Electric and optical fibre cables - Test methods for non-metallic materials - Part 408: Miscellaneous tests - Long-term stability test of polyethylene and polypropylene compounds

IEC 60811-408:2012 gives the procedure to establish as to whether or not the quality of a cable's components will be satisfactory over the proposed life of a communication cable. IEC 60811-408:2012 cancels and replaces Annex A of IEC 60811-4-2:2004, which is withdrawn. Full details of the replacements are shown in Annex A of IEC 60811-100:2012. There are no specific technical changes with respect to the previous edition, but see the Foreword to IEC 60811-100:2012.
This publication is to be read in conjunction with IEC 60811-100:2012.

Câbles électriques et à fibres optiques - Méthodes d'essai pour les matériaux non-métalliques - Partie 408: Essais divers - Essai de stabilité à long terme pour les mélanges polyéthylène et polypropylène

La CEI 60811-408:2012 décrit la procédure à suivre pour déterminer si la qualité des composants d'un câble est suffisante pour la durée de vie envisagée d'un câble de communication. La CEI 60811-408:2012 annule et remplace l'Annexe A de la CEI 60811-4-2:2004, qui est supprimée. L'ensemble des informations relatives aux remplacements figure dans l'Annexe A de la CEI 60811-100:2012. Aucune modification technique n'a été effectuée par rapport à l'édition précédente; voir cependant l'avant-propos de la CEI 60811-100:2012.
Cette publication doit être lue conjointement avec la CEI 60811-100:2012.

Alarm systems - Part 1: General requirements - Section One: General

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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-1995
Alarm systems - Part 1: General requirements - Section One: General
Alarm systems. Part 1: General requirements. Section One: General
Systèmes d'alarme. Première partie: Prescriptions générales. Section un: Généralités
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: IEC 60839-1-1
ICS:
13.320 Alarmni in opozorilni sistemi Alarm and warning systems
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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Systèmes d'alarme
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Prescriptions générales
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Généralités
Alarm systems
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CONTENTS
Pa 9e
FOREWORD 5
PREFACE 5
Clause
1. Scope 7
2. Object 9
3. Reference documents 9
4. Definitions 9
5. General considerations 15
6. Requirements 17
7. Installation 23
8. Test procedures 23
9. Operation and maintenance 25

839-1-1 (1) © IEC -
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
ALARM SYSTEMS
Part 1: General requirements
Section One - General
FOREWORD
1)
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Committees on which all the National Committees having a special interest therein are
represented, express, as nearly as possible, an international consensus of opinion on the
subjects dealt with.
2)
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indicated in the latter.
PREFACE
This standard has been prepared by IEC Technical Committee No. 79:
Alarm systems.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
Six Months' Rule Report on Voting
79(C0)14 79(C0)18
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be
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ALARM SYSTEMS
Part 1: General requirements
Section One - General
1. Scope
This standard specifies the general requirements for the design,
installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance test and records of
manual and automatic alarm systems employed for the protection of
persons, property and the environment.
The specific requirements for particular types of alarm systems are
specified in separate standards, which shall be used in conjunction
with this standard. This standard does not cover remote centres.
A Code of Practice is added to this standard.
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5 2
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874/88
1 = detector
2 = control equipment
3 = power supply
4 = visual and/or audible indicating equipment
5 = device activated by control equipment
6 = program input device
7 = signalling interface (modem)
Fig. 1. - Common parts of different alarm systems.

