DEFINITIONS

Gastight
Structures so constructed that gas or air cannot enter or leave the structure except
through vents or piping provided for the purpose.

General lighting
All lighting, other than the emergency lighting, permanently installed in parts of the
premises to which persons have access.

Guide rails (of a lift)

Rigid vertical guides whose inclination to the vertical is not more than 15 o , providing
guide for the car or the counterweight, if there is one.

(H)

Hand-held equipment
Portable equipment intended to be held in the hand during normal use, in which the
motor, if any, forms an integral part of the equipment.

Hazardous area (location)

Area (location) in which an explosive gas atmosphere is present, or may be expected to
be present, in quantities such as to require special precautions for the construction,
installation and use of apparatus.

Hazardous-live-part
Live part, which under certain conditions, can give a harmful electric shock. In case of
high voltage, a hazardous voltage may be present on the surface of solid insulation. In
such a case, the surface is considered a hazardous-live-part.

High leakage current

Earth leakage current exceeding the limit specified in and measured in accordance with
SASO … for equipment connected via a plug and socket complying with SASO … or
similar.

High-rise building
A structure exceeding 23 m in height.

(I)

Impulse charge (Q impulse )

The time integral of the lightning current for the impulse part of the lightning flash
duration.

Increased safety “e” (of hazardous location)

Type of protection applied to electrical apparatus in which additional measures are
applied so as to give increased security against the possibility of excessive
temperatures and of the occurrence of arcs and sparks in normal service or under
specified abnormal conditions.

Indirect contact
Dangerous contact of persons, livestock, or objects with exposed conductive parts or
extraneous conductive parts, which have become live because of a fault.

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 DEFINITIONS

Initial starting current I A

Highest r.m.s. value of current absorbed by an a.c. motor at rest when supplied at the
rated voltage and frequency.

Input circuit
That part of the device or installation between the point at which electrical energy is
supplied to an installation and the input terminals of the transformer, converter or
inverter.
NOTE Also known as a 'mains supply circuit'.

Inspection
Inspection is performed by samples. It may be unexpected and may occur during the
electrical work or at the end of the work.

Inspection Body
A Electrical Requirements accredited body approved to make the verification as per
the Electrical Requirements and entitled to endorse a test report.

Installer
Person, qualified in sign installation practice, who takes responsibility for the
installation and its testing in accordance with this standard.

Insulation
Non-conducting material enclosing surrounding, or supporting a live part.

Insulating sleeve
Insulation designed to be placed over the exposed high-voltage connections at tube
electrodes or over cable-end insulators.

Intermediate part
An inaccessible conductive part, which is not live in normal operation.

Intrinsically safe circuit (of hazardous location)

Circuit in which all the apparatus is either intrinsically safe apparatus or simple
apparatus.

Intrinsically safe electrical system

Assembly of interconnected items of electrical apparatus, described in a descriptive
system document, in which the circuits or parts of circuits intended to be used in an
explosive atmosphere are intrinsically safe.

Intrinsically safe sub-circuit

Part of an intrinsically safe circuit, which is galvanically isolated from another part or
other parts of the same intrinsically safe circuit.

Intrinsically safe equipment (apparatus)

Electrical equipment apparatus in which all the circuits are intrinsically safe.

Intrinsic safety “i”

Type of protection based upon the restriction of electrical energy within apparatus and
of interconnecting wiring exposed to an explosive atmosphere to a level below that
which can cause ignition by either sparking or heating effects.

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