EICR results question

[Murdochcat]

I always told sellers not to bother with EICRs

 

[ericmark]

To find the suspect socket, I would simply plug in my loop impedance tester, and one would quickly find at least area of the fault, but although easy for an electrician for a DIY without the loop impedance tester, this would present a problem, so question is with comments made, is he an electrician?

 

[pete01]

To find the suspect socket, I would simply plug in my loop impedance tester, and one would quickly find at least area of the fault, but although easy for an electrician for a DIY without the loop impedance tester, this would present a problem, so question is with comments made, is he an electrician?

On a small ring like this would a loop test reveal much?

 

[ipbr21054]

The electrician did the test and left.
I see the report & see on the quote how long apparently it’s going to take.

I’m keen to look do it myself and to not lay them.

Hence why I ask if there is a toll so when I plug in I know which socket it is without doing all of them.

Then one less job for him.

 

[endecotp]

Hence why I ask if there is a toll so when I plug in I know which socket it is without doing all of them.

There isn't a plug-in device that can help with this.

In principle you can use a multimeter to measure the resistance between earth pins from one socket to the next, but the difficulty is that these resistances are all rather small - multimeters don't have much resolution at those values - and you will probably need long leads. If you have a multimeter and would like to try anyway, let us know and someone will suggest what to do.

 

[ipbr21054]

I have a multimeter but leads are say 1 ft

 

[endecotp]

I have a multimeter but leads are say 1 ft

That sounds unusually short!