'Megger' (Not) Insulation tester - good buy?

[Yorkie]

Coincidentally when David posted the question about the VC60B+ insulation tester, I had just decided to order one...

It arrived this morning and I have had a play with it.

It looks like it should prove useful!

Andy

I thought I'd resurrect this thread to ask Andrew (or anyone else who has one), in the light of experience, how he's found the Victor insulation tester in use.

Admittedly only having 250V, 500V & 1KV does rather limit its usefulness for our purposes, and like many restorers, I do tend to replace waxies in sight because if they're not yet leaky, the chances are that they will be, so it does rather make the act of testing them a bit pointless.

I know there are restorers who see this as unmethodical, but after maybe 60 or 70 years (sometimes longer), they'll be past their best, and it's one thing if a resistor drifts high in value, but quite another matter if a cap goes leaky and starts plonking DC were we don't want it. True, there are some waxies that can be in such awkward places that if they test OK, then we may prefer to leave them in situ.

I don't want to spark a debate about the merits of one approach or the other, but to ask about the Victor VC60B tester as Amazon have them at £36.99 post free:


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009U...il_1p_1_ti