I personally think pat testing as a whole is ridicolous, the only real valid test is continuity of the earth conductor on class 1 equipment. After that its all pratically visual. Unfortunately its one of those cases of we need to replace peoples common sense with procedure! Just in case! Regards Gary
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Cowderoy <t...@cowderoy.co.uk> Sender: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:16:53 To: <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Reply-To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Peterboro] OT- PAT Testing On 03/07/2012 12:58, Iain Harley wrote: > Have a look at the HSE site for guidance on PAT testing as a lot of rubbish > is > put out on this topic by organisations that want to sell their services; > http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm > Thanks for the link Iain. The HSE guidance seems very sensible and debunks a lot of the mythology that has grown up around this topic. I've found two really helpful PDFs there: Maintaining portable and transportable electrical equipment http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg107.htm and Maintaining portable electric equipment in low-risk environments http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg236.htm It's pretty clear from these that a lot of people are going way over the top on PAT testing. It reminds me of the days when I was involved with quality issues on defence products. The amount of BS that people talked about what the standards required was mind boggling. If AQAP-1 had contained everything that people said it did, it would have occupied a shelf 20 feet long. It was actually less than half an inch thick. Tony Cowderoy _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
