BS EN IEC 60598-2-17:2018

What is BS EN IEC 60598-2-17 - Luminaires for stage lighting, television, and film studios about?  

BS EN IEC 60598-2-17 discusses luminaires with a focus on particular requirements of luminaires for stage lighting, television, and film studios (outdoor and indoor).  

BS EN IEC 60598-2-17 specifies requirements for stage, television, film, and photographic studio luminaires (including spot and floodlighting projectors) for use outdoors and indoors, with electric light sources on supply voltages not exceeding 1 000 V. 

Note: A hanger (stirrup) is a part of the luminaire. Supporting devices such as tripods, telescopic booms and suspensions are not parts of the luminaire. Where applicable, ballasts are built into or mounted separately from the luminaires. 

Who is BS EN IEC 60598-2-17 - Luminaires for stage lighting, television, and film studios for? 

BS EN IEC 60598-2-17 on luminaires for stage lighting, television, and film studios is useful for: 

• Lighting engineers 
• Electrical contractors 
• Landlords, employers, and any individual with responsibility for premises such as hospitals, care homes, hotels, schools, laboratories, theatres, cinemas, concert halls, sports halls, libraries, shops, museums, and sports stadia 

Why should you use BS EN IEC 60598-2-17- Luminaires for stage lighting, television, and film studios?  

Luminaire is provided with a protective glass shield in the form of a single lens, the openings of the mesh shall not exceed 25 mm. If the luminaire is fitted with a multi-lens objective no mesh is necessary. 

BS EN IEC 60598-2-17 discusses general test requirements, classification of luminaires, marking construction, creepage distances and clearances, provisions for earthing, terminals, external and internal wiring, protection against electric shock, endurance tests and thermal tests, resistance to dust, solid objects, and moisture, insulation resistance, electric strength, touch current and protective conductor current, resistance to heat, fire, and tracking. 

What’s changed since the last update?  

BS EN IEC 60598-2-17:2018 supersedes IEC 60598-2-17, which is withdrawn. BS EN IEC 60598-2-17:2018 includes some technical changes with respect to IEC 60598-2-17.  

These include: 

• Extension of the applicable scope from the light source to electric light source and replacement of "tungsten filament, tubular fluorescent, and other discharge lamps" with "electric light source" in 17.1 
• Consideration of the fact that there are many LED luminaires with non-replaceable light source, and light source without a glass bulb, or with low operation temperature: the applicable scope of relevant clauses therefore only applies to replaceable light source luminaires with a glass bulb lamp, or with high surface temperature