The new European energy efficiency standards for incoming LED certification stampeded into chaos

Since September 1st, all access to the EU market, LED lighting products must comply with the EU's new energy efficiency standards, in order to add CE tags. The implementation of the new directive, not only brought about the rise in the cost of materials for LED lighting products, but also the detection of certification rules have changed.

Faced with the new requirements of the instruction, how to efficiently and effectively through the relevant testing and certification? Many LED companies showed a lot of confusion, but also confused the industry is one of the many well-known domestic and international testing and certification bodies of ErP directive new understanding and testing methods are also different, considerable confusion, chaos, LED products I do not know how to choose the export enterprises.

Understanding chaos: "accelerated aging" and "super accelerated aging"

According to the European Union, "LED lighting products, the latest energy efficiency regulations", lamps and lamps CE Mark requirements on the basis of the LVD directive and EMC directive, the new ErP (EU) No 1194/2012 directive and energy efficiency label (EU) No 874/2012. Among them, No 1194/2012 (EU) the main specifications of the energy efficiency requirements, after 6000 hours survival rate and flux of light bulb 1000 hours to maintain the rate, early failure rate, more than 10 thousand times the number of switch test, lamp start time, preheating time, color, light etc.. You can see from the new rules, the ErP instruction has clearly defined the aging time, but currently on the market a lot of testing and certification bodies, including the international well-known institutions, in order to seize the market, the European market supervision is weak, the punishment is loose and void, to export to LED customers to introduce the so-called "aging" and "super speed. Aging testing and certification services, all kinds of tricks and deception, so in the European market for domestic LED enterprises planted a major culprit.

Test chaos: the so-called low color temperature cover high color temperature

At present, in the process of ErP new energy efficiency test, there are different testing methods for the product coverage. Mainly for the following two aspects:

1 pairs of high color temperature with low color temperature under the same power

Meet the different color temperature testing products, individual institutions only test the low color temperature and high color temperature products, products are only for the initial value of photo electricity test, other key parameters with low color temperature of product data coverage, and on the basis of the batch data test report; and other international well-known institutions is also claimed to resolutely not. Even despise it, but under market pressure, agreed by the customer or will be tested according to the requirements of the premise of practice.

2 only the replacement of the lamp products are tested for each product

Meet the lampshade materials and optical design of different products, for example, with the 18W lamp 3 color, 2 kinds of mask, only the lowest temperature of the individual body scrub mask aging test, other products do photochromic initial value test, others have claimed to each product to be tested.

Price chaos: different institutions, 5 times the gap!

LED chaos, in fact, the price is to blame. Not only the price of the product is too chaotic, and even the price is also a wide range of detection and certification fees, the gap is large, up to 5 times the huge!

From the in-depth understanding of the detection of the situation, the current market price of the mainstream test there are two.

The first is 8000-10000 yuan range, all tests in the professional authority of the testing and certification bodies do, testing agencies to provide one-stop service.

The second is 2000-6000 yuan, part of the test and even all tests are stored in the LED product manufacturing enterprises, testing and certification bodies so-called witness test, or simply provide approval LED product manufacturing enterprise data directly, according to the data report stamp. Although this behavior is irresponsible, and the consequences will be grievous, but then a lot of LED products manufacturers are keen on this, after all, the price is cheap, the products go out again, without regard to the post loss there; testing and certification bodies quite willing to cooperate with customers, after all, save worry and effort, build a chapter to earn a ticket he completely ignored, and the three party agencies and public trust of moral justice.

The bottom line price continues to fall and trickery or deception emerge in an endless stream, under the supervision of the relatively strict North American market has staged a tragedy, but a lot of enterprises and institutions still have no experience as a teacher, walking on the edge of the New Adventures of ErP, will be re staged behind human tragedy.