How GasSafe men test electrical

[John-SJW]

How GasSafe men test electricals:

 

[Strima]

Just a sales pitch and a dangerous one at that.

 

[westward10]

Seems good to me a reading under 1 ohm, good result all safe.

 

[Pete999]

I would never ever use a non contact volt pen for proving anything live or Dead, a bad video gives the wrong impression for safe isolation, no mention of wether the tester was compliant with GS38 either.

 

[loz2754]

I would never ever use a non contact volt pen for proving anything live or Dead, a bad video gives the wrong impression for safe isolation, no mention of wether the tester was compliant with GS38 either.

Yes Pete, I noticed he said compliant leads, but he didn't say what they complied with!

 

[telectrix]

and the next educational video will be......

how to construct your own boiler from scrap materials ( oh bugger British Gas have already done that)

 

[Red Tony]

Did he give it the lick test?

 

[Pete999]

Did he give it the lick test?

No, a sniff test was all that was required

 

[telectrix]

No, a sniff test was all that was required

you mean like with cocaine?

 

[Dartlec]

I would never ever use a non contact volt pen for proving anything live or Dead, a bad video gives the wrong impression for safe isolation, no mention of wether the tester was compliant with GS38 either.

That's what the meter installer used on a recent job to show me that polarity was correct (as well as a plug in socket tester that he took a picture of while plugged in - presumably that counted as his "certificate"...

He did openly admit he wasn't an electrician tbf.

 

[John-SJW]

I would never ever use a non contact volt pen for proving anything live or Dead.

Neither would I. I have too many bad experiences with them.

 

[John-SJW]

What he is doing can be done with a normal decent multi meter. But I suppose it is for men who have little idea of electrics.

 

[Taylortwocities]

What he is doing can be done with a normal decent multi meter. But I suppose it is for men who have little idea of electrics.

And women too, perhaps?

 

[Pete999]

That's what the meter installer used on a recent job to show me that polarity was correct (as well as a plug in socket tester that he took a picture of while plugged in - presumably that counted as his "certificate"...

He did openly admit he wasn't an electrician tbf.

Shouldn't be doing electrical instruction videos if that is the case

 

[John-SJW]

A follow up video:

 

[PEG]

Leave em' alone....due to a lack of bookings,the tribute band "Bad Manors",has been pursuing alternative careers.....

 

[mainline]

What he is doing can be done with a normal decent multi meter. But I suppose it is for men who have little idea of electrics.

Interesting, can you explain how to do an earth loop impedance test using a multimeter ? I'm wondering just in case my MFT dies.
Thanks in advance

 

[davesparks]

Interesting, can you explain how to do an earth loop impedance test using a multimeter ? I'm wondering just in case my MFT dies.
Thanks in advance

I guess it could be done with two multimeters and a mildly dodgy setup.

Connect a load between line and earth, take a few readings and calculate the loop impedance!

 

[mainline]

I guess it could be done with two multimeters and a mildly dodgy setup.

Connect a load between line and earth, take a few readings and calculate the loop impedance!

Why 2 multimeters

I have a feeling that when I put my multimeter on the low ohms range and put it across live and earth
(1) the RCD will trip
(2) the meter will go bang

 

[Jim_e_Jib]

Why 2 multimeters

I have a feeling that when I put my multimeter on the low ohms range and put it across live and earth
(1) the RCD will trip
(2) the meter will go bang

Ohms is not the measurement you need - you wouldn't set your MFT to low ohms to get a loop impedance reading, you'd set it to loop impedance and let it calculate it.

What measurements could you calculate the loop impedance from?