Earth Continuity on Kettle

[MarkieSparkie]

Or a cheap bottle of malt vinegar from the supermarket.

Use distilled (white) vinegar mate it doesn't leave that horrible brown stain that you often get with malt vinegar.

 

[Grizzly01]

I would say be careful when you're doing the IR test...

The wander lead doesn't play any part in a Class I IR test, so wouldn't need to be held against anything for the IR test to complete.

... but if the sides were metallic you'd be able to clip onto it.

There are many models of kettle, Class I, which have metallic bodies that are not earthed.
This is how they are designed, however, and shouldn't be failed out of hand.
A Class I kettle should always have an earthed element/heating plate, though.

 

[Patman]

Best way, without scraping hands etc. - Just clip earth lead onto long bladed screwdriver. Push hard onto base plate - @ 25A it might fizz a bit, but gets results.

 

[Adam W]

The wander lead doesn't play any part in a Class I IR test, so wouldn't need to be held against anything for the IR test to complete.

No but if the body of the kettle were metal (which in this case it isn't otherwise there would be somewhere to clip the wander lead when doing the earth continuity) you'd get 500v on the body of the kettle, so care should be exercised.

 

[oldtimer]

re. limescale. those kettle descalers just don't work. brick acid ( HCl ) from builders' merchants, £4.60 for 5l. cuts the mustard on limescale.

Like Part P!sh we don't have limescale up her either