Well done Joe, much appreciated.

Excellent vid, thank you for your thoroughness!

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to help. If there is something else you would like to see that was not covered in these two videos, feel free to ask.

@arduinoversusevil2025

6 жыл бұрын

hahahaha "not covered" he says!

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

Cover: deal with (a subject) by describing or analyzing its most important aspects or events.

@tuxontour

6 жыл бұрын

In my not so humble opinion that voltage detecting plaything would be only useable if the sensor is relocated in to the tip (for AvE it is more sensitive so I heard). In most cabinets I worked on, the cableing is run as short as possible thrue air so it looks more tidy that makes the voltage sense useless.

@scabthecat

3 жыл бұрын

Until it pops !

Thanks Joe another great start to my day haha. Alex.

Thanks for the video.

thanks joe

Nice, within two minutes of me watching the ending to Part 1. :D

I know its an old video. I appreciate your efforts. Handheld insulation testers seem to be limited to 1-2 mA based on the ones I have used. As far as published ranges of fatal currents it varies based on many safety classes etc. over the years, I'm certainly not an expert in this area. 10mA is in the beginning of the range of muscle contraction where you cannot let go. 70mA is the beginning of heart problems. 5A is in the range of an electric chair. Certainly makes you wonder how the "experts" acquired this information.

@joesmith-je3tq

2 жыл бұрын

I really don't know the history behind it. I bet there are some good stories.

Thanks Joe for explaining this. I love this meter. It works great. I really don't think it was necessary for them to design the touch plate. The only time I would use it is in a old house with no grounding conductor. Any other applications I would use the black lead to ground the meter to any grounded metal. In every commercial and industrial applications there is plenty of grounded material around.

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

I can understand why they would design in the touch plate if the non-contact detection worked. Sadly, this whole feature, IMO is not good enough. It's not as bad as it looked in the video with the person trying to use it with the Klein current breakout adapter and could be used in some cases. It's just not what I would consider good enough.

@tonyrossi3151

6 жыл бұрын

joe smith I just used it yesterday to verify that overhead service conductors were still energized even though house meter was turned off remotely. I was able to verify 120 phase voltage when standing on an insulated ladder in the middle of the back yard. It was excellent because I didn't have to open the panel or climb on the house top.

@scabthecat

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonyrossi3151 To be fair Tony, your experience of the T6 is reminiscent of a journalist soft balling questions to make a politician look good.

Very interesting,

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

I was asked about using the T6 with a VFD and have posted about a few more tests here. www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hear-kitty-kitty-kitty-nope-not-that-kind-of-cat/2525/

@Finntheweekendwarrior

6 жыл бұрын

I will check this out

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This is very interesting as I had a massive shock from the rear grounding from my Fluke T6 and did not feel well at all for some 2-3 days after, and ended up needing cardioversion (my heart reset) in hospital. But I think I was lucky as it was only at 120v DC (EV bike battery to the controller)

@joesmith-je3tq

3 жыл бұрын

I assume there is a lawsuit pending. I am very interested in following the suit so please keep us informed.

@joesmith-je3tq

3 жыл бұрын

If you have not filed a suit against them (which I am not sure why you wouldn't), I assume your attorney or the insurance company has been in contact with them. Can you provide any details on their response?

@hardergamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@joesmith-je3tq I'm in the UK so not the same over here, but I have a "No win no fee" Solicitors looking into it for a product liability compensation claim, but the courts are closed till the end of the year from Covid and then a 3-year backlog of court cases waiting to be heard in England, we are on full lockdown here and can't even leave our homes for most things, but my solicitor has written to Fluke UK and we are waiting on testing the meter. I will let you no more as I do.

@joesmith-je3tq

3 жыл бұрын

@@hardergamer Was your meter turned over to Fluke for testing, or some third party? I bet a lot of people would be very interested in seeing that report. How were you using the meter at the time you received the injury? From your initial post, I assume you were touching the rear ground plate but what else? I've tried to find where anyone has filed a suit but no luck. Yours may be the first. Looks like they are still listing on their site as well.

Hello Joe, I have a number of Fluke meters i don't like the Fluke hanging strap with the magnet I want to glue a magnet to the back of my meters so I can hang it on the side of equipment will this affect the operation of the meters ? thanks Scott

@joesmith-je3tq

2 жыл бұрын

I suggest you contact Fluke with your question. I the few meters I have looked at, one used unshielded latching relays that could be effected.

10:25 what do you actually use to tell you if a wire is live or not? Do you do a preliminary search with a non-contact device first and then with a proper multimeter? Do you have any recommendations for no-contact voltage tester?

@joesmith-je3tq

2 жыл бұрын

I am not an electrician and have no training in that area. My recommendation if you are working with mains if get proper training. As the people who work in these fields.

@qpSubZeroqp

2 жыл бұрын

@@joesmith-je3tq good point. I'm not an electrician either but sometimes I like to do my own electrical work around the house like changing switches and outlets just very basic stuff

@joesmith-je3tq

2 жыл бұрын

@@qpSubZeroqp I also do that. We use 120V and I typically use a house lamp to check it (or what ever else I happen to have).

@qpSubZeroqp

2 жыл бұрын

@@joesmith-je3tq that's pretty good

@joesmith-je3tq

2 жыл бұрын

@@qpSubZeroqp It low impedance and readily available. I can test it in a live outlet first. Nothing I need a meter for.

Im sure its totally and completely safe, but something about exposed metal i can touch on a meter gives me the shivvers I would feel better if it just did not come with leads at all and was just a standalone non-contact meter

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt there is much of anything that is completely safe.

@OneBiOzZ

6 жыл бұрын

Well yeah

Look like you're going to have to do the final test with an actual human.

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

I figured the 1K was very low for a human.

joe 1.2M ohm or 12 M ohm ?

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

It's actually closer to 1.4M if you want to split hairs. I doubt there are many electricians that would be too concerned with this.

Well better do it with LED's then a real human and surely if someone buy's this clamp meter and uses everyday on electrical boards they will have feedback... The first minutes i thought that you would do that experience instead of the LED's... Thanks for bring this tests.

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

From the lack of any feedback when using my hand in the first part of the testing, I don't think using the hand for the second part would have been any more educational than the LEDs. At least with the LEDs you can see something happen.

@MalagasOnFire

6 жыл бұрын

it was on the 46:02 on from the first video your hand shaked above 2.6KV. With the LED's was a safer and also educational choice to get a visual feedback from the test. But it would be interesting if someone that bought one of these t6-600 and also report. The idea of the clamp meter with voltage / current on the inductive sensor makes suitable for troubleshooting electric boards ( 110 ~240AC)

AvE sure stirred the KZread pot with this meter. It doesn't seem like such a lethal killing machine to me though.

@joesmith-je3tq

6 жыл бұрын

I was not impressed with Fluke's video but I really don't know what capacity they have in the USA anymore. For safety, the T6 has been certified which is more than many of handheld meters on the market. If Fluke starts making design changes and not keeping up with the certifications or not certifying them at all, I would be concerned. Yes, I know my videos for this meter were pretty boring. It seems I have been running a better class of meters lately. Even that 87V wouldn't do anything. We really need to run a nice cheap meter again.