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Having a brain fog moment this morning.

I've just finished installing some new outside lights on a new circuit, and I need to do an RCD Test on the circuit.

The RCD covers this lighting circuit + 3 others, one of which is a radial socket circuit in the garage. I obviously want to make sure that if a fault occurs on the new circuit I've installed it will trip the RCD, but for the life of me I can't remember how to do this for a lighting circuit, or whether I can just plug in my tester on the garage radial and do the RCD test from there on all 4 circuits (The new lighting circuit + the 3 others covered by this RCD).

You do something day in day out, then suddenly you're standing there thinking "S*** I've forgotten how to do it!" in front of a client!
 
Switch of all circuits and test the rcd at the board. Your continuity, insulation resistance, polarity and earth fault loop impedance should verify the safety of the circuit.
in the midst of chaos, common sense makes a revival.
 

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