Monday, 17 February 2014

Round 3 pin plugs with no fuses

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The issue of round pin unfused plugs often comes up during PAT Testing courses or as a telephone technical support question. This post give...
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Monday, 3 February 2014

Why a 13 Amp fuse does not seem to blow at 20 Amp

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Last week, an apprentice at work showed me a plug on an extension lead that had overheated and was in a dangerous condition. He said that h...
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Thursday, 10 October 2013

Insert to PAT Testing Handbook - Summary of changes introduced in Edition 4 of the IET Code of Practice

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In November 2012 the IET launched Edition 4 of the “Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment”. This ...
Thursday, 5 September 2013

Fixed Electrical Appliance Testing

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A few weeks ago a customer inquired whether we provide test leads to go with our PAT Testers to test Fixed Appliances. When we asked why he...
Friday, 21 June 2013

Earth Continuity testing - 20 Amps or 200 mAmps

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Following a recent Twitter campaign, we had a training organisation challenging the use of 200 mA for testing Earth Continuity. As it is im...
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Risk based PAT testing - a proposal

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The IET Code of Practice in its Edition 4, recommends adopting a risk based PAT testing. ie decide on the frequency of inspection and test b...
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Friday, 5 April 2013

Electrical Safety in Cuba - Low on the list of priorities?

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The daughter of a colleague at work has just returned from a holiday on Cuba and took these interesting photos. Thought I'd share these...
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