Do you need a calibration certificate on new equipment?

[Moley]

All our new equipment has to have a new calibration cert before we use it. Even if it's straight out of the box. It's not our policy but the sites we work at.

 

[Diver233]

If you have a test box you can prove it against, or another calibrated meter take the readings and that should satisfy any certification body with it being a brand new meter.

It is a con that you buy a meter and you have to buy a certificate extra.
Listen up suppliers it pees your customers (us) off

 

[davesparks]

The manufacturer must calibrate it when they manufacture it, otherwise it wouldn't read correctly. And that is probably the only time that any actual adjustment will happen as part of the calibration process, the annual calibration will rarely be anything more than plugging it in to a fancy check box.