PAT Tester

[SSE]

Looking to buy a PAT tester. Any reccomendations, not too expensive, user friendly etc as I don't have much experience with them

 

[RWJ]

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[SSE]

It's going to be used fairly regularly! Thanks, I'll check that out.

 

[i=p/u]

would you all say handheld is way to go as can perform upto 1000 tests per charge and do the essiential

 

[SSE]

Come on guys, surely theres some other good recommendations?!

 

[72-van]

Hi Gallagher .. I am a big fan of the modern seaward range .However you need to tell us what type of testing you are aiming at to help us guide you to the an appropriate tester. For instance if you mainly so 110v stuff then i would say the supernova if you were mainly gonna do office and IT equipment then the battery powered primetest range are the doggies dangly bits pt 300 &Pt 350 i would steer clear of the non downloadable range .

So tell us what you aim to test ..

72-van

 

[SSE]

Thanks for your reply 72-van. Over the next few months I know I'm going to be more office & IT equipment but I'm hopeful off picking up other work which would not be office and IT equipment! I'll look up the ones you have suggested though. Cheers.

 

[72-van]

A good allrounder is the seaward europa pac plus machine i have been using them for a while
the only drawback is they dont like doing a huge amount of continous 25a tests as they can heat up a bit.

If you are primarily doing nice office work then the primetest 300 is quick and efficient to use .

FYI i have a europa and a pt 300

both ideal tools for testing one thought though the pt300 & pt350 can do rcd testing.

72-van

 

[BlueToBits]

If you are doing multiple repeat tests on high volumes of the same items of equipment get one with a bar code reader

 

[72-van]

I agree bar code scanner is a must if its anything other than a small amount of tests that need doing it can save a lot of time but careful use of short codes can help as well .

72-van