PAT, Testing Equipment.
- Thread starter Wicksygas
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IMO the majority of PAT testing is such a waste of time you could make your own tester.
Take on old shoe box and stick a picture of a PAT tester on the top.
Glue a single socket on one side and a 16amp commando on the other.
Trail a few test leads out of the back, buy a few hundred pass stickers and 1 fail sticker and you're in business.
Nobody will be any the wiser.
Take on old shoe box and stick a picture of a PAT tester on the top.
Glue a single socket on one side and a 16amp commando on the other.
Trail a few test leads out of the back, buy a few hundred pass stickers and 1 fail sticker and you're in business.
Nobody will be any the wiser.
according to http://www.pat-testing.info/test.htm (i don't know if this is authoritive but it was one of the first hits on google for pat testing) the required tests are the earth bond test and the insulation resistance test. The latter is easilly performed with your ordinary insulation resistance tester but the former may be harder since it needs to be performed at quite a high current (that site claims )
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A few years ago at work the PAT testers were roaming the building putting stickers on everything. The sticker on our kettle started off about 2" X 1", but ended up about 1" X 1/2" after the kettle boiled 
More worrying was a 'rogues gallery' of scrap mains leads thrown in a box in the corner of a workshop next to the dustbin - flexes pulled out of moulded plugs, bent plug pins, loose fuse holders, damaged flexes etc. etc.
After the PAT monkeys had been through, all but two of these leads had 'pass' stickers on them
The other two hadn't failed, they just hadn't tested them because they didn't have plugs on the end
More worrying was a 'rogues gallery' of scrap mains leads thrown in a box in the corner of a workshop next to the dustbin - flexes pulled out of moulded plugs, bent plug pins, loose fuse holders, damaged flexes etc. etc.
After the PAT monkeys had been through, all but two of these leads had 'pass' stickers on them
The other two hadn't failed, they just hadn't tested them because they didn't have plugs on the end
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