16-09-2015, 10:21 AM
You are absolutely right regarding cheap test gear, particularly when it can be used with lethal level currents. It's laziness on my part because it's small and always on-hand so has become my go-to item. However, I don't trust it at all, particularly in terms of my safety so I only ever use it with low voltages and very small currents and never fully trust the readings.
On the theme of safety, I do find people of my generation tend to have a much healthier respect for the dangers of electricity than today's youngsters and young adults do. I suspect few people realise that just 100ma can stop a heart and that RCD adaptors won't necessarily save their life because 30 milliseconds of 30A can still be lethal.
On the theme of safety, I do find people of my generation tend to have a much healthier respect for the dangers of electricity than today's youngsters and young adults do. I suspect few people realise that just 100ma can stop a heart and that RCD adaptors won't necessarily save their life because 30 milliseconds of 30A can still be lethal.
