MEPS
E3 Program
WELS
Vipac provides fully independent qualification testing of household appliances. This includes clothes dryers, clothes washers, dishwashers, electric & gas water heaters, and household refrigerators & freezers. The company’s scope extends to the regulatory testing of air conditioning, heat pump water heaters, hot water storage tanks, and swimming pool equipment (pumps, skimmers, gas heaters). These are all conducted under MEPS, E3 Program energy labelling, and GEMS frameworks.
Specifying Vipac for its performance testing services comes with numerous advantages, such as:
- Qualified engineers with over 50 years of cumulative experience. The company is also a member of the Consumer Electronics Suppliers Association (CESA).
- Vipac offers environmental testing chambers with wide temperature and humidity ranges. Chamber temperatures range from 9.5 to 43.5°C; Relative humidity from 20 to 85%.
- Multidisciplinary, Vipac’s MEPS, E3 Program, and WELS testing & labelling can be applied to HVAC systems
and electrical goods . - The company can be engaged to assist with product research & development of which may be eligible for the Australian Government’s tax incentive.
Vipac provides fast (three to four week) turnarounds and invites manufacturers to its Melbourne laboratory for onsite troubleshooting should an issue arise.
Vipac’s
Performance Testing
Services Overview
Services provided
- MEPS Testing & Labelling
- As per the Australian Government’s E3 Program (Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012).
- WELS Scheme Testing & Labelling
- Additional Refrigerator and Freezer Qualification Testing
- Operating temperatures.
- Pull down.
- Projected Annual Energy Consumption (PAEC).
- Registration of Products with the E3 Program and WELS
- Stage 1 Check Testing on Behalf of the DCCEEW
- State 2 Check Testing for Manufacturers and Suppliers
- Water Heater & Pool Equipment Testing
- Electric, gas, solar, and heat pump hot water systems.
- Pressure fatigue, hydrostatic, torque, and enamel tests.
- TRNSYS thermal modelling.
- Pool pumps: energy factor, star rating, PAEC.
- Skimmers, outlets, gas pool heaters to AS/NZS and AS standards.
Notable Procedures
Energy Efficiency Classification
- Clothes dryers; Dishwashers; Washing machines:
- AS/NZS 2442.2;
- AS/NZS 2007.2;
- AS/NZS 2040.2;
- Freezers; Refrigerators:
- AS/NZS 4474
- Water heaters:
- AS/NZS 4692.2
Performance
- Clothes dryers; Dishwashers; Freezers; Refrigerators; Washing machines; Water heaters:
- AS/NZS 2442.1
- AS/NZS 2007.1
- AS/NZS IEC 62552-1
- AS/NZS IEC 62552-3
- AS/NZS 2040.1
- AS 1056.1:1991
- AS 3498
- AS/NZS 4692.1
- NZS 4606.1
- AS/NZS 60335.2.21
- AS/NZS 62301
Testing to other International Standards can be conducted on request.
NATA Accreditation
Accreditation No. 676
Site No.(s): 21177, 1499 (15858, and 669)
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