- Today we're gonna take a look
at the Megger MFT-X1 multifunction tester.
With X in the title and a jet black look about it,
it's very much on trend, and that reminds me
of the day of the product was being launched,
how pleased the team at Megger were to send out that tweet.
I grabbed it outta the box.
There's loads of great features,
and we're gonna cover as many as we can in this video,
but it's very intuitive.
I just picked it up and off I went testing,
which was rather handy, 'cause in this workshop,
we've had an additional socket installed,
which means I need to complete a minor work certificate.
In order to do that, I've been using the piece
of cardboard that I've got my results on.
Are you the sort of person that uses cardboard,
or do you populate the certificate straight away?
And before he says it, or I can use the CertSuite set
of electronic certificates you've got in your hand, Rick.
- That's true,
but it's also got a handy little trick up its sleeve.
So why don't you go put the kettle on and get some biscuits?
So then guys, the Megger X1 has Bluetooth inside it,
which will enable it to connect to your phone or tablet.
- Okay, before we enter that technical stuff,
we're really interested in what is today's biscuit,
and we've got the milk chocolate digestive.
Now, I can't say that I haven't been keeping eye on you,
'cause out the corner of that eye,
I've notice you recording results,
but on paperwork that doesn't look
like the stuff that I'm used to seeing
in say, guidance notes three,
and therefore, the stuff that I sent to the client.
- Yeah, so what you've got there is it's actually
a form that you're filling in.
So any information that you're picking up
with the tester is then being transferred onto that form.
That form can be replicated onto the certificate,
which you are familiar with.
- Okay, and then can I email that out maybe to the client?
- Yeah, so if you went down to the preview report section
of that, you can output the,
well, output a PDF of that document.
- Okay, so let's imagine I'm not a QS in the business, okay?
And I'm on a large site.
Is there any way that the QS can get involved electronically
with a certificate on building?
- Yeah, so as part of this CertSuite,
you can actually have multiple users.
So let's say you have a field or a lot of operatives
that are working for you, they can all be out there
gathering information and pumping it all
into the CertSuite, and you can have the QS
that's sat at home sipping his tea
and having some biscuits, he can then sign that off.
- That sounds like a bit of me, that does.
However, as I look at that tester,
I don't think you're gonna be able to use it, Rick.
Do you wanna take a closer look
while I get the biscuits?
- Yeah, I think I'm gonna need a battery.
- Would you like a biscuit?
- Ah, go on.
- Hopefully, that was a surprise for you, Rick.
We've got a rechargeable battery here,
and there is nothing more satisfying
than when this goes into the X1 tester.
We gotta locating pins here, and as I drop it in,
there it is connected, and to release it,
both sliders, and it pops up, take it back out,
and obviously, we can recharge it from this point here.
I'm gonna show you a couple of tests and some
of the great features within those tests by performing
the earth fault loop impedance and the RCD test.
- [Rick] Well, before we get started, though,
if we just wanna rotate that wheel round to the cog,
that should take us into the settings menu.
- [Gary] Okay.
- [Rick] And once you're in there,
if you wanna just slide that down.
- [Gary] Yeah.
- [Rick] Until we get to the network connection.
If you wanna switch that to on.
- [Gary] Okay.
- [Rick] And you'll see at the bottom there,
the Bluetooth symbol flashing.
Now we've got the Bluetooth function working
on the Megger X1.
If we move across onto the iPad
and select the Megger CertSuite,
which is also available on Android, let that log in.
I've already created an account, so we should be good to go.
I've created a couple of jobs.
You might even hear a loud buzzing sound.
That's just to let you know
that the device has connected with the app, but if not,
(device beeps)
well, there we go, but if not,
if we move across onto test instruments, click current.
If we have a look at the top here,
you'll see where it says MFT.
If I click that, it's connected, and away we go.
- We also know by looking at the actual X1
and the symbol we saw earlier that was flashing,
the Bluetooth symbol is not flashing now
'cause the two are connected.
So we're into the world of the technology bit,
and this is definitely a bit of you, Rick.
However, under your tutelage,
I've got a little business going on myself here.
So first of all, using CertSuite,
can you show me where all the certificates are
that I would need to populate as an electrician?
And we'll work back from there.
- Yep, we'll just go into the current jobs tab here.
You can see there,
these are the current jobs that we've got currently active.
- [Gary] Okay, want a brand new fresh one,
so that's what we're doing,
and we're doing a minor work certificate in here,
so let's go for a fresh one.
Is that the plus in the corner?
- [Rick] Yep, if we press the plus,
and then we can see there,
you've gotta select one of the job categories.
- So we go UK electrical certification,
and there we go.
We're comfortable with seeing those.
That's something we're very happy with.
And if I wanted to do therefore go straight to a minor works
and I start populating it manually by typing
in all the information?
- Yes.
