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UL 1492 Document Information:
Title
UL Standard for Safety Audio-Video Products and Accessories
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Publication Date:
Apr 30, 1996
Scope:
These requirements cover audio and video products intended for
use on supply circuits in accordance with the National Electrical
Code, NFPA 70.
These requirements, where applicable, cover:
a) Audio products and accessories intended for household use and
involved with the reproduction or processing of audio signals.
Examples of such products include amateur radio products,
amplifiers, intercommunicating devices, phonographs, radio clocks,
radio-phonographs, radio receivers, record players, tape players,
tape recorders, transceivers, tuners, tuner-amplifiers, and similar
products.
b) Video products that are intended for household or commercial
use, and that receive signals in ways such as off the air, through
a CAT/MATV cable system, from a video-recorded medium, or from
image-producing units. Examples of such products are video tape
recorders; video-receiving, -processing, -recording, -producing,
and -amplification products; television-antenna amplifiers; cable
television (CAT) converters; television tuners; television
receivers and monitors; television cameras; and similar
products.
c) Auxiliary products and accessories intended for use with
audio or video products wherein the auxiliary and accessory
products are separate and do not perform the desired function, but
are used in addition to or as a supplement to products according to
(a) and (b). Examples of such products include character
generators, editing controllers, video switches and encoders, CRT
degaussers, video tape rewinders, head demagnetizers, tape erasers,
and similar products.
d) Video products intended for entertainment purposes in
ordinary locations of health-care facilities.
e) Cellular telephones and similar transceiving devices used on
a vehicle, boat, or the like where the telephone interconnects to
the telephone network through a radio transmitter and receiver.
f) Portable audio or video products of the types described in
(a) – (c) and (e) that are intended for use with a marine or any
other battery circuit as the power supply means.
Battery chargers and power supplies, whether portable or for
permanent installation and not packaged with or specifically
referenced in literature packaged with a product but intended for
use with audio or video products, are categorized as battery
chargers or power supplies and are not covered by these
requirements.
These requirements do not cover products that are covered by the
Standard for Commercial Audio Equipment, UL 813.
Audio or video products intended for use by children are covered
by these requirements, but shall also comply with the applicable
requirements in the Standard for Electric Toys, UL 696.
Video products intended for use at mercantile and banking
premises to provide a means of recording holdup attempts or similar
activities in the area shall also comply with the applicable
requirements in the Standard for Surveillance Camera Units, UL
983.
Circuits in audio or video products intended to connect directly
to a telecommunication network shall comply with the applicable
requirements in the Standard for Telephone Equipment, UL 1459, or
Information Technology Equipment, UL 1950, Third Edition.
A separately enclosed non-powered loudspeaker that is not
intended for connection to a specific audio amplifying source shall
comply with the requirements in the Electronic Industries
Association (EIA) Interim Standard IS-33, Recommended Loudspeaker
Safety Practices – An Industry Guideline, dated May 1987.
Deleted August 16, 2001
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