CEC certification CEC Title 20 Household Electrical Regulations officially released new version CEC-140-2019-002

Certification introduction:

CEC certification is an electrical energy efficiency regulation implemented by the California Energy Commission on December 30, 2005. The purpose of this regulation is to improve the efficiency of electrical products, save energy, and reduce gas emissions and greenhouse effects.

Recently, the California Energy Efficiency Commission updated Title20, Title24 and voluntary certification, as follows:

CEC Title 20

In January 2019, the CEC Title 20 Household Electrical Regulations officially released a new version CEC-140-2019-002. The new regulations emphasize that the definition of general lighting bulbs released by DOE on January 19, 2017 will continue to be used. It also emphasizes that from January 1, 2020, general lighting bulbs with a luminous efficiency below 45lm/w are not allowed in California. Market sales. Since June 13, 2018, the battery charger regulation CEC Title 20 has come into effect.

Website: http: //www.energy.ca.gov/appliances/

On January 1, 2017, CEC added regulations and certification requirements for LED light bulbs in Title20 Section1601-1607, and may consider accepting LED light bulb compliance data from January 1, 2017. On January 1, 2018, CEC released certification templates and guidelines and officially began to accept certification of LED light bulbs. CEC Title 20 Section 1601-1607 The new standard for LED light bulbs can be viewed at the following link:

https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Browse/Home/California/CaliforniaCodeofRegulations?guid=I8F8F3BC0D44E11DEA95CA4428EC25FA0&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=Default&contextData=%28sc.Default%29

CEC Title 20 household appliance product categories:

• Refrigerator, freezer

• Air conditioning, air filters, forced air heating or cooling, water heaters

•Dishwasher, clothes dryer, pool heater, microwave

CEC Title 24

Building lighting energy efficiency regulations are updated every three years. The new building lighting energy efficiency regulations in 2019 are improved on the basis of the 2016 regulations. The current 2019 building lighting energy efficiency regulations are CEC-400-2018-020-CMF, which took effect on January 1, 2020. The new regulation CEC Title24 2022 has been announced, and the specific effective date of the new regulation is January 1, 2023.

Voluntary California Quality LED Lamp Specification CEC-400-2017-015-SF, LED Bulb Voluntary Certification Regulation Version3.1. On December 19, 2017, CEC officially announced the Voluntary Bulb Certification V3.1/CEC-400 - The 2017-015-SF final draft, V3.1 standard specification clarifies that manufacturers can estimate life before completing life testing and completing the first submission of a marketing application. This standard is used by the California Energy Efficiency Commission to guide more high-quality LED bulbs into the California market.

URL: https://www.energy.ca.gov/business_meetings/2017_packets/2017-12-13/Item_01e_VoluntaryLEDSpec/Voluntary%20CA%20Quality%20Spec%20v.3.1.pdf

Certification website link: www.energy.ca.gov

CEC listed product information database MADBES system link: https://cacertappliances.energy.ca.gov/Login.aspx

NRTL refers to Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory, which is the abbreviation of Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory in English. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires products used in the workplace to be tested and certified by a nationally recognized laboratory. Ensure the personal safety of users. In North America, manufacturers must conduct strict testing in accordance with national standards when legally selling products for civilian or industrial use on the market. Products can only be legally sold on the market if they pass relevant testing by a Nationally Recognized Laboratory (NRTL).

Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) are third-party organizations that certify products for the North American market. NRTL is recognized by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under 29 CFR1910.7 to provide safety testing and certification services for products used in U.S. workplaces. In Canada, only certification bodies accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) can carry out such services.

About Us

Shenzhen LCS Compliance Testing Laboratory Ltd., abbr. for LCS, was founded in 2004 in Shenzhen, LCS is now growing into an independent comprehensive third-party institution which focuses on test & certification. Profound technical background and diligent working attitude decided LCS with an outstanding high starting point from the outset，pioneering spirit and consciousness of keeping pace with the times which predestined the thoroughly tempered course of LCS.

Our Labs

LCS Founding Members have engineering background and had gradually built up Safety Lab, EMC Lab, RF Lab, SAR & HAC Lab, Reliability Lab, Lighting Electrical Lab, LED Lighting Performance Lab, Energy Efficiency Lab, Electronic Cigarette Testing Lab, Chemistry Lab, BQTF, Environmental and Occupational Evaluation Lab, Battery Lab, Toy Lab, Textile Lab, Food and Food Grade Material Lab. The establishment of our comprehensive labs ensure our test and certification scope covers almost all fields, such as Reliability and Safety test, EMC test, Chemical Hazardous Substances test, Material Analysis, Food Contact Material test, Bluetooth Test & Certification, Environment and Occupational Health, Performance test of spare parts of Automobile and so on.

Authorization

Moreover, LCS won many authorized qualifications both domestic and overseas. LCS is recognized as IEC/ISO17025 laboratories accepted by CNAS and NVLAP, accredited by CPSC, CMA, accredited for CQC, ISTA, CBTL, SASO, SABS. Meanwhile LCS become laboratory authorized by TUV, BQTF issued by the SIG. LCS had also signed cooperation agreements with FCC, ISED, ETL, CEC, UL, E-Mark, CETECOM, KTC, SAA Approval and many other authoritative institutions, hence we can provide our clients with efficient and professional service for product test and certification.

Experience

Our RF experience ranges from WLAN (802.11b/g/n/a/ac), Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth (802.15.1), ZigBee (802.15.4), Z-Wave, UWB (802.15.3), WiMAX (802.16), SRD, DECT, RFID, NFC, GSM, WCDMA (+HSDPA/HSUPA), LTE, 5G (NR/VoNR/eMTC/eMBB/URLLC),UHF/VHF, WHDI, AM, FM, DAB, DVB, GPS, GNSS, COMPASS, GLONASS and more. The products we are mostly working with are basestations, client adapters, laptops, cordless phones, baby monitors, cellulars, radars, sensors, scanners, receivers, immobilizers, remote controls, etc. Modern products incorporate not often one, but a variety of co-existing technologies.

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LCS is a reliable party. With more than 20 years hands-on experience in the field of Radio, Telecom, EMC and Safety certification, including country approvals worldwide, we will guide you with our knowledge. You are very welcome!

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