scope:

Defines requirements, minimum performances and type tests for low-power generating sets driven by reciprocating internal combustion engines for land and marine use (domestic, recreational and industrial application), excluding generating sets used on aircraft. It concerns mainly low-power generating sets driven by reciprocating internal combustion engines for the generation of single or multiphase alternating current or direct current up to 500 V. The generating sets are standard manufactured sets that can be selected from a commercial catalogue or leaflet. In this part of ISO 8528 "low power" is taken to mean power of a magnitude up to approximately 10 kW.