Volt stick - do you use them?

[Adam W]

This one?
What happens if you find a live t&e? Does it glow purple?

 

[ringer]

Ah has anyone seen the new volt stick by fluke has a built in led torch and glows red when it finds a phase clever bit is it glows blue when it finds a neutral. I'll post a pic when I get chance

yeah - very funny. And you forgot to add that it also glows green when detecting earth leakage

LDV2 Volt Light

It actually turns blue when about 1-5 inches from a voltage source, then red when less than an inch away.

 

[High Tower]

yeah - very funny. And you forgot to add that it also glows green when detecting earth leakage

LDV2 Volt Light

It actually turns blue when about 1-5 inches from a voltage source, then red when less than an inch away.

Oh feck

I really should start reading instructions

By default it does do what I said it obviously isn't what it was designed to do lol

 

[mogga]

lol u gettin all excited there hightower

 

[High Tower]

Yea lol

Took out of packet all excited, tested on set of meter tails, phase lights up red neutral lights up blue

How pleased was I, instructions straight in the bin unread.

Dooh!

 

[ringer]

High Tower, with harmonised colours, they ought to have made it brown for live, not red, don't you think?

Now if someone really could make that work .... (runs off to make a filing at the patents office) ....

 

[mayfair]

Use it daily .......trust it for live testing NO WAY JOSE great to hang of a ceiling rose when you have 20 unmarked mcb's

 

[lemau]

hye everyone ...my suggestion,you don't use the VOLT STICK...it not accurate and sometime make we confius about voltage detection...for smart job i suggest you use the ultimate and simple instrument a multimeter....it can tell we the actual voltage reading This device never let me down

 

[robsparky1975]

I have my fluke voltstick,very handy at times,would not use a multimeter though,have you seen the size of the prongs!!!!!!!!!not fused and deffo not gs38 tips a recipe for disaster

 

[High Tower]

hye everyone ...my suggestion,you don't use the VOLT STICK...it not accurate and sometime make we confius about voltage detection...for smart job i suggest you use the ultimate and simple instrument a multimeter....it can tell we the actual voltage reading This device never let me down

My suggestion is you use spell check

So what you are saying is that to test a solid cable for the presence of voltage you would isolate, split cable, re energise, test and then JB the cable......... Great idea I'll just continue using my volt stick

 

[robsparky1975]

If they are used for the job they are intended to do,they are a good tool

 

[thebassman]

Hi There

Never trust them, all the ones i have tried if you rub the tip on your overalls it lights up!!!!!!!! A electrician who works for a local company used one to check that swa cables that were cut down a manhole were dead he used one and said cable was dead..............Labourer went down manhole and was almost killed cables were still live.
Our Select inspector said they should not be used all testing should be done with 2 probe device and a proving unit.

Danny

 

[Sintra]

The moral of the volt stick is never use to prove dead that's madness.

 

[High Tower]

The moral of the volt stick is never use to prove dead that's madness.

Couldn't agree more and that has been re-illiterated time and again int the posts, but they have so many other uses

 

[Mark_Burgess]

Hmm, use my Fluke T140 to filter through the bunch of wires at the terminals to find the only one that is live, or volt stick to find it fast and verify with the T140 after?

VOLT STICK every day!!