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I note that there seems to be some increased focus by instrument manufacturers to facilitate the testing of the 6mA DC detection element integral in some AC charge points. You can also buy a rather expensive adaptor with testing ports If you don’t want to open the enclosure. One charge point manufacturer requires that you purchase their Bespoke tester before they will provide accreditation for OLEV. It doesn’t seem to do much and doesn’t work on other manufacturers chargers. Anyway, I digress, the question is whether the RDCDD needs site tested and what parameters should be met.
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    This is effectively the question I am asking Andy but directed at the RDC-DD. Graham has already given his view and given his expertise in this area, I have to conclude that no tests are required. However, it is clear that that Megger, Metrel etc are facilitating such tests on their instrument portfolios. I just wondered where they took their lead from. Perhaps it is nothing more than the manufacturer developing a solution to a problem that didn’t ask for one. Did the demand originally come from the EVSE production line test requirements and this is just a carry through to in-service testing? Whatever it is, I feel almost obliged to equip our training centre with these products even though nothing on the  City and Guilds 2919 EV course would require that! Of course, if I do that, the candidates will assume that this test equipment is imperative for their own work thereby perpetuating a myth that these tests are vital.
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    This is effectively the question I am asking Andy but directed at the RDC-DD. Graham has already given his view and given his expertise in this area, I have to conclude that no tests are required. However, it is clear that that Megger, Metrel etc are facilitating such tests on their instrument portfolios. I just wondered where they took their lead from. Perhaps it is nothing more than the manufacturer developing a solution to a problem that didn’t ask for one. Did the demand originally come from the EVSE production line test requirements and this is just a carry through to in-service testing? Whatever it is, I feel almost obliged to equip our training centre with these products even though nothing on the  City and Guilds 2919 EV course would require that! Of course, if I do that, the candidates will assume that this test equipment is imperative for their own work thereby perpetuating a myth that these tests are vital.
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