How can you PAT test that?

[michaelf]

After seeing the attached example in the motor vehicle teaching area on one of our campuses I'm given to wonder; what is the strangest object you've seen PAT tested. Bonus points for photos of the sticker in place!

[MatthewL]

The strangest thing I have seen PAT tested is a USB KVM switch that was just sat on my desk and doesn't have any connections to power! I recently used it out on site so will try and get a picture when I can. I think it had 2 stickers attached to it!

[maniac]

Is that a cut away Austin A series engine by any chance?

 

Don't think I can beat that really.

[michael2k6]

I thought it was an A series but there are a few subtle differences to what i'm used to seeing. But i'm more used to A+, so maybe it is. It's going to bug me though, can someone answer that? lol a little off topic but please?

And yeh i can't beat that either.

[synaesthesia]

One of the reception classes in a school has a successfully PAT tested PC in the corner.

 

Nowt straight about that, but there is no PC, just a keyboard, mouse and hollowed out monitor. Sticker on the monitor. Not sure if it was meant as a joke but when people pay per item, I had to ask

[plexer]

I don't think it's an A series either.

 

Having said that can you call that a PAT sticker, it's an electrical safety sticker on the starter motor?

 

Ben

[michaelf]

I don't know exactly what engine that is, I've never been too knowledgeable about cars, as long as it goes I'm happy.

 

I'm also reminded of a time when I saw a Y cable that had been PAT tested on both ends of the cable.

[hil]

We PAT test both ends of the Y cables.

[plexer]

Y cables need to be tested at both end plugs surely that means 2 tests which I presume would mean 2 stickers?

 

Ben

[hil]

Y cables need to be tested at both end plugs surely that means 2 tests which I presume would mean 2 stickers?

 

Ben

 

Yeah that is why we do that.

[HarryMonkey]

I'm also reminded of a time when I saw a Y cable that had been PAT tested on both ends of the cable.

 

And so you should, it is, to all intents and purposes, 2 cables.

[nicholab]

Tesla Coil and control system!!! It was home built by one of the physics teachers!! It has a key start.

[michaelf]

I stand corrected then, I didn't realise that was the case. Just goes to show you learn something every day.

[Batman]

Subwoofers and loudspeakers. They both have an external power amplifier. That's the worst I saw!

[andyrite]

And so you should, it is, to all intents and purposes, 2 cables.

 

Just sounds like you are making work for yourselves. Test both ends of the cable and record the worst reading.

 

How can it be 2 devices when it is one physical item?

[SteveBentley]

We had some plonker test a Y power cable with one end still plugged into a PC.

[capncrunch]

I thought it was an A series but there are a few subtle differences to what i'm used to seeing. But i'm more used to A+, so maybe it is. It's going to bug me though, can someone answer that? lol a little off topic but please?

And yeh i can't beat that either.

 

I reckon it is an A Series as well, i can't make out if that is the gearbox under the block or not. Or if not then it has to a B Series.