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That really depends upon what you mean by "electric shock", doesn't it?AIUI the problem is that to test a socket's earth you have to pass some current through it, passing current through a bad earth carries a risk of electric shock. .... That is It's not that the product is faulty, it's the the whole product category carries some risk and that is apparently a risk that fluke's lawyers don't want to take.
As has been said, is it not inevitable that any attempt to test the adequacy of an earth connection (whether by EFLI measurement or less formally) will involve applying a voltage to the local earth/CPC/exposed-c-ps - whether it is done using a "socket tester", a dedicated loop tester, MFT or whatever?Interesting. I wonder how many other socket testers are similarly affected. I have noticed that a lot of them seem to be the same basic products re-badged for different tester brands.
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