What is BS EN IEC 60704-1 about?
The part 1 of IEC 60704 applies to electric appliances (including their accessories or components) for household and similar use, supplied from mains or from batteries. BS EN IEC 60704-1 is concerned with objective methods of engineering accuracy grade 2 in accordance with ISO 12001:1996 for determining sound power levels LW , expressed in decibels (dB), with reference to a sound power of one picowatt (1 pW), of airborne acoustical noise within the specified frequency range of interest (generally including the octave-bands with centre frequencies from 125 Hz to 8 000 Hz), and for prescribed operating conditions of the appliance to be measured .
Note 1: This document does not apply to
Appliances, equipment, or machines designed exclusively for industrial or professional purposes
Appliances that are integrated parts of a building or its installations, such as equipment for air conditioning, heating and ventilating (except household fans, cooke...