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My socket tester
has a kettle type lead to plug it in, and does show the ½ and full for a range of RCD's and the trip time, and to be blunt, without a cheap meter like shown your chance of measuring 40 mS is slim. As to a ramp test near impossible. Christmas present think cost around £70.
Blank forms are here this
is the bit which will likely cause a problem, I found back in 1990 when I first started to work with RCD's just the strain the cable put on the casing was enough to stop some RCD's working, so testing them after they were fitted was important. As to the test button, pressing the test button on a MK 10 mA RCD socket would trip the workshops 100 mA RCD, so clearly the test button was next to useless.
I don't care if you break the law, but I do care if you put others in danger. You should also have a meter like this
to test insulation resistance, if you have tested, then the chance of something going wrong and you ending up in court for not registering the work is slim, but if you do neither, then you are asking to get caught, we can all make mistakes, I remember having 6 boxes of sockets to fit, 5 boxes line was one side, 6th the line and neutral swapped over, I missed seeing the change, but after with the tester realised my error and corrected, so easy to make an error like that.
And yes you can guess the results for the test certificate, but who are you kidding, in the main, if some thing does go wrong, if you show the minor works certificate the HSE will assume you did test, and the fault happened after, but they are not idiots, and will soon pick up on a test result which was guessed.
I have as said pulled out the certificates issued when my solar panels were fitted, so I could compare their RCD test figures with my new tester to see how they compared, and there was simply no entry as to RCD tripping current or time.
As to a reference between the installation certificate and the compliance certificate, again nothing, personally I would be careful to have a reference between the two, as don't what people adding to a certificate issued by me, but the solar panels had a type written name in the signature slot.
has a kettle type lead to plug it in, and does show the ½ and full for a range of RCD's and the trip time, and to be blunt, without a cheap meter like shown your chance of measuring 40 mS is slim. As to a ramp test near impossible. Christmas present think cost around £70.Blank forms are here this
is the bit which will likely cause a problem, I found back in 1990 when I first started to work with RCD's just the strain the cable put on the casing was enough to stop some RCD's working, so testing them after they were fitted was important. As to the test button, pressing the test button on a MK 10 mA RCD socket would trip the workshops 100 mA RCD, so clearly the test button was next to useless.
I don't care if you break the law, but I do care if you put others in danger. You should also have a meter like this
to test insulation resistance, if you have tested, then the chance of something going wrong and you ending up in court for not registering the work is slim, but if you do neither, then you are asking to get caught, we can all make mistakes, I remember having 6 boxes of sockets to fit, 5 boxes line was one side, 6th the line and neutral swapped over, I missed seeing the change, but after with the tester realised my error and corrected, so easy to make an error like that.And yes you can guess the results for the test certificate, but who are you kidding, in the main, if some thing does go wrong, if you show the minor works certificate the HSE will assume you did test, and the fault happened after, but they are not idiots, and will soon pick up on a test result which was guessed.
One has to show there was no circuit in the past, and in the main so called spare ways, have some time in the past been used for something else, so have been part of a circuit before, so you would need the installation certificate which shows there was no circuit in that slot.
I have as said pulled out the certificates issued when my solar panels were fitted, so I could compare their RCD test figures with my new tester to see how they compared, and there was simply no entry as to RCD tripping current or time.
As to a reference between the installation certificate and the compliance certificate, again nothing, personally I would be careful to have a reference between the two, as don't what people adding to a certificate issued by me, but the solar panels had a type written name in the signature slot.