Inspection and testing to the First Edition

[oracle]

Life was simple back in the day, raising a family and living in a shack. Then they invented electricity and people found life more exciting with a whole new way to die.

Electricity was and is dangerous and in May 1882 the first rules and regulations were made protecting people from shock, fire and death. Prophetically, these were called the First Editon.

They may have been old fashioned but they weren’t stupid, they knew by adding a few pages every couple of years they could change the number and charge more each time.

These first rules weren’t much, inspection involved the condition of “The Generator” and testing was probing circuits with electric currents. So how did they do this?.

Well, continuity was probably done with a bell and battery, nicked from a telephone, and insulation resistance with a hand cranked generator, also nicked from the telephone. After all these rules were for the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.

Live testing was probably by switching on to see if it worked, a practice that has persisted to today. So what do you think, were things really better in the olden days?

 

[static zap]

I want DC to operate my valve radio !
(get a horrible hum in my speaker with AC)

 

[oracle]

I want DC to operate my valve radio !
(get a horrible hum in my speaker with AC)

Sorry mate you're mistaken AC won't be invented until 1886, that's not a hum on your speaker that's an 1882 ring tone!

 

[oracle]

However, across the pond, Americans who love new and exciting technologies, developed the electric chair. This was not to warm your bottom, but to fry it!

 

[Toneyz]

However, across the pond, Americans who love new and exciting technologies, developed the electric chair. This was not to warm your bottom, but to fry it!

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No PAT test sticker.

 

[oracle]

No PAT test sticker.

Back in the 1800's Pat, like Pete, was a name not a job description

 

[Toneyz]

Back in the 1800's Pat, like Pete, was a name not a job description

Come on I don't think he can be passed as that old even in your wildest imagination.

 

[Intoelectrics]

No PAT test sticker.

That's cause its fixed equipment

 

[Pete999]

Oi you 2 lay off will you, as Tel once said age is just a number, after the news I have just had the past few days I feel 21 again.

 

[oracle]

That's cause its fixed equipment

If you look carefully it's made of non conductive materials, any additions are considered excluded from the rules

 

[oracle]

Oi you 2 lay off will you, as Tel once said age is just a number, after the news I have just had the past few days I feel 21 again.

Last time I felt a 21 year old, she slapped me

 

[Pete999]

That's cause its fixed equipment

No it aint it's ISTIEE or ISITEE Never can remember the right way, ISTIEE or whatever is the testing of electrical equipment, be it portable, fixed, Mobile, transportable etc basically power consuming apparatus, even if it's screwed down it still comes under the CoP.

 

[ruston]

No PAT test sticker.

Pat wasn't in it that day , he was the day after.

 

[oracle]

No it aint it's ISTIEE or ISITEE Never can remember the right way, ISTIEE or whatever is the testing of electrical equipment, be it portable, fixed, Mobile, transportable etc basically power consuming apparatus, even if it's screwed down it still comes under the CoP.

Quite right Pete anything connected to a SUPPLY becomes part of the SYSTEM and must be tested.

 

[oracle]

Pat wasn't in it that day , he was the day after.

He was supposed to be in that day. Why did he put it off until the day after?

 

[Pete999]

Pat wasn't in it that day , he was the day after.

Pat, what a Woman!!

 

[Pete999]

Pat wasn't in it that day , he was the day after.

My Pat, what a Woman!!
Anyway how can it be called PAT Testing? Portable Appliance Testing Testing, don't sound right

 

[Silly Sausage]

Quite right Pete anything connected to a SUPPLY becomes part of the SYSTEM and must be tested.

But the electricity is connected to the person who will be sitting in the chair. Will the person require testing to ensure that the whole system isn't hazardous to health?!

 

[oracle]

Pat wasn't in it that day , he was the day after.

He was supposed to be in that day.

Oi you 2 lay off will you, as Tel once said age is just a number, after the news I have just had the past few days I feel 21 again.

Pete it's like throwing breadcrumbs into a fish pond, the fish come up to take the bread and you take the bait, every time

 

[ruston]

@ You are correct , everything is portable at some stage.
Pat , short for Patrick.

 

[Pete999]

If you look carefully it's made of non conductive materials, any additions are considered excluded from the rules

The Irish sparky looking after those chairs, got fired last week, he reported that the chairs were so badly maintained, they were a death trap and could kill someone, boom boom

 

[oracle]

But the electricity is connected to the person who will be sitting in the chair. Will the person require testing to ensure that the whole system isn't hazardous to health?!

Quite right, but only dead tests are taken

 

[oracle]

@ You are correct , everything is portable at some stage.
Pat , short for Patrick.

So is Pete short for Peterick or is he just a bit short?

 

[ruston]

He was supposed to be in that day. Why did he put it off until the day after?

He probably had something on his mind,

 

[Pete999]

So is Pete short for Peterick or is he just a bit short?

Dopey question there Oracalrick, Pat is also short for Patricia, the only one I'm concerned about.
Going off topic a bit Lads, shall we all grow up and act like the sensible people we like to think we are?

 

[oracle]

Dopey question there Oracalrick, Pat is also short for Patricia, the only one I'm concerned about.
Going off topic a bit Lads, shall we all grow up and act like the sensible people we like to think we are?

