European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

Low-voltage fuses - Part 6: Supplementary requirements for fuse-links for the protection of solar photovoltaic energy systems
 N EN 60269-6

Annotation

Scope and object

These supplementary requirements apply to fuse-links for protecting PV strings and PV arrays in equipment for circuits of nominal voltages up to 1 500 V d.c.

Their rated voltage may be up to 1 500 V d.c.

NOTE 1 Such fuse-Iinks are commonly referred to as "PV fuse-links".

NOTE 2 In most cases, a part of the associated equipment serves the purpose of a fuse-base. Owing to the great variety of equipment, no general rules can be given; the suitability of the associated equipment to serve as a fusebase should be subject to agreement between the manufacturer and the user. However, if separate fuse-bases or fuse-holders are used, they should comply with the appropriate requirements of IEC 60269 series.

NOTE 3 PV fuse-links protect down stream inverter components such as capacitors or the discharge of capacitors back into the arrays or array wiring up to the rated breaking capacity.

The object of these supplementary requirements is to establish the characteristics of PV fuselinks in such a way that they can be replaced by other fuse-links having the same characteristics, provided that their dimensions are identical. For this purpose, this standard refers in particular to

a) the following characteristics of fuses:

1) their rated values;

2) their utilisation category;