Household audio and video equipment -- products and standards

This category covers radio receiving, recording and reproducing appliances and accessories intended for household use.

• Audio frequency equalizers, mixers, noise reduction units and power amplifiers
• Compact disc player/recorders, DVD player/recorders, phonographs, radio-clocks, radio-phonographs, radio receivers and radio-tape players
• Powered loudspeakers
• Record players, tape recorders, tape erasers and tape players
• Television receivers including direct view, rear projection, flat panel plasma and LCD technologies
• Satellite receivers
• Transceivers, tuners, tuner-amplifiers, antenna amplifiers and similar equipment intended solely for use with radio receiving appliances

• UL 60065, Audio, Video and Similar Electronic Apparatus is the basic standard used to test products in this category
• UL 6500, Audio/Video and Musical Instrument Apparatus
• UL 1492, Audio-Video Products and Accessories

Additional tips

• On January 1, 2010, UL 60065 will be the only audio video standard available for household use equipment.
• On January 1, 2010, UL 6500 and UL 1492 will be withdrawn.
• A comparison of the requirements in UL 6500 to the requirements in UL 1492 has been developed. For this detailed comparison, please refer to our UL 6500 Comparison page.
• Certain constructions require a hexamethylene-tetramine (C6H12N4) tablet test. For information concerning the location of a local distributor of this tablet, contact either Vesta Pharmaceuticals at +1-888-55-VESTA (83782) or Regent Textiles Machinery Ltd. at +1-514-333-1415. This tablet has an NDC code of 0002-2535-02 and is tablet number 1588. Other companies may supply this tablet and will be added to this list as they become known.
• Please see our Standards page to find out more about upcoming changes to UL 60065.