- [Gary] However, let's imagine
that this workshop was wired, say 11 months ago.
- [Rick] Yep.
- A full electrical installation certificate was
issued, and gone through the CertSuite.
We'd have all the information already in here,
and you've told me that I can actually use that
to create the minor works we're gonna do today.
- You can, yes, so if I just back outta that,
so we can see here, we've got Rick's workshop, the EIC.
So we've got the certificate already populated,
maybe not 11 months ago, but we got populated.
- It's almost populated.
Remember, there are so many fantastic features.
We won't be able to demonstrate 'em all.
So we've sort of had a go
with that certificate, haven't we?
- We have, yes.
- Because we know we can use it to create a minor works.
Could do one from fresh,
but we're gonna use that to create a minor works.
- We can, yes, so if we just, we slide across here,
and then if we click on this actions tab there.
- [Gary] Yep.
- [Rick] We'll click copy, and we can see there,
we can instantly create a minor work certificate from that.
- Lot of choices there for us.
So I can do an individual minor works certificate,
or I could have what it says there, multiple.
So imagine I came to this workshop,
and it wasn't just the additional socket
we were having here.
Maybe we put one of these bulkheads in.
I could create two at the same time?
- [Rick] Yeah, you can do as many as you want.
- [Gary] Okay, so that's really simple, isn't it, Rick?
Let's just stick with simplicity
and go with the one certificate for me.
- [Rick] Yeah, so if we just click on this top one here.
- [Gary] Yeah.
- [Rick] Oh, try again, there we go, and then click.
Before we click-
- [Gary] Give it a new name?
- [Rick] Give it a new name.
We don't have to call it copy.
- No, okay, so Rick's workshop,
we're having this additional shop you put in,
we're creating a minor works, and we're gonna draw
on all the information we've done before.
This is fantastic, isn't it?
You go back regularly to electrical installations
using this software, 'cause you're gonna build up a catalog
of information that can be drawn on.
So we're gonna create this, so here we go.
So now we've gotta know what the circuit's on, okay?
So it's on the third circuit, so here we go down here,
so it's actually, we think it's 3L2, do you agree?
- [Rick] Yes it is.
- Okay, and when we click on that, it's gonna draw
all the information off the certificate that we did
when we initially installed the wiring,
cable sizes, circuit breaker, et cetera,
save us a load of time.
- That's it, yeah.
- Okay, so let's do that.
- [Rick] So if you wanna select that one, try again.
- [Gary] Here we go, so in we come.
So we've got a new certificate there.
- [Rick] So there we go, Rick's workshop, MEWS socket.
- Okay, it's actually new socket, but we'll work
on spelling in a different part of the video.
Right, okay, so we click on it now?
- Well, it's not, it's not.
It's the electrical drawing.
(both laughing)
- Here we go, so this is great, isn't it?
So we're self populating the certificate, and you said to me
and I like this, it works as a ladder, doesn't it?
So the left hand side, every time I hit next-
- Yes.
- We move down to another one of the rows, don't we?
So okay, we could add more information.
At this stage, we're not going to, and wow, brilliant,
so we've already got it in there.
Let's say this was somebody new.
Once you've wrote in the new details,
is there any way of saving them?
- Yes, if you just scroll down to the bottom here,
you've got save contacts,
so that we'll automatically add 'em straight
into your contacts list.
But as we are already pulling it
from a previous certificate, it's pulled in the information.
Let's say it wasn't on there,
we can go into our contacts,
and then populate this information automatically.
- [Gary] And if their phone number had changed,
I'd just click on there.
Once I click on the phone number,
I'd just go away and keyboard and type?
- [Rick] Exactly. - Really easy, isn't it?
So let's go down again, let's move
through some of these a little bit briskly now.
So we've got the details of the installation,
and we've got the inspector.
This is when you get your own back,
is it, for the spelling moment we just had?
So I've noticed the inspector's Richard Gaunt.
- Yeah, well I've got you added in here,
so let's tap this other,
or somebody else that can also do some inspection.
- I like it, okay.
We've got Richard, and the other one's Gary.
Okay, so that's brilliant.
So we could choose me.
We're not going to, so that's all right,
I'm happy with that.
So as we come out of that, again, once we've added
more details in here, it would self populate, do you agree?
- [Rick] That's true.
- [Gary] Okay, so we haven't done that.
Remember, that first certificate was a little bit thin
on information, so let's go through again.
Comments on the installation,
all things that we're used to now.
So now we have the supply characteristics
drawn in from the certificate.
So from previous, we knew it was a TN-C arrangement.
- [Rick] It's brought, it's pull that straight in.
- If however, we thought somebody had made a mistake,
or maybe the earthing arrangement was changed to TT.
- We could have learned that.
- [Gary] Yeah, so we can just click on TT,
and we can take out, obviously,
the T and TS, and then we've changed that for that.
