“How many times have you seen this” was not referring to how rare it might be, quite the contrary. I have seen this many times but never where a voltage indicator failed on all reference points, line to line, lines to neutral and lines to earth.
Electricians roulette, using a two pole tester such as a Megger which gives a single pole voltage indication rather than a test lamp that needs two points of contact should shorten the odds of what I work out to be eighteen tests failing, by finding one live point of contact.
“How many times have you seen this” was not referring to how rare it might be, quite the contrary. I have seen this many times but never where a voltage indicator failed on all reference points, line to line, lines to neutral and lines to earth.
Electricians roulette, using a two pole tester such as a Megger which gives a single pole voltage indication rather than a test lamp that needs two points of contact should shorten the odds of what I work out to be eighteen tests failing, by finding one live point of contact.
