Multimeter?
I need a tool to detect if this is live or not. I'm changing my oven and need to disconnect it, I'll turn the power off but still need to verify its not live before I start taking the cover off. When it was fitted I'm sure he had something he just pointed at it to see if it was live or not. Is that a multimeter?
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Blue61 (13-12-22), GEORGE (13-12-22), MonsterEnergy (13-12-22), Shaun (12-12-22), TightNugs (13-12-22), Tommy stoner (12-12-22)
theres non contact voltage testers
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Your local hardware store will have a pen type meter that you touch the wire and it will tell you if hot or not.
Don't remember what it is called. Circuit tester type thing. Fits in your shirt pocket like a pen.
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I found that cutting the cable with a Stanley knife worked fine. Melted the blade and blew the RCBO but it wasn't live after that.
*cough*
MJ
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They are call ON meters. If you are anything like me, you will need an electrictiction to show you how to use it. Only thing I can use on mine is the Battery and ALT tester, don't have A clue how to use the other parts of it. haha When I work on my elect, I just pull all the fusses and use A flashlight to see what I'm doing.
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ffs!!!! that made me choke.......Originally Posted by MadJohn
LMAO dude! just no.
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Indeed that's the best thing, plenty of this staff on amazontheres non contact voltage testers
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Nice one folks, I'll order one today
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Was a mistake to be fair. When I renovated the house I'm fastidious and pedantic like I am about growing. Everything was done strictly to building and electrical regulation, nothing skimped, top quality materials etc. The problem was the person who owned the house before me wasn't. I'd been super careful and not made any stupid mistakes until this point but I'd "assumed" that all the power points in the room were wired to the same ring. I'd already replaced 4 of the sockets and the 5th was just another socket so without testing it I'd just taken a knife to the cable only to find it was a "rogue" spur that was being fed from the other room the other side of the wall...
I learned just how valuable working to code was that day as I didn't feel a single thing but it did melt a hole in the Stanley blade. Suffice to say I check everything now, even stuff I've wired myself and KNOW it's not live twice before I touch it.
MJ
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a lesson learned right there
Was a mistake to be fair. When I renovated the house I'm fastidious and pedantic like I am about growing. Everything was done strictly to building and electrical regulation, nothing skimped, top quality materials etc. The problem was the person who owned the house before me wasn't. I'd been super careful and not made any stupid mistakes until this point but I'd "assumed" that all the power points in the room were wired to the same ring. I'd already replaced 4 of the sockets and the 5th was just another socket so without testing it I'd just taken a knife to the cable only to find it was a "rogue" spur that was being fed from the other room the other side of the wall...
I learned just how valuable working to code was that day as I didn't feel a single thing but it did melt a hole in the Stanley blade. Suffice to say I check everything now, even stuff I've wired myself and KNOW it's not live twice before I touch it.
MJ
but to be fair this guy turned that into a full youtube job, always makes me laugh
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