what you think of this model guys, any expierience with this , im interested before i part with hard earned cash thanks
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he might need a linkage tester Tel......hope it can see leakage better than we can see a link.LOL.
no....seems ok...so far...lol....as has been said here already...just keep an eye on the batterys....i suppose anything has a finite lifespan...but lets face it.....a lot of stuff is now made in chinaland...or thereabouts...can you fault it gelensparks for the price
got some leads like that made up for it already guitar...I have tried it on all settings, starting with large loads and going down to a few mA. It works a treat. The only bit that seems a bit flimsy is the plastic cover over the screen, but other than that not bad (just don't expect Megger type build quality).
If you make a flexi ext lead (about 1 metre long) and remove a short length of the sheath, you can then either leave all inner cores exposed to clamp line (for testing loads) and earth (for earth leakage), or you can re-sheath line and neutral with just the earth cable exposed for testing leakage current. Obviously, unsheathed live conductors must be inside a suitable enclosure so up to you how you want to make it safe (if you do).
Probably leakage from a poorly earthed/bonded adjacent property seeking the low impedance parallel path to earth via the good quality earthing/bonding at your installation.Just finished on CU (x2) install in large rambling house and was getting some low IR readings (>0.5M <1.0M) on a couple of circuits.
With everything connected up and all circuits live I put my Di-Log on the main earth and got reading varying between 65mA and 113mA. There are several PCs and main electronics gadgets connected so some earth leakage current is to be expected, but was surprised at level.
When I turned everything off, main switch -all MCBs, and the couple of RCDs - I was still getting ~30-35mA on the main earth. This was a steady reading - not declining, like something was slowly discharging.
I'm baffled. Check D-log was zeroed, etc, but got consistent reading on main earth. BTW - all main bonding to gas and water is good.
Anyone any ideas please?
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