ICEL 1010 Battery Registration Scheme

Introduction of a new quality scheme for battery usage in emergency lighting installations has been given a resounding welcome by leading self testing company P4 Limited.

The introduction of a new quality scheme for battery usage in emergency lighting installations has been given a resounding welcome by leading self testing company P4 Limited.

The company's Technical Director, Rob Warner, could hardly contain his pleasure at the forthcoming launch of the ICEL 1010 Battery Registration Scheme, based on IEC 61951-1 and 2 for Ni-Cd and NiMH cells.

"My colleagues and I have been crying wolf for a number of years about the all too common incidence of lower cost and sub standard - and in some cases faulty - batteries that have been allowed to be specified for a product that should be designed to save lives," he says.

He adds: "Such is our uncompromising belief in ultimate safety, that P4's response over the past 10 years has been to use a nickel cadmium battery in the luminaires that operate our FASTEL (fully automatic self -testing emergency lighting) systems, with a 6-year guarantee".

Following compliance with the extension to the testing as required by ICEL 1010, purchasers of batteries registered and complying with this scheme are assured that they will provide the rated duration at the end of a 4-year life.

"ICEL, in which we are an active member, is doing a valuable job in alerting specifiers and users of the importance of the battery within the overall scheme, and the danger of choosing non ICEL approved luminaires and conversions, " asserts Rob Warner.

P4 claims however that its 6-year battery guarantee is the best possible protection and satisfies any risk assessment or regulatory need without any impact on cost.

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