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Pete999 said:
Do you have a GS 38 approved voltage indicator, if not, and you are using your 179 to prove dead or live then you could be putting yourself at risk, imho
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my test leads are gs38 approved with fuses in the leads.


how am i putting myself at risk with it? perfectly safe and it is fused inside the meter as well
 
Martindale approved voltage indicator and proving unit. They are less than a hundred quid and go on forever, and do what they are meant to do without any useless frilly bits.

I had similar problems with my old test lamps, and although they did do the job until some prcik took the lamp out for a laugh, not very funny if my apprentice had have used it on a live circuit and thought it was dead. The martindale is tamperproof.

Cheers.................Howard
 
SirKit Breaker said:
Martindale approved voltage indicator and proving unit. They are less than a hundred quid and go on forever, and do what they are meant to do without any useless frilly bits.

I had similar problems with my old test lamps, and although they did do the job until some prcik took the lamp out for a laugh, not very funny if my apprentice had have used it on a live circuit and thought it was dead. The martindale is tamperproof.

Cheers.................Howard
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charge a capcitor up and put it on his desk.

better idea although its cruel, double sided tape it to van door handle
 
anything with a digital display/analog gauge instead of an off/on lamp.
sometimes you get some weird voltages on circuits, not enough to be picked up by a simple tester, enough to give you a
nasty belt when touched...
 
My test lamp.
 

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They're very good, although probes are bloody lethal kept stabbing myself everytime I went in my tool box had to run a file over the tip just to take the edge off.

Drummond are discontinuing the old pigmy lamp type ones though I expect there is plenty of old stock knocking around.
 
Good test leads those , I have 2 sets from the DNO days , the only voltages I would use them on are LV , 230 and 400v , it glows brighter on 400v ...


Those leads are fused as well , and come with angled tips also for different angles ..
 
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