International Electrotechnical Commission

Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use – Part 2-033: Particular requirements for HAND-HELD MULTIMETERS and other METERS, for domestic and professional use, capable of measuring MAINS voltage - Edition 1.0
 N 61010-2-033

Annotation

Scope and object

This clause of Part 1 is applicable except as follows:

Equipment included in scope

Replacement:

Replace the existing text with the following:

This part of IEC 61010 specifies safety requirements for METERS.

The METERS that have a primary purpose of measuring voltage on a live MAINS CIRCUIT are within the scope of this standard. They have various names, but all of them have capability for measurements of voltages on a live MAINS CIRCUIT. Some of the names given to this equipment are as follows:

– MULTIMETER;

– digital MULTIMETER;

– VOLTMETER;

– clamp METER (see also Part 2-032).

For the purpose of this standard, the term METER is used for these HAND-HELD measuring instruments.

NOTE Parts of the equipment that are not within the scope of this Part 2-033 are considered to be covered by the requirements of Part 1 or other part 2's of IEC 61010 and then will also need to meet the requirements of these other parts.

Equipment excluded from scope