Starting cables – battery jumper cables
ALPIN
- Notifying country
- Slovakia
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
The product poses a serious risk of fire because during a simulation of heating overload of the cable by starting with starting impulse (max. 400 A, 15 s) the temperature of the conductor of 392 ºC was detected (permitted value of temperature is 135 ºC), in other case (max 400 A, 30) the temperature of over 400 ºC was registered. After finishing the test, the insulation ignited and the conductors burnt over. The product does not comply with the safety requirements of standard ISO 6722.
Measures taken
- Voluntary withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers. Voluntary measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- A battery jumper cable for connection of positive terminals of accumulator is black, a battery jumper for connection of negative terminals of accumulator is red. The product is marked with names of producer and distributors for Slovakia, Czech Republic and Slovenia, EAN code and Art. number.
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 0046/08 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2008-3
- Published
- 24 January 2008
- Corrigendum
- Corrigendum Notification 0015/08 of week 2 concerning the "Cadillac passenger car" has been removed because according to the Swedish authorities all affected vehicles have been withdrawn from the market and recalled from consumers.
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