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PAT by X-Ray connection?

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My wife owns a house which is let out through a Letting Agent. As such they manage the property and my wife gets the bills.

A few days ago the Letting Agent's contractor carried out a PAT. This for the Fridge, Freezer, Dishwasher and an Electric Fire - these all part of the property.

However her tenant manages a company where they have PATs carried out every day and thus familiar with the process. She spotted that all they did was to ask if any problems and write out the four labels!

He did have a tester with him, from the emailed test sheet a Seaward Apollo 400. But none of the appliances were plugged into the tester - the mains plugs having their respective sockets in cupboards.

So must have been an X-Ray connection……..?

Clive

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    I pay about 80p per appliance for a PAT


    thinking about it now, I cant remember seeing them using the earth lead, so maybe it is just a plug and ping test now. 


    at that price, you really need to be doing a test a minute to turn a profit, but they never seem too hurried. 


    I always get a few fails, genuine ones but what annoyed me once, a tester took it upon himself to check some metal clad fused spurs, one of which had a 13a fuse protecting some metal halide lighting, the load was something like 4.9a so he fitted a 5a fuse, because it wasn't safe with a 13a fuse


    Following morning, the spur had melted and caught on fire. It was wired in 6mm cable 


    I no longer employ his services and only buy MK accessories



    half the appliances need testing far less regularly than 12 months, but that has become the defacto standard, you would like to think it identifies the really dangerous faults...
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    I pay about 80p per appliance for a PAT


    thinking about it now, I cant remember seeing them using the earth lead, so maybe it is just a plug and ping test now. 


    at that price, you really need to be doing a test a minute to turn a profit, but they never seem too hurried. 


    I always get a few fails, genuine ones but what annoyed me once, a tester took it upon himself to check some metal clad fused spurs, one of which had a 13a fuse protecting some metal halide lighting, the load was something like 4.9a so he fitted a 5a fuse, because it wasn't safe with a 13a fuse


    Following morning, the spur had melted and caught on fire. It was wired in 6mm cable 


    I no longer employ his services and only buy MK accessories



    half the appliances need testing far less regularly than 12 months, but that has become the defacto standard, you would like to think it identifies the really dangerous faults...
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