Only Patricia I know is Patricia the stripper

Patricia the Stripper 2000
Song by Chris de Burgh
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Chris de burgh Patricia the stripper3:28 · YouTube
LYRICS
Dennis is a menace with his "anyone for tennis?"
And beseeching me to come and keep the score
And Maud saya "Oh Lord! I'm so terribly bored!"
I really can't stand it anymore
I'm going out to dinner, with a gorgeous singer
To a little place I've found down by the quay
Her name is Patricia, she calls herself Delicia
And the reason isn't very hard to see
She says God made her a sinner just to keep fat men thinner
As they tumble down in heaps before her feet
They hang around in groups like battle-weary troops
One can often see them queue right down the street
You see Patricia, or Delicia, not only is a singer
She also removes all her clothing
For Patricia is the best stripper in town
And with a swing of her hips she started to strip
To tremendous applause she took off her drawers
And with a lick of her lips she undid all the clips
Threw it all in the air, and everyone stared
And as the last piece of clothing fell to the floor
The police were banging on the door
On a Saturday night, in nineteen twenty-four
Take it away boys!
But poor Patricia was arrested and everyone detested
The manner in which she was exposed
And later on in court, well, everybody thought
A summer run in jail would be proposed
But the judge said, "Patricia
Or may I say, Delicia
The facts of this case lie before me
Case dismissed, this girl was in her working clothes!"
And with a swing of her hips, she started to strip
To tremendous applause she took off her drawers
And with a lick of her lips she undid all her clips
Threw it all in the air, and everyone stared
And as the last piece of clothing fell to the floor
The police were yelling out for more!
On a Saturday night in nineteen twenty-four
On a Saturday night in nineteen twenty-four

 

[oracle]

Oops

 

[Risteard]

Quite right, but only dead tests are taken

Live testing precedes dead testing in this instance.

A different kind of proving dead.

 

[Shoei]

The good old days, took two of us just to get the MFT to the job back then.

 

[Toneyz]

Dopey question there Oracalrick, Pat is also short for Patricia, the only one I'm concerned about.
Going off topic a bit Lads, shall we all grow up and act like the sensible people we like to think we are?

What this lot Pete! you've got no chance.

 

[Pete999]

What this lot Pete! you've got no chance.

No chance of what Ant?

 

[oracle]

Growing up and acting sensible Pete, try to keep up, old fella, it was your remark he's commenting on

 

[Pete999]

Growing up and acting sensible Pete, try to keep up, old fella, it was your remark he's commenting on

Was I commenting? I was remarking on how the thread had gotten a bit off topic that's all

 

[oracle]

Remark: verb; to say something as a comment

 

[westward10]

I have deleted some posts from this thread due to the possibility some may find it offensive. Can you consider what you are typing before posting.

 

[buzzlightyear]

what a cruel way of dying in that chair ,before shoving McDonalds down you .I would rather ask for burger king .

 

[PEG]

Does all this nonsense,stem from a simple picture of a standard Manchester barbers chair?

 

[Rpa07]

I think we possibly have deduced that @oracle is closely related to @SWD - no offence Oracle!

 

[Rpa07]

I think we possibly have deduced that @oracle is closely related to @SWD

No offence SWD!

And that my friends is Diplomacy!

 

[Squid]

what a cruel way of dying in that chair ,before shoving McDonalds down you .I would rather ask to be buggered..... .

You worry me sometimes........

 

[Squid]

No offence SWD!

And that my friends is Diplomacy!

Now you offended both of us ;o))))))

 

[oracle]

You can't offend me by associating me with anyone with a proven grasp of grammar, diction and spelling. It's the Sun readership that make me cringe.

"Six munths ago I carnt spel eliktrishin and now I is one"

I weep for this generation....

 

[static zap]

...

"Six munths ago I carnt spel eliktrishin and now I is one"

I weep for this generation....

Reliance on technology to "korekt stuff" for them.

A big reality check/lesson was received when O2 Network broke.

 

[ackbarthestar]

However, across the pond, Americans who love new and exciting technologies, developed the electric chair. This was not to warm your bottom, but to fry it!

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Electric chair? ........................... So where's the socket outlet?

 

[Pete999]

Electric chair? ........................... So where's the socket outlet?

It don't need one Mate, they wire the poor person and strap them to the chair, the hair ain't electric.

 

[static zap]

Returning to the first edition .
Twin core ,( probably both) wired fuses .
New fangled ,carbon filament incandescents .
For no messing/no sooty stains on wall ,lighting on demand.
(Tungsten filaments not patented till 1904)
----CAUTION-- source = Wiki==----
" Testing may be interesting depending on local supplier 'Earthing' arrangements"...speculation...

 

[oracle]

Returning to the first edition .
Twin core ,( probably both) wired fuses .
New fangled ,carbon filament incandescents .
For no messing/no sooty stains on wall ,lighting on demand.
(Tungsten filaments not patented till 1904)
----CAUTION-- source = Wiki==----
" Testing may be interesting depending on local supplier 'Earthing' arrangements"...speculation...

It was DC no earthing provided for years to come, long after AC was invented

 

[static zap]

My next thought was Billing , fixed charge /fuse capacity related?
( The did'nt do a mercury migration run-hrs timer as seen on yester years pcbs )

 

[oracle]

Oliver B. Shallenberger Invents the A.C. Watt-Hour Meter. On 14 August 1888 he received a patent for the watt-hour meter, a device that measured the amount of A.C. current and made possible the business model of the electric utility.

 

[Taylortwocities]

1st edition. I thought I had a copy somewhere....