Today it became known that on July 11, the Russian Government quietly adopted a resolution canceling previous resolutions with technical requirements for lamps and lighting fixtures.
At the end of 2017, I wrote about Resolution No. 1356 - The government banned bad light bulbs.
That decree had very important requirements for lighting products:
The general color rendering index is at least 80 for public areas and at least 70 for industrial areas.
Ripple factor - no more than 5%.
Alas, the decision contained many absurdities and unrealizable requirements.
For example, according to regulation 1356, lamps with a nominal power of 5-25 W must have a power factor of more than 0.7 (almost all household bulbs have a power factor of about 0.5 and if you make drivers with PF> 0.7 it will be either very expensive or light with pulsation). For lamps with a rated power of more than 25W, the PF had to be greater than 0.9. This gave rise to the same mass of floodlights with 100% pulsation.
And also the decrease in the luminous flux of lamps with LEDs during the stabilization of the luminous flux should be no more than 6 percent (in reality, this figure is much higher and it is difficult to fight it).
The decree contained requirements for the starting current of lamps and lamps, but no one knew how to measure it and there were no devices for this.
New Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 11, 2020 No. № 1036 “On the recognition as invalid of regulatory legal acts and certain provisions of regulatory legal acts of the Government of the Russian Federation, on the abolition of regulatory legal acts of federal executive bodies containing mandatory requirements, compliance which is assessed when carrying out control measures in the implementation of federal state supervision in the field of protection of rights consumers”Was accepted so quietly that it is not even on the government's website to this day.
Among many other documents, in paragraph 55 of this resolution cancels the effect of Resolution N 1356 "On approval of requirements for lighting devices and electric lamps used in alternating current circuits for lighting purposes", and in clause 59 cancels"Resolution N 1312 "On amendments to the requirements for lighting devices and electric lamps used in alternating current circuits for lighting purposes". But it does not cancel them immediately, but from January 1, 2021.
It remains to be hoped that by January 1, a new decree will be developed and issued, regulating the technical parameters of lighting, but, this time, it will be done wisely.
© 2020, Alexey Nadezhin
The main topic of my blog is technology in human life. I write reviews, share experiences, talk about all sorts of interesting things. My second project - lamptest.ru. I test LED bulbs and help figure out which ones are good and which are not so good.