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My son is a recently qualified electrical installer (6 months) unfortunately his employer is giving him the opportunity to become self employed (as in self employed or dole/new job) and work as a contractor for them.
Not really a problem as he would have looked to do this at some stage and now has the chance to do it sooner rather than later.
This means that he will have to do his own paperwork and as he is severely dyslexic with lousy hand writing this is worrying him. Previously he would write out results... fill forms etc and someone in the office would rewrite it for him.
Now his mum and I could do that for him but he would ideally like to be able to use a computer to print nice neat forms for him. He is used to using a Fluke 1652C but has seen that the 1653B has the potential to download to a computer and a software package .
Has anyone used this and got an insight into how well it works?
All the very best
David
While I can't comment on how the software works, it may be worth posting on these forums:
http://www.talk.electricianforum.co.uk/
http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/
The iet are bringing out downloadable forms. Your multifunction tester will not fill them in for you unless you have the correct tester and software but he could just use his old tester, write stuff down by hand then at home copy to the computer forms and print off.
http://electrical.theiet.org/wiring-regulations/forms/index.cfm
There are some other editable form on the web too but I can't remember where.
Would the likes of a netbook be any use to him?
They are reasonanbly cheap theses days, they have 9hr+battery life on alot of models and with them being fairly small and light it could be carried around without too much hassle.
It would the be a case of loading the form while completing the job and typing the values as required, he could set up pre typed sheets in spreadseets or documents that all was required was enrty of the values. He could even use open office which is free to download?
It's a good point, you don't have to use any particular forms, all they have to do is impart the information in the rough manor in the model forms in the regs. So he or you or someone you know who is ok with word + excel produce from editable form for him.
Thanks for the advice... will try the specialist forums.
D
I use this - [url= http://www.tysoft.co.uk/ ]http://www.tysoft.co.uk/[/url]
It's not stupidly expensive, does a good job and doesn't tie you to any one competent person scheme.
The iet forms have been coming out for a long time...
Just remember the regs are changing next year with very different forms so make sure you get stuff compatible with this.
Stu
One of the lads just uses a netbook when he's testing, puts everything in a spreadsheet and goes from there