My fused test leads.

[Toonlad]

Yesterday i was doing our companies niceic assessment, so prior to the visit im thinking new test leads.
So im all primed ready to go, hits the first site, whips all my gear i am ready to test.
1st test ZE... (usual practices----safe isolation , voltage indicator blah blah blah) About to conduct the test, places my probe on to my line.... no voltage.

Checks again voltage indicator,,, voltage present. Thinking to my self wtf this is friken great. Then i think check my probes, fine before i started but hey, you never know, blown fuse, not only blown but 500mA. AHHHHHHHH. Never thought of checking the rating of them straight out of the packet. Just plugged them in nulled my leads out, and thought yer the inspector will like these apples.

No wonder it kept takeing out with the test current. I had no 10A hrc handy either. Any way the nic guy was more than happy with me using my non fused leads.

Lesson learned end of lol...... All ended Good nic was more than happy.

 

[acat]

Lucky you bet the bottle went a bit


Chris

 

[gaffer]

Just shows the NIC guys are human to!

 

[acvc]

Almost the same thing happened to me last year. I had my inspection at 9 o'clock on the Monday morning, and got my new leads out at 9 o'clock the night before and tried them and just got the trip message. Luckily, I had a sparky mate a couple of mile away who lent me his but I would have been in the poopoo otherwise!