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Well when your on site with tester around your neck tools ladders pen and pad I've got no more hands to carry laptop lol besides havnt ever been given lap top with the firms I've worked for
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Hi all,
Before you read anymore I'd like to just say I'm currently a student doing computer science at Aberystwyth. What I want to do for my final year project is develop some software for laptops that you can use when doing your electrical testing so that it can send off templates straight away and mean you don't have to write everything down onto paper and copy it across later.
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I know the rules of this forum are saying I must not be here for commercial purposes - I am not, I am here for educational purposes only.
If people are happy to help me out with talking to me about how you personally go about electrical testing, how you capture the data etc. Please let me know, I'm looking for a few volunteers to say how you do it currently.
I'd also like some input from people on this forum about what issues you have with electrical testing. What doesn't work for you? What's annoying? What could save time etc. I'm well aware that there are software packages out there already such as EasyCert - Does anyone currently use this? If you do and have problems with it or improvements I would be very interested in hearing back from you.
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If you're interested in me contacting you, please leave a message here and I'll get back to you. I am located in Hampshire/Berkshire during the summer holidays but in Wales (Ceredigion) during term time, so it may have to be via phone/email conversation. When I have developed the software to do what I want, I would be willing to give it to the volunteers for free - no charge or catch with this. The only thing I would ask for back is some feedback so you could become my 'user testers' for my final year project.
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If anyone has any objections or questions don't hesitate to post a reply.
Many thanks for your time all
James
Note - Would it be possible to put down an email address or company name/contact info for you so when I write it up in my project it looks professional.
Well when your on site with tester around your neck tools ladders pen and pad I've got no more hands to carry laptop lol besides havnt ever been given lap top with the firms I've worked for
..... I have just decided to do some 'market research' over the summer to find out what I should be aiming for.
Have you actually identified a need for this type of software? Looking at the replies nearly everyone uses pen and paper/smoke packet when on-site even though similar software products are already available.
Having a laptop on site sounds good but a lot of guys work on their own so software like this would be targeted at companies who send 2 guys in to a job hence why the sole trader will go and write down the details then do the docs later
Is there nothing that could be done so the sole trader could use it on their own? I understand that 2 people testing can have one inputting results while the other reads them out - but a sole trader could have a laptop down instead of writing on paper?
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