839-1-1 (1) © IEC 9
2. Object
To ensure a high standard of safety, performance and reliability for
alarm systems. To reduce the incidence of false alarms and to ensure
compatibility of combined systems.
3. Reference documents
IEC Publications:
65 (1985): Safety requirements for mains operated electronic and
related apparatus for household and similar general
use.
79: Electrical apparatus for explosive gas atmospheres.
364: Electrical installations of buildings.
529 (1976) : Classification of degrees of protection provided by
enclosures. (First edition (1976) incorporating Amend-
ment No. 1 (1978).)
617: Graphical symbols for diagrams.
839-1-2 (1987): Alarm systems, Part 1: General requirements. Section
Two - Power units, test methods and performance
criteria.
839-1-3 (1988): Section Three - Environmental testing for alarm
systems.
839-2-2 (1987) : Part 2: Requirements for intruder* alarm systems.
Section Two - Requirements for detectors - General.
4. Definitions
For the purpose of standards for alarm systems, the following defini-
tions apply.
4.1 Alarm
A warning of the presence of a hazard to life, property or the
environment.
4.2 Alarm system
An electrical installation designed to detect and signal the presence
of an abnormal condition indicating the presence of a hazard.
4.3 Alarm company
An organization which provides and/or installs and/or maintains
alarm systems.
839-1-1 (1) © IEC
4.4 Subscriber
A person or organization utilizing the services of an alarm company
for the provision, installation and/or maintenance of an alarm system.
4.5 Supervised premises
That part of a building and/or area in which a hazard may be
detected by an alarm system.
4.6 Response authority
The designated authority with responsibility for attending the
supervised premises following an alarm and taking the appropriate
action.
4.7 Normal condition
The condition of an alarm system when it is fully operational and is
not in any other defined condition.
4.8 Alarm condition
A condition of an alarm system, or part thereof which results from
the response of the system, to the presence of a hazard.
4.9
Fault condition
A condition of an alarm system which prevents the system from
functioning in accordance with the requirements of the appropriate
standards.
4.10 Test condition
A condition of an alarm system in which the normal functions are
modified for test purposes.
4.11 Disconnection condition
A deliberately created condition of an alarm system in which part of
the system is rendered inoperative.
4.12 Alarm signal
A signal generated by an alarm system when in an alarm condition.
4.13 Fault signal
A signal generated by an alarm system when in a fault condition.
4.14 Tamper device
A device designed to detect deliberate interference with a component
or part of an alarm system.
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4.15 Tamper detection
The application of tamper devices to detect deliberate interference
with an alarm system or part thereof.
4.16 Tamper protection
The application of electrical or mechanical means to prevent deli-
berate interference with an alarm system or part thereof.
4.17 Tamper alarm
An alarm generated by the operation of a tamper device.
4.18 False alarm
An alarm signal generated in error, caused by: accidental actuation
of a manual call point, response of an automatic device to conditions
other than that which it is designed to detect, malfunction or failure
of a component or an operator error.
4.19 Power supply
That part of an alarm system which provides power for the operation
of the system or any part thereof.
4.20 Detector
A device designed to generate an alarm condition in response to the
sensing of an abnormal condition indicating the presence of , a hazard.
4.21 Sensor
That part of a detector which senses a change in condition which
could indicate the presence of hazard.
Processor
4.22
A device which processes the output from one or more sensors to
determine whether an alarm condition should be generated.
4.23 Alarm receiving centre
A continuously manned remote centre to which the information
concerning the state of one or more alarm systems is reported.
4.24
Remote centre
A location, remote from the supervised premises, in which the infor-
mation concerning the state of one or more alarm systems is collected
either for reporting (in the case of an alarm receiving centre) or for
onward transmission (in the case of a satellite station or collector
point).
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4.25 Satellite station
A remote centre, normally unmanned but with provision for manning
in an emergency, in which the information concerning the state of a
number of alarm systems is collected for onward transmission, either
directly or via a further satellite station to an alarm receiving centre.
4.26 Collector point
An unmanned remote centre, without provision for manning in an
emergency, in which information concerning the state of a number of
alarm systems is collected for onward transmission either directly or
via a satellite station to an alarm receiving centre.
4.27 Monitoring centre
A manned remote centre in which the status of alarm transmission
systems is monitored.
4.28 Combined system
An alarm system designed to respond to more than one type of
hazard.
4.29
Alarm transmission system
A system which is used to transfer information concerning the state
of one or more alarm systems be
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IEC 60811-408 ®
Edition 1.0 2012-03
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Electric and optical fibre cables – Test methods for non-metallic materials –
Part 408: Miscellaneous tests – Long-term stability test of polyethylene and
polypropylene compounds
Câbles électriques et à fibres optiques – Méthodes d’essai pour les matériaux
non-métalliques –
Partie 408: Essais divers – Essai de stabilité à long terme pour les mélanges
polyéthylène et polypropylène
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IEC 60811-408 ®
Edition 1.0 2012-03
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Electric and optical fibre cables – Test methods for non-metallic materials –

Part 408: Miscellaneous tests – Long-term stability test of polyethylene and

polypropylene compounds
Câbles électriques et à fibres optiques – Méthodes d’essai pour les matériaux

non-métalliques –
Partie 408: Essais divers – Essai de stabilité à long terme pour les mélanges

polyéthylène et polypropylène
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
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ICS 29.035.01; 29.060.20 ISBN 978-2-88912-968-3

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Test method . 6
4.1 Test method for unfilled cables . 6
4.1.1 General . 6
4.1.2 Apparatus . 7
4.1.3 Sample and test piece preparation . 7
4.1.4 Ageing procedure . 7
4.1.5 Evaluation of the result . 8
4.2 Test method for fully filled cables . 8
4.2.1 General . 8
4.2.2 Apparatus . 8
4.2.3 Sample and test piece preparation . 8
4.2.4 Ageing procedure . 8
4.2.5 Evaluation of the result . 8
5 Test report. 8
Annex A (normative) Sample conditioning . 9
Bibliography . 10

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ELECTRIC AND OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES –
TEST METHODS FOR NON-METALLIC MATERIALS –

Part 408: Miscellaneous tests –
Long-term stability test of polyethylene and polypropylene compounds

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International Standard IEC 60811-408 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 20:
Electric cables.
This Part 408 of IEC 60811 cancels and replaces Annex A of IEC 60811-4-2:2004, which is
withdrawn. Full details of the replacements are shown in Annex A of IEC 60811-100:2012.
There are no specific technical changes with respect to the previous edition, but see the
Foreword to IEC 60811-100:2012.

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The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
20/1292/FDIS 20/1341/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
This part of IEC 60811 shall be used in conjunction with IEC 60811-100.
A list of all the parts in the IEC 60811 series, published under the general title Electric and
optical fibre cables – Test methods for non-metallic materials, can be found on the IEC
website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
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• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
60811-408  IEC:2012 – 5 –
INTRODUCTION
The IEC 60811 series specifies the test methods to be used for testing non-metallic materials
of all types of cables. These test methods are intended to be referenced in standards for
cable construction and for cable materials.
NOTE 1 Non-metallic materials are typically used for insulating, sheathing, bedding, filling or taping within cables.
NOTE 2 These test methods are accepted as basic and fundamental and have been developed and used over
many years principally for the materials in all energy cables. They have also been widely accepted and used for
other cables, in particular optical fibre cables, communication and control cables and cables for ships and offshore
applications.
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ELECTRIC AND OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES –
TEST METHODS FOR NON-METALLIC MATERIALS –

Part 408: Miscellaneous tests –
Long-term stability test of polyethylene and polypropylene compounds

1 Scope
This Part 408 of IEC 60811 gives the procedure to establish as to whether or not the quality of
a cable's components will be satisfactory over the proposed life of a communication cable.
This test is considered only as a material selection test to ensure that the chosen materials
are satisfactory for the intended life of the cable. The
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