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As @SL says testing live to neutral with a multimeter is pointless, it won't reveal anything useful because you are only testing at a low voltage, the only time I do a low voltage continuity test like you describe is if I want to see just how bad a fault is, if you get a fault that shows up with...

A lot of the cheaper multi way sockets are downright dangerous, an accident waiting to happen, I've opened several up and to be honest some of the internals leave a lot to be desired, on the more expensive ones the contact tubes are very similar to the ones in a regular socket, fairly chunky...

@SL every rcd/rcbo I install now gets a ramp test, first with no outgoing cables connected and again with the outgoing cables connected and at a socket rather than the board, there are a couple of reasons why I do this. 1) I have on a couple of occasions had new devices that have tripped...

my fuel is really cheap at the moment, 0.00p per litre, I agree with a lot of the comments made though about things that wind you up, particulary ethnicity in adverts, why the grape has almost every advert got a black man and a white woman in it, are they trying to make it look as though mixed...

Just watch your thinking on tripping currents for RCD'S/RCBO'S, most of the ones I've tested trip at anything between 21 and 26 milliamps, so you need to think of that, incidentally which part of Shropshire are you in, anywhere near market drayton?

very similar to this, https://uk.farnell.com/ideal/34-003/fuse-puller-3-4in-to-2-1-2in-diameter/dp/1753010 I must admit I had a lucky one the other week in a factory again caused by complacency, I was trying to remove a damaged cable and my finger brushed over one of the  metal prongs (live)...

Metal head is always a DNO job now for me, especially as they are replacing them anyway, worst one I had was pulling one and the fuse carrier broke in half, luckily I was using the fibreglass pliers at the time, and the gloves.

No worries mate, it makes you a bigger bloke for the apology, Sadly I suspect you may have fallen for all the hype surrounding the short courses, how you'll earn megga bucks quite easily. Sadly they don't tell you about all the money you'll be laying out for tools, test gear, regs books, and a...

it's nice to have something that belonged to a friend, when I'm swearing and cursing trying to untighten something with one of the big spanners I will be imagining Tony doing the very same somewhere with the same spanner. lol

personally i'd do one or the other, either a 13a socket or 4mm sockets, it keeps it smaller, does it do loop values too?

It isn't a case of 'having a go' as you put it, there are ways to do things in this game, just as there are in anything in life, you learn the rules and follow them, in my part of the world Part P isn't so much of a problem, the building control department are more bothered about your skils than...

Here's a bit of info on the company, perhaps they would provide you with the datasheet if you asked them, sorry I can't be more use on this, but it may help. http://tetpl.in/pdf/transformer_reactors_brochure.pdf

He didn't suffer fools gladly and the other thing with him was he'd met so many idiots he found it hard to believe there was intelligent life out there, lol. I remember him telling me about your little chat, ' that Paul isn't bad when you get to know him' he told me, high praise indeed from...

Quite, I had thought, rather naively that ALL political parties would have set aside their differences and worked together on the pandemic, after all it affects everyone, Labour, Tory, or whoever, but no, it all descended into points scoring and slagging each other off! It's the same with a lot...

Over the weekend I got a call from Tony's son, they were clearing out his place and were kind enough to offer me all his tools and test meters, he'd always said he didn't want his gear going to the skips when anything happened to him, he wanted it to be used.Well I drove down today and picked it...

Exactly what I thought, there was nothing in the manual about it needing to be connected to a none RCD supply, I am not too bothered now, I bought it off a guy who was coming off the tools so I got it for about a quarter of the 'new' price, and it had hardly been used.

if you are lucky then the house has an old metal service head, in which case you notify DNO as they have a policy of changing them, be there when they come out to replace it and they will connect up your isolator FOC, had one recently and the engineer even offered to give us an isolator! A lot...

Sidewinder, a couple of points, we've not always got on, you are like me, you can be a bit prickly at times, or as our mate Tony would have said, ' a pain in the arse' lol, but you know your stuff on machinery and the like. The whole thing of taking power from X to power Y is a minefield and...

I already own one of these 'check boxes' and to be honest the biggest pain in the arse was having to install the special socket to use it which makes it's usefullness somewhat limited. For those who haven't used one let me briefly explain how they work, the idea is this, you have your meter...

Years ago I was a volunteer for the Red Cross, we were entitled to claim expenses, such as fuel, but none of us ever did, I gave it up when I found out how much not only the 'big bosses' got paid, but also the guy in charge of my team, put it this way, he'd left an extremely well paid job in the...