On 21/03/2013 16:22, A.Lee wrote:
Nightjar wrote:

On 21/03/2013 07:05, A.Lee wrote:
Nightjar wrote:

On 20/03/2013 20:30, A.Lee wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:42:34 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

There is no mains connection. Do these items need PAT testing?

PAT only applies to mains kit, no mains nothing to test. ...

I don't think that is true. How about an emergency lighting system fed
by a bank of batteries at 230v?

Doesn't sound very portable to me.

In-service Inspection and testing has nothing to do with just 'portable'
equipment.
Electric showers, hand dryers, HV equipment are all covered.

Portable Appliance Testing, which the question was about, does though.

As already stated, the term PAT was brought in by one of the instrument
makers, the regime for doing the Inspection and testing is called the
'In-service Inspection and testing of electrical equipment'.

And it covers all electrical equipment whether plugged in or permanently
fixed.

That may be what it has evolved into over the years, but when the
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 came out, there was a quite clear
distinction made between the established inspection of installed
equipment and what was seen as a new requirement to extend that to
portable appliances, to the extent that a Factory Inspector informed me
that I should have a PAT sticker on a 2 ton lathe, because it was
connected to the 3 phase supply by a plug and socket, which made it
portable.

Colin Bignell