Originally Posted By: brian winkle
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Oh well you can never have too many toys…er I mean tools.
Oh well you can never have too many toys…er I mean tools.
Originally Posted By: brian winkle
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Actually the good thing about these testers is that they will never give you a ghost reading since they don’t pick up induced voltage. Also they don’t use batteries.
Originally Posted By: jpope
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I don’t need much of an excuse to buy more tools. . .
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Originally Posted By: fbartlo
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with that pesky extra wire…
I carry a volt-ohmmeter in case of weird situations. It has come in handy in situations such as one case where water leaks had occurred above wiring. Also inspected one house, and a thunderstorm rolled in, a brownout occured, and water was getting into the panel. 
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge
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| brian winkle wrote: |
| Oh well you can never have too many toys...er I mean tools.  |
i've got a l.e.d. volt stick that does a cool trick. if you push the clip and touch the hot, it lights up (as it should), then i tell my newby that i've been elicrticuted so many times, that i have 120vac in my blood and skin. then i pinch the clip, touch my finger and bing, it lights up. to prove my theory, i pinch the clip, touch his finger with the blade end, and nothing. then we laugh, he's amused, and i tell everone else it's because the l.e.d. lights up with any a/c or d/c voltag and when i touch my own finger, it's reading the d/c voltage from it's own batteries. then we laugh at the newby. 
Originally Posted By: fbartlo
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(chuckling…) Good one, Jay.
That's along the lines of how I test 2-hole outlets for polarity using a basic LED probe tester. Gotta remember to use that line ...
Originally Posted By: jhugenroth
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I prefer the Knopp. I think it was about 35 bucks at the electrical supply house.