On 14/02/13 20:09, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 14/02/13 14:22, Mark Rogers wrote:
PAT testing only needs to be done by a competent person and the test kit is pretty inexpensive, so I would imagine that there are plenty of charities that will take things like this. It's a long time since I had any problems.
. While this is true and no specific qualification is required.
In a case that you have applied a pass sticker to something which has been sold at retail and then electrocuted someone or burnt their house down, you'd really want some sort of liability cover and it will be a lot easier to defend your competence with a minimal qualification such as 2377.
I certainly wouldn't want to apply a PAT pass sticker to anything going into a shop without these things.
Quite so. I bought a slow cooker from a charity shop, and when I plugged it in there was a BANG! and a substantial blue flash.
On inspection, the earth, live and return connections were all uninsulated, and within a couple of millimetres of the chassis. Just carrying it home in its box probably moved its innards sufficiently for the live terminal to touch, or be within arcing distance of the earthed part.
Just putting a meter on the thing might have shown it to be quite safe. It's the value of 'quite' which was the point.
And finding an official department to blacklist the item on importation (looked *very* new to me) met with no success.