I'm revising for an electrical safety lesson thing i'm taking at work.
This afternoon, i've got a one-hour session bringing myself up to speed on questions about electrical safety, and then I've got a test on Monday.

A Portable Appliance Testing course.

Just a few example questions (there are 80 in total, so i'm not going to type them all). I have answered most of these, I just thought I'd share them, so you can share in my pain.

3. Who should carry out electrical testing?
6. What function does a fuse have?
10. What is the purpose of doubly insulating an appliance?
22. On a standard UK Mains plug, which pin is the earth pin?
31. When carrying out a visual inspection, what are the ten main points to check?32. What action should be taken if an appliance fails at any stage of the testing procedure?
38. What sort of loads cause surge currents?
39. Show the relationship between Power, Voltage and Current.
43. How can the quality of an earting network be measured?
51. Is it permited to touch an appliace during certain tests?
58. What considerations should be taken when selecting an earth test point?
59. What does an insulation test check?
64. What does a flash test measure?
71. What is leakeage current?

Such fun. So much fun I may indeed shit myself with glee.
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:03, archived)

Will you cook my dinner for me? My parents aren't around and I'm not allowed to turn on the stove

( Hankster, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:04, archived)

Yeah ok.
Where do you live?
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:05, archived)

I found a moonrock in my nose

( Benny Tied To A Tree As much use as Anne Frank's drumkit, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:07, archived)

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:10, archived)

That's where I saw the Leprechaun
He told me to burn things
( Benny Tied To A Tree As much use as Anne Frank's drumkit, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:14, archived)

Yeh knows what to do now, boy!
Born them all!
( Newington, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:15, archived)

Everyone's hugging!

( Benny Tied To A Tree As much use as Anne Frank's drumkit, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:25, archived)

yes supernintendo chalmers

( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:28, archived)

ooh let me do one
i ated the purple berries


they taste like burning
( The Incredible... accident free since, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:45, archived)

My knob tastes funny!


"Please refarin from tasting the knobs"
( newg rum n coke, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:50, archived)

marmots eh?

( Tiggy Twitchin', Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:08, archived)

im learning to love shitting myself with glee.
and you should too!
( Tiggy Twitchin', Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:04, archived)

81: What voltage is required to kill an average
a: human being
b: marmot
c: piece of cheese
( Dave - KneHigHbOb talks, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:12, archived)

The average human being
is already dead.

100% fact.
( Newington, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:41, archived)

3. Go to a pub. You're bound to meet a man there who'll do it for a fiver. If the man has a beard, a dodgy tattoo, and prosthetic hands made of copper, all the better.

6. self.melt()

10. You can charge twice as much for your time.

22. It's in between the drawing pin and the Kingpin.

31. Your eyes are open. The side of your head facing the equipment to be tested is the side with your eyes on. You are wearing any prescription spectacles or contact lenses.

32. Leap thirty feet in the air, glow yellow and make your skeleton visible, and assume a Bride-of-Frankenstein hairdo.

38. Giant raisins.

51. Hell yeah, how else you gonna test it?

59. Diabetes.

64. Violation of indecent exposure laws.
( Newington, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:14, archived)

*cackle*
Maybe I should give comedy answers to the ones i've got no chance of guessing :-D
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:16, archived)