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The "19.99 error" is your KT63 telling you that the continuity is >19.99kΩ

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I'm not surprised. Your cellar circuit (left hand breaker) and lounge circuit (2nd from the left) are both radials. It says so, in blue Sharpie, on the breakers. (Actually, the lounge one says "lounge radial x2"). Maybe once upon a time it was a ring; now it is 2x radials, which explains the 20A breaker and the two wires going in to it.
 
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The "19.99 error" is your KT63 telling you that the continuity is >19.99kΩ

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I'm not surprised. Your cellar circuit (left hand breaker) and lounge circuit (2nd from the left) are both radials. It says so, in blue Sharpie, on the breakers. (Actually, the lounge one says "lounge radial x2"). Maybe once upon a time it was a ring; now it is 2x radials, which explains the 20A breaker and the two wires going in to it.
Thanks for the heads up
 
I don't intend to become a spark as means of income. I certainly don't feel confident enough to work on other peoples properties but I do have several properties myself that will require wiring at some point. I think I will get a job with the local council for some experience in the meantime.
Don't take long to learn how to lean on a shovel.
 
Give the lads at truetech training in cardiff a ring, they teach their courses on KT63 and have a "idiots guide" with step by step testing using that meter, get yourself a copy of the PDF and keep it in the bag
 
Give the lads at truetech training in cardiff a ring, they teach their courses on KT63 and have a "idiots guide" with step by step testing using that meter, get yourself a copy of the PDF and keep it in the bag
if ask most of the sparks on this forum and did pole on which test equipment do you use most would say a Megger .why because they are easy to use and under stand .
 
The Kewtech KT63 user-manual shows that the maximum continuity result shows as 19.99kOhms, meaning that the conductors tested are open-circuit.

The scary thing is, ring-final circuits can still function as normal when a single live-conductor is open-circuit, presenting a danger of over-current on the remaining conductors. Conversely radial-final circuits will not function when a single live-conductor is open-circuit, resulting in a relatively safer mode of failure.

Check between all terminations to identify the fault.
 
Just a thought - and I have read this all late - what about paying an electrician with some experience to visit your home and do the work with you, using your test kit, and thereby providing you with some 'words from the wise' and consolidation of what you have learned but not much practiced yet? Money well spent I would have thought and perhaps someone to refer to at a later date. You can show him your certificates and explain the course you did to him. But this approach would provide you with some self-confidence with your test kit and interpreting wiring.
 
Kewtech meters show 19.99 for an open circuit. It sounds to me that it's two radials rather than a ring circuit and thats's why it's been protected by a 20A breaker, had it been an open circuit ring circuit I would have expected to see a 32A MCB instead. Awful job been done there with that wiring.
 
Kewtech meters show 19.99 for an open circuit. It sounds to me that it's two radials rather than a ring circuit and thats's why it's been protected by a 20A breaker, had it been an open circuit ring circuit I would have expected to see a 32A MCB instead. Awful job been done there with that wiring.
 

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