- [Rick] Yep.
- [Gary] That's so easy.
Let's go back, 'cause it is a TN-C-S,
so we like that one, and we've got
all the other information we could now just fill in.
We go next again, and look, here we go.
So this has all been drawn in.
I haven't put any of this information in.
- [Rick] Exactly, yeah, so it's telling you there
that it's from the workshop DB, it's three phase,
and if we go a bit further down, we can see there
what it was wired in, the CPC sizes.
- Oh, well done, yeah, and here's now at it.
20 amp breakouts, so it's an A3 radial effectively,
and they're using the principles of an A3 radial.
We did did that when we did it in other videos as well.
As electricians, we quite like carrying out the test.
We're not walking around with the test,
and we certainly like walking around with the X1,
'cause it looks so snazzy,
but filling the paperwork in,
that's where the old piece of cardboard comes in,
a little bit of paper.
- Yep.
- This is saving us no end of time, isn't it, the CertSuite?
- Well, this is it, so if we just move a bit further down,
and if we wanted to carry out any of the tests
that you can see here.
- [Gary] Yep.
- [Rick] Once we perform the test on the the Megger X1.
- [Gary] Yep.
- You tell it to save,
it automatically transfers that information onto the app
and pre-populates all data, which prevents fat fingers.
- Okay, so one question for you.
So I've got the say, the 1741.
- Yes. - Okay,
and I'm using CertSuite.
All the differences,
everything else we've just done would happily work away
when we populate it in,
and we just manually put our test results in?
- Exactly, yeah, exactly.
- Which is not a difficult task
when all the hard work's been done.
- No.
- Saves the old piece of cardboard.
- It does.
- So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna carry out
on the, we know it's meant to be that the highest value
on the radial circuit somewhere over there.
We're actually just gonna, for this part
of the show, an earth fault loop impedance
on that socket there to see how the information transfers
into the paperwork, but there's also some great features,
Rick, within that impedance test.
So let's move from settings round to our impedance,
and what I like about the Megger suite
of testers is that they use the same color palette
and the same symbols across their MFT ranges.
And then we can look at this top section here
to choose how we want to carry out the test.
So we're doing our impedance test.
We have an RCD in the circuit, so we've got an RCD.
We could have the RCD for an EV,
so we've got the ability to change that.
We've got the help screen here, so I wanna press this.
It'll give us a little idea of what we need to do
in order to carry out the test.
So we'll come back out that one,
and then we've got the ability,
and we are gonna do the three wire test on this socket,
because we've got the neutral as well present.
But if you were carrying out
another fault loop impedance test
at a switch where you only had the line
and protective conductor, you can do the two wire test.
Each of these actions can be moved using this here,
so we can scroll around.
But you notice this time, we're jumping across
from two wire, and we're jumping across to three wires.
So we're moving and missing out the center one there,
which is two wire high resolution.
In order to get that test to be carried out,
you need to come back for RCD
and not have an RCD in circuit.
So Rick, this could be your distribution board
in a commercial property backs onto the supply transformer,
so you're doing your external fault loop impedance,
and you've got next to no cable in circuit,
so that loop test
that you're gonna carry out externally is gonna be
very, very low, and if you do this on the test
that we can now select, we can either select it there
by moving it round, or we can select it by changing it here.
If we do it on the two wire high resolution test,
the actual machine now can read as low as 0.001 of an ohm.
That is an incredibly low reading, and is not present
on any of the the MFT testers from Megger.
And it also can go up to 50 kA,
so you think of that short circuit protection.
So that's the current rating,
and it can measure up to as well.
So that's within that section there.
We don't need that one, so we can come back.
We've got an RCD in our circuit,
and we're gonna carry out the three wire test.
And as always, we're now ready to go.
We just insert our leads,
which are also color coordinated on our plug.
So we can take our blue, our green, and our red one.
We're ready to carry out that test, and then we'll see
if it does pass the results onto the iPad.
- [Rick] Right, Gary, if you wanna get that plugged in,
and we can start doing some testing.
- [Gary] Okay, so here we go and we're on.
And then we press the test and we're often running.
You see now it's a live test,
and you'll see the confidence meter, Rick,
at the top moving to get that accurate result
for the impedance.
As it comes in, those lines will come in,
it'll appear as our line and protective earth reading.
And we've got 0.32 ohms as I'd be interested to see
if that result then appears onto the iPad.
- [Rick] Right, well, first of all,
you're gonna have to press the save icon at the top.
Yep, that's it, and then just select ZS,
which it already is.
- [Gary] So I could have set selected it as a Z DB or a ZE.
So we're on the right one, so we're happy with that.
- [Rick] We're on ZS, and then press the tick at the top.
- [Gary] So press it just there.
- [Rick] And then it's sending it across,
and there we go.
The information has been sent across, let's click okay.
