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Octopus
If its the small user guide use it as kindle. Contact Metrel as they have a much more detailed book available for you to print out!
If its the small user guide use it as kindle. Contact Metrel as they have a much more detailed book available for you to print out!
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overskilled
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Engineer54
Hmmm, I'm just wondering what you do for the rest of your testing requirements like ELI, RCD testers etc?? To be honest, i don't think i've ever known a qualified journeyman electrician, not to have his own test equipment, least of all an IR meter. On a day to day basis, i can't see how an electrician can operate or get by without one, if for nothing else, the need for fault finding operations.
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Octopus
Never mind the qualified ones not having a MFT, its those on here, who are very obviously doing part time electrics with out the tester or the knowledge of how to interpret the readings and results.
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overskilled
Last kit was provided by work when I worked in IT, since going SE, almost all the stuff I've done has been subcontract refit (replace this broken heater/fan - fixed wiring tested by another company, if any tools needed to complete the job, hire it, send us the invoice and we'll pay for it) or just replacing sockets/light switches, nothing thats frequently needed the testing kit and therefore until I got the metrel, hasn't justified the cost of buying the kit over hiring.
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Octopus
So you've got in The Arms without owning a MFT and thinking you can cope without one. Madness.
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Engineer54
I'm sorry, but i just can't get my head around any electrician, be they employed where test equipment is provided or not, in not having his own personal basic test equipment!! Personally i've had my own personal test equipment all the way from my very early training days, up until the present day, and always found i needed it too, even if just for personal use on my own properties etc, or when helping friends, neighbours and family out. Basically, if i was seeing myself as a working electrician, I'd feel naked and/or vulnerable without it.
I now have more test equipment, than i will probably ever use again, but it's always there if i do.
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overskilled
Trust me, it hasn't been through choice, getting binned by previous employer unexpectedly and scrabbling to keep a roof over my head and finding work wasn't the most fun nor easiest experience. When I needed the kit, the company I was subbing for covered the cost, which was one less thing to stress over.
I now have my own MFT kit, In an ideal world my phone would be ringing its head off and I'd have a new megger MFT to use.
Last job it was something that was done as needed, work provided the kit, my main work field was maintaining desktop machines and servers along with various other bits and pieces.
Trust me, I think I've lost quite a bit hair over this period, enough I considered applying for an IT role in Iraq, rethought that though given the role came with an armed security detail...I kinda fancy living beyond my next birthday and avoiding being beheaded on al jazeera
money was insane though something like x thousand US a week (I think it was close to $9K a week), flights and accomodation etc covered also.
If there weren't unavoidable commitments here, I would be looking for work overseas, I have work rights in Canada, just the move cost is eye watering and their IT industry is increasingly offshored also and difficult to access.
I'm just trying to make the best of things, I NEVER put a customer or anyone else in danger and I've walked away from offers of work as the customer was dead set on doing things the wrong way, I'd rather starve than put others at risk.
I now have my own MFT kit, In an ideal world my phone would be ringing its head off and I'd have a new megger MFT to use.
Last job it was something that was done as needed, work provided the kit, my main work field was maintaining desktop machines and servers along with various other bits and pieces.
Trust me, I think I've lost quite a bit hair over this period, enough I considered applying for an IT role in Iraq, rethought that though given the role came with an armed security detail...I kinda fancy living beyond my next birthday and avoiding being beheaded on al jazeera
money was insane though something like x thousand US a week (I think it was close to $9K a week), flights and accomodation etc covered also.If there weren't unavoidable commitments here, I would be looking for work overseas, I have work rights in Canada, just the move cost is eye watering and their IT industry is increasingly offshored also and difficult to access.
I'm just trying to make the best of things, I NEVER put a customer or anyone else in danger and I've walked away from offers of work as the customer was dead set on doing things the wrong way, I'd rather starve than put others at risk.
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Marvo
If money is an issue why not shop around for the older second hand individual Robin testers. There's nothing wrong with them, they're just not trendy or fashionable. I'd take the Robin separates over the all in one MFT's any day, I have a couple of Robin testers that I still use regularly, they won't synchronise with you Ipad or your Twitter account so the kids today aren't interested in them but they still work well and do the job after >20 years of service.
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overskilled
I ended up buying a metrel instaltest 61557 secondhand, that as far as I'm aware does everything I need it do (and possibly more)
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and i've still got the neon screwdriver that came with my first set of draper insulated screwdrivers in 1971, so there.
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Engineer54
And a very integral bit of test kit it was too in those days. ..lol!!
First voltage tester was the old Drummond test lamp, but don't think i've still got that... My very first IR meter was the old ever faithful wind-up Wee Megger, (second hand from my uncle, and may have been second hand when he got it lol!!) and the first ELI meter was an analogue Japanese jobby by Kyoritsu (or something like that). I still have both of them somewhere too. In those day's anything Japanese was considered out and out crap, same as is now thought of anything Chinese. How times change!! lol!!
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Marvo
I have several Kyoritsu testers and they're all outstanding, all a few decades old but obviously built to last..
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rocker
metrel instaltest 61557 for 70 quid ain't half bad! Worth getting for the work experience lad at that price!
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SirKit Breaker
you trying to say i don't know how to use my neon screwdriver properly, or i dont know how to carryout safe isolation with my voltstick. Murdoch i am a professional, give me some credit:coolgleamA:.
Cheers............Howard
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