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Thought provoking PAT question!

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One for today and probably longer!


Scene: Workshop with woodworking machinery (stationary equipment & fixed equipment).


Scenario: PAT guy "fails" some equipment for not having a means to stop rotation is less than 10 seconds.


Equipment being saws, pillar drill and a bench grinder.


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BOD


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    Fig 1, page 14 of CoP "in-service I + T of electrical equipment" has a handy [ or other wise, depending on your point of view]  pictorial diagram of examples of equipment covered by the standard.


    It shows a pillar drill, grinder, compressor and an air con unit, for example.


    For sure the PAT person [ or EET person surely? ] has gone beyond the mission of the CoP. But client and contractor demarcation lines between Fixed Wiring , Electrical Equipment and Machinery Regs are, at best, blurred and open to differing miss-interpretations. Much equipment does end up in a black hole of nothing happening at all. Client wants a one size fits all, that has led to an unusual "PAT" approach of annual on everything or an annual approach on somethings, with the rest being missed.
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    Fig 1, page 14 of CoP "in-service I + T of electrical equipment" has a handy [ or other wise, depending on your point of view]  pictorial diagram of examples of equipment covered by the standard.


    It shows a pillar drill, grinder, compressor and an air con unit, for example.


    For sure the PAT person [ or EET person surely? ] has gone beyond the mission of the CoP. But client and contractor demarcation lines between Fixed Wiring , Electrical Equipment and Machinery Regs are, at best, blurred and open to differing miss-interpretations. Much equipment does end up in a black hole of nothing happening at all. Client wants a one size fits all, that has led to an unusual "PAT" approach of annual on everything or an annual approach on somethings, with the rest being missed.
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