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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Sorry for the delay... You seem like an intelligent fellow. Another common trolling tactic - provoke an argument, and then while u 'heroically' and self righteously 'try to restrain urself' while answering the question, get some apparently random goon to post a comment like that in an...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Notice how, now that Johnny realises that he is well and truly cornered, he pretends that the reason he is heroically running away, like a dog with its tail between its legs, is because of something i previously did and not because he has finally realised that i will not let him out of the trap...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    As i thought, it doesn't answer the question at all - if a live C-test is done w/o me causing a short and with the probes properly attached etc.. etc.. how could the problem be caused? Stop trying to change the subject - the answer is 'it should not've caused the problem' Say it :lol...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Ha haaa, Pinocchio, :lol: That's what i like to see, someone so cornered that he can make no attempt to answer the question :lol: :lol: I've got u where i want u Pinocchio (and comrades), and i mean to press the advantage. Answer please :lol: :lol:
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Well that may explain why the meter is fine, but please explain how that causes a 32a Mcb to trip and a cooker to meltdown. How does the protection of the meter equal a bang at the cooker and fuse board? Thanks Banal
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Well, why am i not surprised that there aren't so many comments on that one. Notice John has completely avoided the question (like a professional liar). This was my original question Johnny boy, and i want u or someone else to answer it. How could live C-testing, w/o a short being caused...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Fellas don't think i haven't noticed the attempt to avoid answering the question: How does live continuity testing cause a 30 - 32 amp fuse to blow and a cooker to melt down? As Spark123's, SecureSpark's and Mike's answers (among others) indicate - it doesn't Don't bother reverse...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    We're gonna have to clear something up here. I'm well aware that my comments (especially my earlier ones) revealed some ignorance. That's because i read up on this stuff 2 1/2 years ago and then pretty much forgot a afair bit of the detail (as u do when u cover something for the first time and...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Cheers Spark, I never put an ohmmeter across anything, some others here seem intent on using the terms 'continuity tester' and 'ohmmeter' interchangably and thereby confuse the issue - inaccurate readings are therefore not a problem as i've explained above. How can a continuity tester 'damage...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Thank you John, i don't remember saying that i hadn't read the instructions, and there's a good reason for that. More later
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Mikey, Mikey, such bold faced dishonesty i've thankfully seldom witnessed. As you say the posts are there to be read and they prove w/o any doubt whatsoever that what I say is true The very next post… Mike knew I was testing live. And as in my immediately previous post – How you can...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    There u go - Mike was completely aware that i was continuity testing with the power on and said it 'shouldn't cause an issue' When informed that i certainly had the probes connected properly, Mike then thinks the idea that there could be a flash-bang incident is so odd that it would require...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    C'mon Sheds - don't be like that. Why don't u criticise all the spelling mistakes made on here simply because people couldn't be bothered correcting them. Ok Rocket - i'll grant that it's not a 'test', lets call it an 'action' then. Why aren't the results of my 'action' the same. I'm almost...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Yes Rocket, believe it or not i have. U keep goin on and on about how it's not a good test which i've accepted. Ok the RCD thing, so maybe property B wasn't RCD protected? Right, that's grand. So why are two different circuits on property A, which is RCD protected, giving different results...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Right, so Mike and Rocket are in complete disagreement but i'm the only one who thinks that's strange, given that both are equally dogmatic in their opposite conclusions. Dandy-O Thank u John and Sheds, i heard u the first time (regarding safety) and haven't done any testing since...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    That's basically answered my initial question, there should not have been a flash bang, no matter power on or off, regardless of dodgy readings - no flash bang - as you indicate - it doesn't make sense. I know that the current testing socket is something that i have no use for and have never...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Ok fellas, i think we'll have to leave it at that, it was 2 or 3 years ago that i bought the meter and read the instructions plus a few other bits in books and on the net and wasn't overly concerned about any health risks based on what i'd read. There's obviously some confusion here and i...
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    Flash-bang with Multimeter?

    Cheers Mik and BAS the probes definitely weren't connected for the current. If i had been testing for voltage with the power on would there then have been a risk of something going wrong? Either way, may i safely conclude that continuity testing can normally be done with the power on or...
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