National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 50342‑4:2020. It supersedes BS EN 50342‑4:2009, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee PEL/21, Secondary cells and batteries.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 November 2020.

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2020-10-26. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN 50342‑4:2020) has been prepared by CLC/TC 21X “Secondary cells and batteries”.

The following dates are fixed:

This document supersedes EN 50342‑4:2009 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

1 Scope

This document is applicable to lead-acid batteries used for heavy vehicles.

The object of this document is to specify the European requirements of the main dimensions of starter batteries.

For new and future developments of the above applications, it is expected that only batteries from the “Preferred Types” series be used.

Batteries of the series of “Other Types” exist under several national standards. They have been transferred from the previous standard EN 60095‑4.

The preferred types A, B and C are newly introduced and correspond closely to the types D4, D5 and D6 with some differences in tolerances and dimensions.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 General requirements

4.1 Safety labelling

4.2 Marking

4.3 Recycling

4.4 Dimensions and design

4.5 Dimensions of terminals

5 Preferred types

5.1 General

5.2 Main dimensions of types A, B, C and D2

5.3 Handles for manual handling

5.4 Fastening

5.5 Polarity

5.6 Terminal clearance

5.7 Short circuit protection

5.8 Central degassing

5.9 Bulging of battery side walls

6 Other types

6.1 Fastening

6.2 Main dimension for other types

Bibliography

BS EN 50342-4:2020

Lead-acid starter batteries - Dimensions of batteries for heavy vehicles

Current

Published:

30 Nov 2020