated current not exceeding 32 A, intended for household and similar purposes, either indoors or outdoors.
This document also applies to travel adaptors (see Annex AA). For travel adaptors the scope is limited to a voltage rating greater than 50 V but not exceeding 250 V and to a current rating not exceeding 20 A.
Travel adaptors allowing the simultaneous connection of two or more plugs are not covered by this document.
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 1995. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) a general alignment with IEC 60884-1:2002, Amendment 1:2006 and Amendment 2:2013;
b) new and modified definitions;
c) requirements for travel adaptors, for adaptors with additional functions and for adaptors with a cable outlet;
d) requirements for adaptors with incorporated overcurrent protective devices;
e) requirement to warn against inserting an adaptor into another adaptor;
f) new requirements for the construction and shape of the adaptors.