Australia market entry requirements for power strips and extension cord sockets

Date：2021/5/26　　Clicks：1114

In recent years, as the total amount of domestic products exported to the Australian market has continued to grow, the demand for Australian safety certification of products has also been on the rise, including SAA certification, RCM registration and MEPS registration for electronic products. As a professional third-party CNAS laboratory (L6277), Saida Testing has been committed to continuously improving the testing capabilities of Australian standards in the past five years to meet the needs of the market. Our Australian standard scope covers a variety of products, such as home appliances, lamps, IT/AV, wires and cables, parts (plugs, sockets, converters, connectors, power strips, switches...) and other products. Today we want to introduce you to the most common products in daily life: power strips and extension cord sockets.

The professional name of the power strip is the portable socket device (EPOD). The main test standard in Australia is AS/NZS 3105, and it also refers to other standards such as AS/NZS 3100. The wires matching EPOD must comply with the AS/NZS 3191 standard. The plug must conform to the AS/NZS 3112 standard. EPOD test content mainly includes socket logo, size, wiring length regulations and electrical performance test, including insulation resistance, high voltage resistance, ground connection, net tail test, temperature rise test under normal operation, mechanical strength and overload test, etc. . When doing type experiments , we requre the company to send samples of each model: 12, and provide specific information on insulating materials and live parts at the same time.

Australia's extension cord socket is shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3. The main test standard is AS/NZS 3120, and also refer to AS/NZS 3100 and AS/NZS 3112. The standard mainly summarizes the safety requirements of such products, including terminals and internal connections, contacts, dimensions, grounding connections, insulating materials, appearance, rated parameters, net connection, pull-out force test, roller drop test, Insulation resistance test, temperature rise test, cut current test, etc. Usually when doing a type experiment, we ask the company to send 12, the cycle is 3-4 weeks.

Guangzhou Saida Testing Technology Co., Ltd. was established in April 2006. It is a CNAS accredited laboratory of China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment and an accredited partner of CQC, UL, VDE, TUV, JQA, JECTEC and other well-known institutions. If you have testing and certification requirements, you are welcome to write to us at any time. Our contact information is as follows:


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