Preface
This is the harmonized CSA Group and ULSE standard For Electric Motor-Operated Hand-Held Tools, Transportable Tools And Lawn And Garden Machinery – Safety – Part 3-10: Particular Requirements for Transportable Cut-Off Machines. It is the First edition of CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 62841-3-10 and the First edition of UL 62841-3-10. This harmonized Standard has been jointly revised on August 25, 2023. For this purpose, CSA Group and ULSE are issuing revision pages dated August 25, 2023.
This harmonized standard is based on IEC Publication 62841-3-10: First edition Standard For Electric Motor-Operated Hand-Held Tools, Transportable Tools And Lawn And Garden Machinery – Safety – Part 3-10: Particular Requirements for Transportable Cut-Off Machines, issued September 2015, as revised by Amendment No. 1 issued May 2022. IEC publication 62841-3-10 is copyrighted by the IEC.
This harmonized standard was prepared by CSA Group and ULSE. The efforts and support of the International Harmonization Committee (IHC) for the adoption of the IEC series of standards for Hand- Held, Motor-Operated, and Transportable Tools and Lawn and Garden Machinery UL are gratefully acknowledged.
This standard is considered suitable for use for conformity assessment within the stated scope of the standard.
This standard was reviewed by the CSA Subcommittee on Safety of Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools, under the jurisdiction of the CSA Technical Committee on Consumer and Commercial Products and the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Requirements for Electrical Safety, and has been formally approved by the CSA Technical Committee. This Standard has been developed in compliance with the Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group.
Scope
This clause of Part 1 is applicable, except as follows:
Addition:
This part of IEC 62841 applies to transportable cut-off machines intended to cut materials such as metals, concrete and masonry and to be fitted with one abrasive
- bonded reinforced wheel of Type 41, or
– diamond cut-off wheel with the peripheral gaps, if any, not exceeding 10 mm
and with
– a rated no-load speed not exceeding a peripheral speed of the wheel of 100 m/s with the maximum wheel diameter and
– a wheel diameter range of 250 mm to 410 mm.
This standard does not apply to:
– transportable mitre saws;
– transportable tile saws;
– transportable metal saws.
NOTE 101 Transportable mitre saws are covered by IEC 62841-3-9. Transportable tile saws will be covered by a future part of IEC 62841-3. Transportable metal saws will be covered by a future part of IEC 62841-3.