IS 7098 Part 1 : 2025

What this standard covers

The public archive record for this standard (IS 7098 (Part 1) : 1988) has no readable OCR text for its scope clause, so the scope is not quoted here rather than guessed. Use the official BIS link below to check the current edition.

The BIS registry lists the current edition as IS 7098 Part 1 : 2025. The publicly archived copy quoted here is the 1988 edition, so wording and requirements may have changed since. Check the official BIS listing for what is in force.

Requirements and tests, as the standard names them

• 16.10 Flame Retardance Test on Single Cables
• 16.13 Test for Halogen Acid Gas Evolution
• 16.14 Test for Temperature Index
• 16.15 Smoke Density Test

Sub-clause names whose printed names themselves say “Test” in IS 7098 (Part 1) : 1988 (the 1988 archived edition; BIS lists 2025 as current). Values and limits are deliberately not reproduced here — read them in the standard itself.

How the standard is organised

• 3 CONDUCTOR
• 4 INSULATION
• 5 FILLER AND INNER SHEATH
• 6 ARMOURING
• 7 OUTER SHEATH
• 8 CONDLCTOR
• 11 LAYING UP OF CORES
• 12 INNER SHEATH (COMMON COVERING)
• 15 CLASSIFICATION OF TESTS
• 16 DETAIL OF TESTS
• 17 IDENTIFICATION

Test methods it refers to

• IS 10810

Edition history (per the BIS registry)

• IS 7098 Part 1 : 2025 — current edition

Where this standard is used on NirmanDost

Listed by product makers

18 products in the NirmanDost catalogue name this standard on their spec sheets — FINVUL-X 1100 V Grade Single Core, Aluminium Conductor, XLPE Insulated, Unarmoured/Armoured, PVC Type ST-2 Jacketed Cables, FINVUL-X 1100 V Grade Two Core, Aluminium Conductor, XLPE Insulated, Unarmoured/Armoured, PVC Type ST-2 Jacketed Cables, FINVUL-X 1100 V Grade Three Core, Aluminium Conductor, XLPE Insulated, Unarmoured/Armoured, PVC Type ST-2 Jacketed Cables. That is the maker’s own claim, copied as printed; we have not tested these products against the standard, and a spec sheet can cite the wrong code.

Materials market

Also cited in the Materials Market rate library and SKU sheets and the DSR↔brand equivalence map (32 brand matches).