Calibrating an MFT electricians tester with

[@Sparks1Plumbers0]

Nice interesting video there Mark and great to see TIS are growing the business too. Plus never knew they had the calibration side, goes to show every day is a school day eh. 👍 Thanks for sharing.

[@Cablesmith]

Interesting video mark. I was at the Screwfix facing this place last week! back again this week too. Never knew they did calibrations either

[@theTruthisoutThere...Honest]

Mark, seen your hook up with TIS in several of your videos and have to say I'm a sucker for a home grown company. Just bought my brothers lad one of their 560 earth clamp meters for his birthday. I think he's in his third year now and was made up with the meter. One thing, have you thought about doing a short video on their use and correct application etc...? He's got the basics under his hat but tbh his college is not the best at actually teaching the useful day-to-day hands on stuff! He's getting some of this at weekends working with his dad but in all honesty he's not doing any one thing intensively or for a long enough period in my mind for it to sink in and stay, so a fall-back guide on some of the gear he's got would help. Anyway thanks for all your time and hard work you put into your videos and best of luck with you baby - Apprentice 121 👍

[@electrician247]

Thanks mate. I will be doing some videos on the tis gear 100% but check out TIS KZbin link in the description of the video. They have some on that already. Great to hear of people entering the trade as well 👍

[@theTruthisoutThere...Honest]

@@electrician247 Thanks for the reply [can you tell I don't get a lot of time to sit and check out KZbin - sign of my age eh!]. But anyway did take a look at the TIS offerings and sadly even I as a non electrician came away a bit underwhelmed at the sparse content/lack of actual in-use demonstrations. On that earth clamp thing I mention they show them using it on another piece of their test equipment but not on actual cabling? Can't understand given they are the manufactures that they so undersell their own products or chose to keep their features a closely guarded secret, let hope you do a few real world demonstrations of these products as I know my nephew is so eager to learn and whilst the internet is vast and full of useless information on a whole, actual useful information is hard to find. But anyway thanks for your helpful videos to date, I know he loves watching them hence his pointing me in your direction. 🤑👍

[@three-phase562]

Unusual to see a cal lab doing an adjustment as part of their process, most of the ones I send instruments to, the adjustment is an extra cost, or they send it back as failed. Exceptions are the high end instruments I have that have the adjustment built in, but they adjust to best specification every time rather than if it is just out of tolerance. Do pay a lot for that though.

[@electrician247]

TIS and TIC are awesome

[@ef7480]

Great stuff. Just wondering if they calibrate an old fluke MFT?

[@electrician247]

They calibrate all mfts mate.

[@Chris-Thistleton]

Do they repair the displays? Mine got broken just a week after I purchased it

[@electrician247]

They sure do mate.

[@pnxelectrical]

Any chance of a follow up one showing repair to bring back in tolerance? I'm curious as to how that's achieved; software tweak? Potentiometer? Component replacement? Very informative 😃

[@electrician247]

I'm sure that can be arranged! I'm back into TIS as often as they allow 🤣. I believe its software controlled unless components are faulty

[@pnxelectrical]

@@electrician247 certainly going by what they've said in the video; theirs is software based (mentioned they connect it to their system and bring it back into spec) but everyone else I have no idea. Just for giggles I googled the machine they use and it's some *serious* coin 😱 Reckon they can send a faulty unit to big clive to post mortem? 🤣 Can imagine some serious circuitry.

[@MegaMetinMetin]

Good tester to practice on?

[@anthonybragg]

So what happens if it is out of the specification as Sean Dempsey posted it's just a bit more than putting it on a checkbox under more controlled conditions?

[@electrician247]

It's in the video mate. Gets put back in spec. This is a little more than a checkbox exercise tbh. All in the video 🙌. Annual calibration is essential imho with at least monthly checkbox in-between

[@anthonybragg]

@@electrician247 Sorry must have missed it had been a long day. Fully understand what they do in a calibration, when I asked someone once they said they didn't put it back to the spec I will ask tomorrow as mine is being calibrated tomorrow. Should be regularly putting on a checkbox for ongoing accuracy. When I was a Q.S. we had to also send the checkbox away for calibration.

[@electrician247]

@ANTHONY BRAGG I think TIS are unique in bringing back to spec. So of your are not using them the other providers probs don't.