DKE German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE
DIN EN 60335-2-77
; VDE 0700-77:2011-09
Safety of household and similar appliances - Part 2-77: Particular requirements for pedestrian-controlled walk-behind electrically powered lawn mowers (IEC 60335-2-77:2002, modified); German version EN 60335-2-77:2010
Sicherheit elektrischer Geräte für den Hausgebrauch und ähnliche Zwecke - Teil 2-77: Besondere Anforderungen für handgeführte elektrisch betriebene Rasenmäher (IEC 60335-2-77:2002, modifiziert); Deutsche Fassung EN 60335-2-77:2010
Overview
This European Standard specifies safety requirements and their verification for the design and construction of pedestrian controlled walk-behind electrically powered lawnmowers. This standard shall be applied in conjunction with EN 60335-1. This standard does not apply to - lawn trimmers, lawn edge trimmers, lawn edgers, flail mowers, scrub cutters, automatic (robot) lawn mowers, sickle-bar mowers, agricultural mowers, trailing seat/sulky units, ride-on machines or nonpowered lawnmowers - rotary lawnmowers for which the cutting means is a generally circular central drive unit on which is mounted, either one or more non-metallic filaments or one or more non-metallic, pivotally mounted cutting elements. These cutting elements rely on centrifugal force to achieve cutting, with the kinetic energy of a single cutting element not exceeding 10 J - battery powered lawnmowers with a rated voltage of the battery more than 42 V d.c. Requirements for battery chargers, including those incorporated into the machine are dealt with in EN 60335-2-29. This standard is not applicable to appliances which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CENELEC. The responsible Subcommittee is UK 514.3 "Garten- und Rasenpflegegeräte" ("Garden and lawn equipment") of the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies) at DIN and VDE.
