Department Fans Division, Vikhroli Lab

Issued by Testing Team

Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Limited.
Issued to Design team, Internal Quality team

Standard operating procedure – Heating Test

To streamline the procedure for testing and receiving the samples for sourced products

Purpose: To test Inhouse (R&D) and sourced final samples for to perform the product safety test
against heating.

Scope: To validate the final samples made by Crompton/ vendor.

Responsibility: Fans Design team and Quality team.

Standard: As per IS 374:2019, IS 302-1, IS 302-2-80(Clause 11).

Tolerance on ratings as per standard:

a) Limits of error of electrical Measuring instruments: Ammeter, voltmeter and watt meters used
for tests shall have accuracy of class 0.5 or better.
b) The variation in the voltage shall not exceed ±1%.
c) Power factor- tolerance minimum 0.02, Max 0.07 (requirement >0.9).
d) Fan speed ±10 percent.
e) Power Input +20 percent.
f) Temperature ratings are given in below table 3
g) The temperature rise of the body of the motor is determined instead of the temperature rise of
the windings.
h) The temperature rise of the body of the motor, where it is in contact with insulating material,
shall not exceed the values shown in Table 3 for the relevant insulating material.

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 Department Fans Division, Vikhroli Lab
Issued by Testing Team
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Limited.
Issued to Design team, Internal Quality team

Standard operating procedure – Heating Test

To streamline the procedure for testing and receiving the samples for sourced products

Date SOP Issued Issue No 01

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 Department Fans Division, Vikhroli Lab
Issued by Testing Team
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Limited.
Issued to Design team, Internal Quality team

Standard operating procedure – Heating Test

To streamline the procedure for testing and receiving the samples for sourced products

Date SOP Issued Issue No 01

SOP Revision Date 00 Rev. No 00
Prepared by Vijay Tambatkar Reviewed/Approved by
Date Date:
 Department Fans Division, Vikhroli Lab
Issued by Testing Team
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Limited.
Issued to Design team, Internal Quality team

Standard operating procedure – Heating Test

To streamline the procedure for testing and receiving the samples for sourced products

Test Setup:
 Test Corner Design:
o Dull Black painted plywood 20mm thick is used as test corner as shown below.

 Thermocouple used for determining the temperature rise of the surface of the walls, ceiling
and floor of the test corner are attached to the back of the small, blackened disks of copper or
brass which is 15mm diameter and 1mm thick.
 Temperature rise of the windings are determined by the resistance method. In case of any
difficulty, we can use thermocouple.
 Temperature rises other than windings are determined by means of fine wire thermocouples,
positioned so that they have minimum effect on the temperature of the part under test
 Thermocouple diameter is 0.3mm which is fine wire thermocouple.
 Appliances normally fixed to a ceiling are fixed underneath a horizontal support.
 This test corner is installed inside the enclosed room to get the temperature stability.

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 Department Fans Division, Vikhroli Lab
Issued by Testing Team
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Limited.
Issued to Design team, Internal Quality team

Standard operating procedure – Heating Test

To streamline the procedure for testing and receiving the samples for sourced products

Test procedure as applicable

Step 1:
Attach the thermocouple to measure the temperature rise at places of insulation where failure could
cause.

Step 2:
After mounting ceiling fan, at the beginning of the test, the temperature of all the measurement parts
are maintained at ambient temperature of 27 ±5°C.
After that set the ambient test temperature(t1) 40°C (+3°C tolerance)

Step 3:
Once temperature gets stabilize measure the resistance(R1) of windings (U-V, V-W, U-W) and take
average of it before the test.
Note: Make sure that rotor is steady while measuring the resistance.

Step 4:
Supply input voltage to fan with most unfavorable i.e. 1.06 times the rated voltage.

Step 4:
Duration of test is most unfavorable conditions of normal use i.e 2 Hours.

Step 5:
During test, temperatures of all parts are monitored continuously, and it should not cross the limit
mentioned in table 3.

Step 6:
After completion of the test take windings resistance (U-V, V-W, U-W) and take average of it(R2).
Measure the winding resistance at short interval after mains switching off.
Also note down the ambient temperature(t2) after the test.

Step 6:
Calculate the temperature rise of winding as follows:

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Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical Limited.
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Standard operating procedure – Heating Test

To streamline the procedure for testing and receiving the samples for sourced products

Note:
 Motor Operated at Normal Operation.
 Supplied with most unfavorable voltage between 0.94 times and 1.06 times the rated
voltage.
 Duration of test is most unfavorable conditions of normal use.
 The protective device shall not operate during except protective electronic circuits are
allowed to operate provided they are tested for following number of cycle of operations:

Reference Drawing of BLDC Fan Connections.

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