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I'll subtitle this thread "THE IMPORTANCE OF SAFE ISOLATION"...
In the Jul/Aug Ed. of PE, a guy writes in to slag off a poor installation. I don't think he realised how he also exposed his own poor skills at the same time.
He went to check the wiring of a house and found no cpc in the lighting.
So, without isolating the circuit, he goes to remove the cover from a flu batten. Which just so happens to be live, as the person who fitted it terminated the loop in the earth terminal of the batten....
What a bozo!
What really makes me laugh is that he discovered it was live due to his "test lamp"...could that be a neon screwdriver??....
We are trained when approaching anything made of metal that could be live to test it first with a volt stick.
Unbelievable!
In the Jul/Aug Ed. of PE, a guy writes in to slag off a poor installation. I don't think he realised how he also exposed his own poor skills at the same time.
He went to check the wiring of a house and found no cpc in the lighting.
So, without isolating the circuit, he goes to remove the cover from a flu batten. Which just so happens to be live, as the person who fitted it terminated the loop in the earth terminal of the batten....
What a bozo!
What really makes me laugh is that he discovered it was live due to his "test lamp"...could that be a neon screwdriver??....
We are trained when approaching anything made of metal that could be live to test it first with a volt stick.
Unbelievable!