Recommendations for voltage tester with proving unit

pirate · Mar 3, 2021

I'm very happy with my Fluke T150, (I keep the continuity buzzer "on") and the aforementioned Megger MPU690. I try to discipline myself to prove dead "properly", especially as I get older...I just feel the need for a "ritual". It doesn't matter that it might be "slow" as I am never in a hurry and don't have to rush.
In my younger days the neon screwdriver was all I used, and the non-contact tester was a step forward! I was always cautious, and a bathroom light switched on the neutral made me aware of the inherent, lurking dangers...that was 30 years ago, and I've never forgotten it.

nicebutdim · Mar 3, 2021

pirate said:
I'm very happy with my Fluke T150, (I keep the continuity buzzer "on") and the aforementioned Megger MPU690. I try to discipline myself to prove dead "properly", especially as I get older...I just feel the need for a "ritual". It doesn't matter that it might be "slow" as I am never in a hurry and don't have to rush.
In my younger days the neon screwdriver was all I used, and the non-contact tester was a step forward! I was always cautious, and a bathroom light switched on the neutral made me aware of the inherent, lurking dangers...that was 30 years ago, and I've never forgotten it.

I use a T90 as it does everything I currently need, but keep toying with the idea of taking a T150 from stock. Growing up it always fell on me to fix appliances/electrical issues around the home and proving dead was an alien concept, unless you really weren't certain about isolation of a particular circuit - on those occasions I'd dig out my father's trusty (but unused) 'phase tester' and grit my teeth.

Of late I've disciplined myself into proving dead, but any electrical work I do is on installations that I know inside out and find that old habits die hard. It's high time I redoubled my efforts to carry out this very basic check, given my intended change of career.

Speaking of old habits, I just had a flashback to my first driving lesson and the instructor's reaction when instinct placed my hand on the handbrake as we approached the first corner ?