This tester has been designed to detect alternating voltages in low voltage range up to 250 volts with respect to earth potential.
Suitable for trade and industry professionals.
Tested according to DIN 57680-6, GS, CE compliant.
Each tool individually tested at 10,000 V AC and approved for 1,000 V AC.
Thanks to Pricehipster
Tried and I forgot to count after that
Try 11KVA lol I accidentally tripped a transformer doing that but at least I am better at counting
Yeah, because you're forced to do it in your head due to a lack of fingers…
You learn to count down from 9
Why not use tongue..
The missed an opportunity here…
Wiha 42969
@Jimothy Wongingtons - a new kit for your EDC?
$4,230.01
Another missed opportunity. Could have doubled up.
Honestly … yeah I’d be having a long talk with sales team about this
@Jimothy Wongingtons: No Cable Ties! :(
On a side note, I noticed Aldi had Reusable cable ties recently. I have been buying coloured ones off Temu. So useful, and less wasteful - Ideal for Camping, but ask Temu in advance to delist Aramex, as I have done
I am not an electrician by trade. Just wondering how is this tool compared to an 'ordinary' Digital Multimeter (let's say Ozito 300V 10A Digital Multimeter $18.98 @ Bunnings).
(I have been using a Digital Multimeter to test voltages in live circuits for years.)
Pros and Cons?
Easier to handle I guess, you only have one 'probe' instead of 2 and the results are right in front of you as opposed to a multimeter on the end of a couple of cables.
I prefer NCV tester myself. Many multimeters have it built in these days
Although they’re supposedly only for testing circuits, I’ve never seen any electrician not use the same tool to wedge open plastic clips, screw and unscrew connectors and everything else you’d use a flathead for.
Could use it as a secondary check if also using multimeter.
Coming from family of european sparkies - very useful and very different. (and very rare here in Australia)
If a circuit is broken on neutral, ordinary multimeter will not see any voltage (which is basically a difference of electric potential). But this will light up whenever it touches active conductor, even though there is no circuit, because it compares against ground, basically using your body as a capacitor.
Wondering this too. I imagine it's slightly less fiddly to use?
Otherwise no point, might as well get something that is actually non contact
I think maybe with motorbike or car and you have a big bundle of wires and trying to diagnose issues. This could be slightly quicker for some.
Is there a tool to test if there is power to the powerpoint ? I don't need to know the voltage, just to test if the wire inside a powerpoint is live or not.
Use a "non contact voltage tester" instead
Can you show me a link to see how they look like ? We were trying to change the double power point ourselves as one of the switch button was stuck. I did switch off the power before we pull the power point plate out but would be good to test to make sure the wires have no power before we cut it and reconnect to new one.
Mate if you can't test to see if a circuit is dead you really shouldn't be working with electricity.
if you are not sure what you are doing,, (it seems like you are).. probably don't do it..
Haha wow
Just use a plug in night light or something similar. Or if you are having trouble with an appliance plug in a different one. If they both don't work then it's safe to assume there's something going on with the GPO.
Though not safe to assume there is no voltage there, just not enough to power whatever you plugged in to it.
Well if there's not enough current to light up an LED I doubt there's be enough to kill you. :)
@EightImmortals: Unless of course there is a break in the neutral line, in which case the nightlight won't come on, but there could very easily be 240V on the active line.
The person you are replying to clearly isn't familiar enough with mains wiring to recognise this sort of risk themselves and your advice is liable to give them a false sense of security that the wiring is entirely safe when your test hasn't actually established that.
@EightImmortals: The earthing pin is irrelevant. A break in the neutral line will stop any appliance from working even though there is a voltage on the active line, regardless of whether or not the appliance is earthed. What exactly are you measuring with the multimeter? If you say between active and neutral, then again a break in the neutral line wouldn't show the voltage. If you say active and earth, then what's to guarantee that the earth is even connected to anything?
In any case, the risk isn't to me. I obviously would have my doubts, I own a multimeter, I know how to use it, and I know to bring over a neutral from a known good outlet if I need to. The person you are replying to obviously has none of that knowledge and probably doesn't own a multimeter. That's the person you who you told to "Just use a plug in night light".
You didn't say "plug in a nightlight, if that doesn't work then test it with a specialised tool or call an electrician" you said "Just use a plug in night light…if there's not enough current to light up an LED I doubt there's be enough to kill you". That is bad advice.
doesn't sound like he will be pulling the GPO off the wall
Read their next comment:
I did switch off the power before we pull the power point plate out but would be good to test to make sure the wires have no power before we cut it and reconnect to new one
"cut it"…they don't even realise that the wires screw into the outlet, they are going to CUT the wires off. Want to place a bet on whether they own properly insulated wire cutters, or whether they are going to hack at it with a pair of metal scissors?
Regardless of what the comment you are replying to may or may not have implied about what they were planning, suggesting that a nightlight is an effective way to test for dangerous voltages is putting people at risk. Maybe the person you were replying to would call a sparky, but who else is reading your comments? What were they planning to do? How might those plans change now that they know the plug is "100% safe" since it won't power their desk lamp?
Wow.. 4x1star reviews
Yes, https://www.bunnings.com.au/deta-power-outlet-tester-plug_p4…
Buy from somewhere cheaper though, they have cranked up the margin on this considerably
My extension cable has an LED at the end similar to the item in your link, can I just use that instead?
Sure, or your bedside table lamp works too, anything you can plug in really 😅
There are a bunch of comments suggesting this type of thing. Lamps, status LEDs, etc. can show that power is present, but they can't prove it isn't. There are various ways that wiring can be faulty that will result in appliances (and extension cord LEDs) not working while dangerous voltages are still present.
This is not equivalent to a voltage tester. It will help you confirm that an outlet is wired correctly, or detect certain types of faults, but it won't confirm that an outlet is completely off and safe to work on.
If someone were to (for example) wire active to all 3 pins on an outlet, this wouldn't light up at all, it would behave exactly the same as if there were no power.
The point of this device is that if you are working with power you probably need a screwdriver. And this is that screwdriver you need, and will have with you, plus it tests to see if the circuit is live when you touch the circuit. Like undoing the screw the holds the wire. It warns you when it didn't occur to you that you needed to be warned.
Whereas a non-contact tester is something you need to carry as well as the tools you need to do the job, and probably won't have with you unless you think you need it. Which of course you never will, because everyone thinks they've disconnected the power before they start working on it.
Just spend another $15 or so and buy a non contact detector. I use a Klein A-NCVT1XT Probably not as good as a $100 Fluke detector, but it works.
Also, a tip I got from our electricians when I was still on the tools, regardless of what you think, always check any tester on a circuit you know that works before using them on a potentially faulty circuit.
Also, a tip I got from our electricians when I was still on the tools, regardless of what you think, always check any tester on a circuit you know that works before using them on a potentially faulty circuit.
I agree.
The only thing with this one is I don't think it has an audible beeper. Perhaps you can confirm.
Having owned marshall amps over the yrars, i don't trusy my hearing. Lol.
Fair enough, my hearing is not the best either :)
I have heard that if you use your finger to test voltage it makes you smarter at maths