It seems slightly odd to me that failed equipment would have a sticker. That implies that it is left in place, where it relies upon people checking the sticker before (not) using it. I would have thought it safer to stick it in a bin, to be taken away and either dumped or rectified, as appropriate.
They do, they are earnign a living, theyt love my lap as I get the majoroty of stuff out ready for tehm to check, we have about 3,500 or so items to g o through and at £1.49 per item.....
Same here
by the item, they even check my 24V soldering irons, failing two because th ey could see the 'earth' lead. Antex use mains cable for their 24V iron the y are still double insulated and I don't think seeing the earth lead is a f ailure on 24V, that was 2 years ago they didn;t test them this year, but t hey passed an extention block with the earth wire showing but then again th at was under a desk and all they could see was the plug so I'm guessing the y just put a sticker on it without a visual test, but as the PAT said OK it passed.
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:25:06 +0100, Nightjar It seems slightly odd to me that failed equipment would have a sticker.
"Why's this in the bin?"
It stops people thoughtlessly putting it back out for use.
NT
It needs immediately to have note that it has been tested and failed. It will then be up to the owner to deal with the problem - not the tester.
All our monitors are LCD or TFT. I don;t think there's any damgerous voltag es inside unlike a CRT. So for a computer to be tested :-
the main PC box the power lead
monitor.
12V power supply the lead to it's power supply.so about £7.50 per PC
Yes that is true a few years ago we had 6 or so bench power suplies fail th e erath test, apparenly the new guidlines were more strict so it flagged up high resistnace on the earth of mains leads. So I shortened all the mains leads from a metre to about 30cm and they all passed. Also we abide by the WEEE regs so failed items can;t be binned, they have t o be recorded and sent for re-cycling. Also binning failed items might me t hen end up back into ciruclation.
That would be better dealt with by having a tie-on label, listing the faults. IMO it should still be removed from the immediate place of use.
Not put in the bin, but in a bin, i.e. a container reserved for rejected items.
Where I work, when the 3rd party PAT testing company cannot find the serial number in the data base they put on a A5 size red sticker saying the equipment is dangerous. The engineers then just remove the stickers, throw them in the bin and carry on as normal.
whisky-dave put finger to keyboard:
A proper test on extension blocks involves taking the shroud off and checking the tightness of the connections, condition of the wiring and the cord grip. Anyone who just plugs it into a PAT tester is not doing the job correctly.
Indeed; the visual check is the more important part of the test.
Parliment ;-)
charles put finger to keyboard:
I found extension blocks and desk fans to be the two kinds of equipment that failed PAT testing the most. Almost all of the failures were picked up by the visual inspection. Although most weren't immediately dangerous I did find some desk fans where the plastic motor casing was so brittle it could break up if tapped hard; mains voltage terminals were then exposed.
Except for the inverter used for the fluorescent tube backlight
Which is powered by a 12V 'brick' which would obviously need to be tested.
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