Calibration advice please

[remustered]

Greetings all,

That very very nice man the Marvelous Megger Mark as just furnished me with my very first MFT.

It's the Kewtech KT64 Pro kit advertised on this forum....well pleased with it.

It came with a Calibration cert' and I've reg online with them for warrantee. My query is....cert' lists manufacturer date as 11/04/2011 with a blank line below for commissioning date. does my usable cert run out on 11th April (after 12mths..in 3weeks) or do I put purchase date in commissioned line and run for 12mths before re-cert'ing.

TY

 

[Zeespark]

Phone Mark up and ask mate, He would only be to happy to help in My experience.

AndyGuinness

 

[Cirrus]

I have been waiting for an answer to my pm that I sent him on 7th March! :C

 

[a12jpm]

Think he might be off work. Called him to order a item today and they said he was on holiday.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

you don't have to have it calibrated every year, just keep a record of test results. I'm sure others on here will be able to guide you through the process.

 

[remustered]

Been reading that many books lately...must have got it mixed up. Thought you had to have annual cal cert and keep records of own tests during year...

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Been reading that many books lately...must have got it mixed up. Thought you had to have annual cal cert and keep records of own tests during year...

Its a sort of common sense and risk assessment sort of evaluation......

Consider TWO multifunction meters...

Exhibit (a) is purchased and owned by a sole trader who never lends it out to any other person...

Exhibit (B) is owned by a small firm purchased by the boss and shared between 4 employees as and when each job comes to testing...

Meter (B) is much more likely to be knocked and bashed around and have less care taken of it... than Meter (a)...

The person using meter (a) would probably be able to tell you straight off what the typical resistance of his meter leads are before zero'ing out....

and would notice any strange readings or anomalies with its operation a lot quicker..

AND as they have spent

 

[Andy™]

I think most scheme providers are happy with 2 or 3 years calibration combined with routine checks each month or two months max.

Elecsa are happy with mine being calibrated every 3 years and checked 2-3 weeks (continuity, IR, earth loop high & no trip, RCD test on the same RCD)

 

[m4tty]

+1 ^^^ andy. Mines checked weekly on my homemade checkbox but as my board is not hi-integrtity I've lost my non rcd socket so deciding whether to Henly the tails for a small cu to install one surface non rcd socket just for this or just bite bullet and get it calibrated but there's no way I'm sending my meter in the post no way. My meter stays with me all the time in a padded bag and has never been dropped or bashed. And would NEVER be lent out so don't ask lol

 

[remustered]

Thanks for all the responses guys, info's been really helpful....appreciate it. :Applaud

 

[Jono Pashley]

on new meters normally you would add 12 months to the dat you place it in service to give you the next cal date

 

[SteveT]

The commissioning date is the start point for calibration.

If you keep a regular check most scams allow three year re-cal

I use cal-card, Napit happy, me happy (

 

[ISSWWW]

I have been waiting for an answer to my pm that I sent him on 7th March! :C

Really!!! If I bodged up i'm sorry, do you want to re-send it if it's relivent?

The commisioning box is indeed the start point, however you would be well advised to attach our invoice (a copy of course) on the back of the cal cert.

This is a very common question for us and as far as i am aware all the bodies accept this, we have a bit about this on our Blog