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forget its a socket and tell me how would you do the test (cooker point, spur etc ) your drop it forward and your point is really lost as what if the spur contacts are the same etc you would still miss them through routine testing.
An excellent point. Yes testing the socket front is picking up a fault you would never pick up with a fused connection unit to a fixed appliance or whatever. So is failing a socket for excessive Ze+R1+R2 measured at the front a True By The Book Failure or not? Probably not. Do you fail it in practice? Depends on the scenario I think. What is the risk if you don't fail it? A house fire, maybe. A dead family. What is the risk if you do fail it? Maybe an argument, maybe a client who doesn't use you again, maybe (depending on the contract) getting taken to court. This thinking inclines me towards failing it.
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