EICR

[leep82]

I must say that i think the company i am subbing to are expecting to much from me. They wanted the EICR done in a day and i just dont feel i have been as thorough as i would have liked to have been. The are 5 sub main DB's with varying amounts of final circuits supplied from them. A couple only had no more than six circuits and with only testing 20% these were relatively quick to get through. Two more were quite large 36 way boards that were nearly full. Testing 20% on each of these naturally took a little longer. I am also questioning myself as to whether or not i took enough accessories off to inspect.

 

[Des 56]

Leep82

A Napit boss came up with a time predictor for estimating how long and how much to charge

I think it was something like 40 mins per distribution board and 40 mins per circuit

Now lets do the very rough estimate
5 x sub boards = 200 mins = 3 hours ish
say 20 circuits per board on average,that is 100 circuits at 40 mins = 4000 mins or 66 hours ish

So your inspection would take 69 hours/or about 10 days in real money at the Napit rate

The moral here is do any inspections Napit sub out and jack in with that other lot

 

[robd]

I'd say you get a good feel for accessories once you've taken a few off, if there's anything amiss you'll pick up on it and take more off to check, if they look ok then fine.

A proper EICR should take as long as it takes really but if you work to a system you won't waste too much time. I always turn everything on to see what isolates where and on which circuit then work from there. If there are records from a previous test then great.

Just record what you find and you can't go wrong. It's like CSI electrics half the time, especially when the world and his brother have had a go at things and there are no records!

 

[freddo]

At the minute I am sub contracting to a local company and tomorrow have to go and carry out an EICR on a pub.

[QUOTE="leep82, post: 1251733, member: 47984"of which we only ended up having to do 20% of final circuits,[/QUOTE]

Does this company you are doing the work for have 3 letters for the first part of the name?

 

[leep82]

[QUOTE="leep82, post: 1251733, member: 47984"of which we only ended up having to do 20% of final circuits,

Does this company you are doing the work for have 3 letters for the first part of the name? [/QUOTE]
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[leep82]

Does this company you are doing the work for have 3 letters for the first part of the name?

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Have i missed somthing?

 

[DPG]

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[freddo]

oops I messed up the quotes, there was supposed to be 2 of them!

 

[Dave the spark]

Does this company you are doing the work for have 3 letters for the first part of the name?

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[leep82]

oops I messed up the quotes, there was supposed to be 2 of them!

I was getting at what you meant by the company having three letters at the start of there name

 

[DPG]

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[telectrix]

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pedantic sod.