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Potentially Dangerous Child Socket Protectors. A Reminder.

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    Oh, the irony!


    Regards


    BOD
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    Thanks for that!


    Part of the problem is how they’re sold to new parents as an essential safety measure. What new parent wouldn’t just buy this pack and think they now have a safer home?

     

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreambaby-Safety-Value-White-Pieces/dp/B00859RC2M/ref=asc_df_B00859RC2M/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=255468571917&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8796538192432296109&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007901&hvtargid=pla-423231510438&psc=1

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    Worrying to see the "electrician" insert the test probe into the "live" outlet first leaving the other end of the tester probe at 230 V before putting it into the neutral..............


    Ah, but it is a "safety" video...............


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    BOD
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    Not once, but habitually at 4:16, 5:36, 6:14 and 6:31.................


    Perhaps it could be followed up with one showing how to use test equipment safely? 

    https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/gs38.pdf


    Regards


    BOD
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    GS38... so easy to find, yet so often misinterpreted.


    I've removed the factory fitted 'GS38 compliant probe covers' (irony quotes) from my (catIV) multimeter, and installed rubber sleeves (hellerman sleeves are awesome for this)


    Do the same job, preventing drawing an arc accidentally, but they get out of the way when probing terminal screws in a DB . The original hard plastic ones left a miserable 1mm of conical probe tip that stood NO chance of maintaining reliable contact with a cross/flat combination screws, and removing them derated the probes to cat II !
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    perspicacious:

    Worrying to see the "electrician" insert the test probe into the "live" outlet first leaving the other end of the tester probe at 230 V before putting it into the neutral..............




    Well, he poked it into the earth first, so why didn't he get 230 V when he put the other end into line?


    I thought that those toddlers were smashing - 3 years old? If ever you want evidence that those things are nonsense, there you have it!


    The decor was substandard and I hope that, but doubt that the socket was isolated before the film was made. (I didn't watch all of it.)


     

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    When my children were young I used to ask them to remove the covers for me as they could do it quicker than me. I have also replaced a few sockets where a pin has  broken off the plastic cover and is holding the shutters open. I worked on the basis it was cheaper to replace than to try and get the pins out and then possibly find the contacts are loose. 


    I do spread the word but I am only a thick electrician what do I know in comparison to the H&S advisors, journalists and manufacturers recommending these things?

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