Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit – Test Kit Only
Original price was: £1,900.00.£1,458.00Current price is: £1,458.00. + VAT
Limited Time only introductory offer with the launch of CWU Backflow website!
The Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit is your gateway into digital backflow testing. Using groundbreaking technology, the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit will make your backflow testing more accurate, more efficient and easier to complete.
This price includes a £150 fee for a calibration certificate.
First Class – Next Day Delivery
If you’re fully equipped with backflow testing tools, the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit is available for purchase as an individual unit. If the test kit is the missing part of your toolkit, upgrading to the digital gauge has never been simpler.
By purchasing the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit individually, this presents you with an easy avenue to upgrade your backflow testing processes, if you already have the other required kit to complete your digitalised backflow testing.
The Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit is a water-resistant digital solution to backflow testing, carrying a vast array of benefits that aren’t available with a traditional analogue gauge. The test kit allows you to transform your backflow testing processes, maximising time, accuracy and deliverability of results.
| Weight | 1.9 kg (without batteries) |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 9 × 7.25 × 2.5 in |
| Power Source | Battery Powered |
| Ingress Protection | IP57 |
| Maximum Working Temperature | (temperature of the water being measured) 60°C |
| Maximum Working Pressure | (inlet pressure into the backflow prevention assembly being tested) 175 psi (1206 kPa) |
| Normal Operating Temperature |
18°C to 28°C |
| Storage Temperature | 20°C to 60°C, 0 to 80% RH with battery removed from meter (batteries tend to degrade from temperature and humidity changes and when outside normal operating environments) |
| Auto-power off | 30 minutes |
| Response time | 1 second for the main display and 1/30 second for the rate of change graph. |
The Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit provides possibilities that are unimaginable with analogue gauges. Connecting the test kit with RPZ valves is simple, with no need to eliminate the valve from the system. With quick test fittings, you’re able to create a quick, sturdy connection that maximises accurate results.
Once the backflow testing is taking place, the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit can carry out all procedures, generating stable results to provide you with values in faster times than traditional gauges. With an ability to accurately measure valve functionality and pressure chambers, you can be confident in the stability of the results.
When you’re provided with final values, you can save the data with the click of a button, with the ability to create an approved report to be instantly supplied to the customer and water regulators. With correct measurements instantly supplied digitally, there is no risk in miswriting or mis-reading values.
Only UK Distributor
As an Arbiter approved distributor, Cherwell Water Utilities are providing you with exclusive access to the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit. Being the only UK distributor, take this opportunity to improve your backflow testing procedures with increased safety and efficient data recording.
Technical Specifications
For more information on the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit including technical specifications, diagrams and functions, download the Operator’s Manual to learn of the additional specifications and information that the test kit offers.
Certificate of Calibration
The Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit has received UKAS Calibration, justifying its incredible functionality, transforming backflow testing processes. With ±1 kPA Accuracy, view our Certificate of Calibration here.
Easy Mako 5 Guide
Why Choose the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit?
Backflow testing has been revolutionised with groundbreaking technology. The digital gauge presents possibilities to technicians that will rewrite processes all over the country. By adopting the use of a digital gauge, you’ll be maximising the benefits that the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit has to offer, enabling you to provide a transformative backflow testing service.
Capture Button
The capture button on the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit saves the values of your current test, making a note of them digitally. This eliminates the need to constantly be checking the gauge with a pen in hand, trying to keep track of measurements whilst at the risk of being distracted.
Simple Placement
The design of the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit allow it to sit in your hand comfortably or be hung anywhere near the assembly with its swivel hook. Aiming to make backflow testing easier for you, the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit’s design was completed with technicians in mind, and how the test kit can be used in the most conveniently way to simplify your backflow testing.
Easy Visibility Backlit Display
The large values and backlit display simplifies the reading of measurements, allowing you to view the display with ease in any lighting condition that you complete your backflow testing in.
Accuracy of Readings
When in a calibrated range, the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit delivers an accurate reading to ±1 kPa. The test kit can obtain precise results quicker than analogue gauges.
Easy to Handle
The ergonomic design of the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit enables an easy grip in dry and wet conditions. The soft rubber moulding gives a comfortable hold, making the test kit easy to grab, use and carry.
Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit Training
We offer training solutions for the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit, giving you a helping hand with getting the most out of the test kit as possible.
With backflow testing turning a corner into digitalisation, the vast benefits that the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit offers need to be taken advantage of.
The features of the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit provides you with the opportunity to streamline your processes, resulting in more efficient testing that improves accuracy and reduces time.
Whether you prefer training videos or hand-on training with a mobile unit, our assistance can be moulded to suit your learning approaches the best.
Cherwell Water Utilities have extensive experience in delivering training across the water industry. Our extensive knowledge and accreditations validate us as a trusted source of knowledge to ensure safe, proper and efficient knowledge on how to operate the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit.
If you’d like to take advantage of our professional training for the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit, you can rely on the team at Cherwell Water Utilities to provide you with sound knowledge, so you can use your Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit with ease.
Quick Test Fittings for the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit
For your Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit to function as efficiently to its potential, you’ll want to make sure that you have quick test fittings on hand. Creating a connection between the test kit and the RPZ valves, secure attachment provides a more convenient connection method than traditional tape and thread.
The watertight seal from quick test fittings results in a more accurate measurement being taken from the test kit, due to its more stable connection.
The design of the quick test fittings prioritise speed, enabling you to simply detach and attach without any hassle, reducing the need to fiddle with any other attachments.
The O Rings screw into the RPZ valve outlet, creating a wholesome water self-sealing connection. For strong, aluminium test fittings, this increases the quality and accuracy of your backflow testing, enabling your Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit to be used to its potential.
Do You Need the ‘Ready to Test’ Bundle?
If you need the full set of equipment to use the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit, view our ‘Ready to Test’ Bundle. With a full set of tools, you’ll be ready to begin backflow testing with the high-quality professional kit that comes with the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit.
With equipment quality that exceeds industry standard, the bundle acts as an investment that will see your backflow testing soar to higher levels of quality, improving the accuracy and reliability of your measurements.
If you’re ready to take advantage of revolutionary technology to improve your backflow testing, learn more about the bundle now.
Further Resources
Instructions
Understand the instructions on how to use the Mako 5-Valve Backflow Test Kit.
AIM Document
Read the AIM-08-01 Issue 3 Document to understand the regulations for RPZ Valve installation, commissioning and testing.
Testing Suitability
View further information on the suitability criteria for RPZ Test Equipment.