And if we have a look there, the maximum measured is 0.32,
which is the same as what we have on the unit here.
- [Gary] Okay, now, the problem is, Rick,
I made a little bit of a mistake.
I'm actually plugged into the wrong socket outlet,
so I'm gonna now move it across
to the one I should have gone in.
So it's a little bit further away now,
so I'm expecting this reading to change.
- [Rick] Yep.
- [Gary] Is it gonna be smart enough to know
that I've done another test again?
- [Rick] Well, let's run the test and see.
- [Gary] So just simply press start.
Okay, we're off and running again.
Confidence meter kicks in,
and we'll see what reading we get now.
We expect it to be a little bit harder further
down the radial circuit now,
and that reading comes in at 0.34 of an ohm,
so trumping the 0.32 that we had before.
- [Rick] So if we just do the same again,
click that save icon, ZS, and then the tick button again.
- [Gary] So just here, yeah?
- [Rick] It's gonna send it across,
(device beeping)
and there we go.
It's gonna say you've got a previous result.
Do we want to acknowledge it?
Yes, and there we go.
It's just switched over to 0.34,
and then goes what's the next test?
- [Gary] I've set it to the RCD test,
and it's come up with this screen here on the auto function.
So it will do half one, two, five ramp test
and in zero and 180 degrees.
I think the two times
for the RCD test is a continental thing.
I'd love your comments below to put me right
on what it actually is.
But I'm want to change this grid.
I don't want my auto test to do this one.
We know what the minimum requirement is
for testing an RCD.
So I'm gonna come out of this, and I'm gonna go
into my settings section, and find the RCD within here.
So if we look up here, we've got it
on general at the minute.
I'll scroll across.
I go to RCD, and I can come down this row
until right at the bottom here,
we've got our auto sequencing.
So if I tick that one, and there's my grid,
and they're all enabled at the minute.
So I can scroll through using the arrows at the top,
or this rotator here.
So I'm gonna come through and pick 'em.
I'm gonna, I'll keep the ramp in.
I'm gonna take out five.
So I'm gonna press this one here, disabled.
I'm definitely gonna take out the two,
'cause until people comment, I dunno what it's there for.
I'm gonna leave the one and a half times testing,
so I'm gonna do half, one, and ramp as my test for the RCD.
So I'm happy with that one, so tick that, and there we go.
So let's come back now to where our RCD test is.
Okay, we've come on to RCD,
and we'll see the auto test is now completely different.
It might be that you've gotta test your RCD.
You might be an A type one or you might be doing a B.
As we go through, got the EV, and then we've got the AC.
So you might want to do it as if it's an AC-RCD.
You might want to do it as one times,
and only in one of the degrees for the test itself.
I'm gonna play devilment here.
I'm gonna do it as an AC.
I'm obviously gonna do it
as if it's the 30 milliamps it is on an auto.
I'll do half one and the ramp test as my auto test,
so I'm happy and I'm ready and set up to go.
- [Rick] Now then, guys, if you wanna make your way
across to the board, I will switch this page,
'cause we need to be on the RCD page here,
and I will press the test button,
and let that perform its test.
- [Gary] So we'll quickly cycle through.
So we'll go through, we'll do the half the one and the ramp.
So at some point I'm gonna have to reset this for you, Rick.
- [Rick] Yep.
- [Gary] So as we go through,
we don't expect nothing to happen at half, which is,
nothing's happened in either end of cycle something we go.
(overlapping speech)
So we've tripped, so I'm gonna reset that for you.
- [Rick] Yep.
- [Gary] Okay, so that is reset,
and we should therefore, oh we're gone again.
And now it's gonna do that ramp test for us as well,
which I think is a valid test,
especially for nuisance tripping in the future.
So you can test it, see when it goes out,
and that's us done that test.
So with that completed,
we've gotta get those results now onto your iPad.
- [Rick] There we go.
So the last one has just performed there.
If you want just turn that back on for us.
- [Gary] Yep.
- [Rick] Right, so now we're gonna get that transferred,
and as we did before,
if you wanna press that save button.
- [Gary] This bit? - [Rick] There we go.
And there we go, we just need to tell it it's on L-1.
- [Gary] Okay, which is L-1, so we're happy with that,
so transfer the result.
- [Rick] There we go.
(device beeping) Okay, sending the info.
There we go on screen again,
it's giving us the results that we have.
Let's press the okay button, and there we go.
It's populated the operating times for us.
- And it's chosen the maximum of the two.
So we had 27 and 17.4,
so it's even done that for you, so classic.
I truly am an analog man trapped in a digital world,
but thanks to the Megger MFT X1 tester,
the CertSuite software,
and the incredible tutorage of you, Rick, even I got there.
- You're welcome.
- And if you're wondering what's inside
of the bag to do the X1 tester,
check out the short video on screen just there.