PAT testing domestic equipment

[TicklyT]

My stepson wants to take a DVD player with him for a couple of days away. However, I have just been told that any electrical items he takes need to be PAT tested..... By Thursday morning! Typical teenager!

Any ideas where I can get this done quickly?

The local electrical shop can do it, but need a 1 week turn around, as it isn't done 'in house'

 

[Tim 77]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/500-KEWTECH-E...ryZ25348QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

 

[Tim 77]

http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/business-listings.asp?strCompanyName=simply PAT

 

[Tim 77]

http://www.t2technical.co.uk/local_pages/pat_testing_basingstoke.htm

 

[Adam_151]

Yes, just do a visual check and slap a sticker on, its the only part of the test thats really applicable to a class 2 dvd player.

A lot of people would claim that its really rather all pointless and a bit of common sense on the part of the user would be better*, at least for equipment of this type.

* Although I have many times plugged stuff in I'd most certainly have to fail if I was testing it

 

[Spark123]

Will it run on batteries?

 

[Steve]

schools often do in house PAT testing. worth a shot?

 

[plugwash]

Yes, just do a visual check and slap a sticker on, its the only part of the test thats really applicable to a class 2 dvd player.

In my experiance DVD players are usually metal cased, I'd think an IR test would be in order to check that the class 2 insulation was really doing its job.

 

[FatGit]

I remember once a spark came to my room at uni to test the electric heaters (dimplex fires).
He just looked at at it and stuck a sticker on it. No PAT test. I asked him if he was going to do one. He said that he has a machine but wouldn't bother. What was the point? The handyman could have done all the testing that guy did.

 

[Spark123]

The point is that if someone is being paid to PAT test and purposely doesn't do it properly then it is fraud.

 

[ricicle]

In my experiance DVD players are usually metal cased, I'd think an IR test would be in order to check that the class 2 insulation was really doing its job.

I would not want to be IR testing a DVD player

 

[Spark123]

Some PAT testers will do a leakage test when doing the operation test, the AVO PAT4/DV does this providing you remember to connect the bond lead to the metal case of the class 2 appliance before the operation test.