Recommended 17Th Edition Tester

[hodge bodge and hacket]

Morning, this is my first post so please be gentle! I'm just getting into the self employed inspection and testing game. Although I've seen this kind of question a number of times I thought I'd start a new topic.

Ok, I'll be testing mainly domestic and commercial properties. I don't see me testing many tt systems, and with most 17th testers I'd be stuffed anyway. I've also used in the past both meggers and flukes and unsurprisingly I don't have any hang ups about either.

A few questions:

Which make and model would people recommend?

Have the software issues megger had a few years back cleared up?

Are there testers you can get add on pat testing kits?

What's the lifespan of the testers?

Many thanks and appreciate any advice

 

[hodge bodge and hacket]

Thanks for that, I got the impression he's the man to know on these things.

 

[Evans Electric]

Welcome to the Forum Bodger , will you not be doing any installations then , just inspection & PATesting  ?  

 

[hodge bodge and hacket]

Certainly plan to be doing installations, but as the tester is one of the most expensive pieces of kit. I'm up for any advice I can get

I've been impressed with both megger and flukes, both really well made and give decent results. I've also had an older megger I was using start giving erratic results though. It was a model a few years old and may not have had any software update. Hence one of the questions in the original post.

 

[NozSpark]

I have a Megger MFT1502 from 2004.... Still works fine....