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Haha, it was a joke, batteries come with their own meter on them now. The electrician is booked for weekend so hopefully we will get it resolved then.

Thanks for your reply, your advice is much much appreciated. And thank you for assuming that i knew where the earth terminal was on a plug socket. Although I'm sure you will get in trouble for that. I did get a little confused as to why the multimeter might blow up from the earth terminal...

Thanks for your response - but the theory is the same? And just as safe? (Within the boundaries of assuming the person using it knows what they are doing) Regards.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciate any calm and collective response i get on this subject. i would like to understand what and why this is happening. Thats the type of person i am. Im not offended by any and all advice given, that is why i use this forum. What can be offensive in which...

Could ask, in theory, if i stripped an extention down just to the earth wire, left the earth prong on the plug connected to the original plug but removed all other parts including wires and live and natural prongs from the plug, would this constitute as a safe enough earth wire to complete safe...

Im not planning on doing anything at this point. I was just asking the question out of curiosity. As i said at the top of the thread, i will get someone in. As soon as possible, i just wanted to get some sound info to try and safely gage the situation.

I get what you are saying and in some respects you are correct, but wow. I don't think you have any place in this forum or any forum with that attitude. People come on here to chat, the concept is simple and has been working for quite a while. They don't come on to be insulted and belittled. I...

Thanks a lot, this is exactly the info i was looking for, much appreciated. I have nothing near by to get that earth. I just wanted to get some readings. But if i cant achieve that, then thats fine also, could i plug an extension into a plug socket and use that earth? I'm not risking injury...

I have already stated i am getting an electrician, also thanks for showing me how to use google. Its almost like there are no forums to chat to friendly helpful people. Its a good job we only have google to use.

There are three switches in the circuit, 2xdouble and 1xsingle if one earth is not connected would this cause captive coupling? The meter has two ac settings, 600 and 200, if i have it at 600 i get no reading at all. But they way I'm doing is putting the red probe on the earth and the...

i do understand some of it and i was trying to be visually descriptive so it was clear on what i was doing, and prong was a mistake, i know its a probe. Im just not confident that my readings are correct. I confident enough to care about killing myself - i have changed many switches and light...

light on a tester screwdriver from light earth wire on a light switch, that in turn is give a light on the back box and screws. I have looked at all the switches and light fittings that are in the circuit no loose connections with wires, nothing perished, also not sure of how much power is...

so many multi meters to choose from, could some one point me in the correct direction? I would like to keep the cost low but not lose functionality. Please remember this will probably only ever get used a few times in its life span, this will not be a trade tool. Regards.

I will order one today. Thanks.

thank you I will change the switch, as I thought initially that it might intermittent issue, but put it down to faulty bulbs. I will definitely feed back all findings - at the weekend, as when I get home from work it is dark.

hello, thanks for your reply. the lamp or fitting is brand new. the second bulb I tested was taken from a working light. there are no other lights not working. like I said I happy to replace a switch - could one faulty switch stop another from working as well? as a side note; both...

Hello, thanks for the quick reply - The rose is temp. I switched out two bulbs just in case. I checked the connections for bare wire hitting the screws twice, but I will check a third time and feed back. If a switch has broken, wouldn't the other switch still work the light? - I'm...

I know this reply has been a while coming, but I managed to trace the other end of the wire, it took some floorboard pulling and dirty hands, but for some reason was not connected to anything. Thanks for the sound advice, as it makes perfect sense to be sure and safe.

Hello and thanks in advance for any advice. I have a light in my kitchen that has stopped working, I suspected it was the fitting as a gu10 bulb failed and the ends of the bulb fused/snapped off inside one of the fittings. so I disconnected the fitting and replaced it with an out of the...