Update: ICES-002 — Vehicles, Boats and Other Devices Equipped with Internal Combustion Engines, Traction Batteries or Both

Update: ICES-002 — Vehicles, Boats and Other Devices Equipped with Internal Combustion Engines, Traction Batteries or Both

Download: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf10605.html

• End of the Transition period: September 2022
• Replaces ICES-002, issue 6, Vehicles, Boats and Other Devices Propelled by an Internal Combustion Engine, Electrical Means or Both, published in March 2013 and updated in November 2014 and in February 2017.
• ICES= Interference-Causing Equipment Standards

• Listed below are the changes: (ref above link)

  1. Changed title from Vehicles, Boats and Other Devices Propelled by an Internal Combustion Engine, Electrical Means or Both to Vehicles, Boats and Other Devices Equipped with Internal Combustion Engines, Traction Batteries or Both
  2. Clarified the types of equipment that are in the scope of this standard (section 1)
  3. Clarified that outboard boat engines, if marketed independently, are in scope (section 1.1)
  4. Added requirements for vehicles, boats and devices with wireless power transfer functionality (section 1.2)
  5. Added specific requirements for vehicles/boats/devices that connect to the ac mains, either directly or indirectly (sections 1.4, 4.3 and 4.4)
  6. Added clarifications for multistage manufacturing (section 2.2)
  7. Removed requirements that are specified in ICES-Gen and referred to ICES-Gen for all general requirements (section 3.3)
  8. Clarified that the statistical compliance methods specified in the CAN/CSA-CISPR 12-10 standard cannot be used for demonstrating compliance with ICES-002 (section 4.2)
• References CAN/CSA-CISPR 12-10   The Canadian deviations remove requirements for average detector limits and the Key-On, Engine-Off mode operating conditions from CISPR 12.

Full listing of ICES requirements: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf06127.html

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