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Thought provoking PAT question!

Former Community Member
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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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Regards


BOD


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  • Former Community Member
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    When teaching, I'd encourage attendees to bring it their PAT testing kit and get them to do a test on two items I brought in. One being a kettle that to get an earth on it, the lead had to be clipped to the heavily limescaled element which stretched a few.

    But favourite, was my sneaky one, that was a fan heater with 1 and 2 kW settings that had a one element winding snapped and hanging loose but not in contact with the casing. Happily passed the insulation test (if the candidate did test both heat settings) but failed the functional test.


    Regards


    BOD
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    When teaching, I'd encourage attendees to bring it their PAT testing kit and get them to do a test on two items I brought in. One being a kettle that to get an earth on it, the lead had to be clipped to the heavily limescaled element which stretched a few.

    But favourite, was my sneaky one, that was a fan heater with 1 and 2 kW settings that had a one element winding snapped and hanging loose but not in contact with the casing. Happily passed the insulation test (if the candidate did test both heat settings) but failed the functional test.


    Regards


    BOD
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