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Help needed with a safe electrical isolation check please
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 461993" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>First I don't believe ANY electrician would rely on a non contact "pen" type tester to prove dead.</p><p></p><p>Second, what relevance is a socket tester when the boiler is hard wired to a switched FCU?</p><p></p><p>I have had this argument before and it might be worth discussing but I actually had an "engineer" refuse to service the boiler because it was hard wired into an FCU in spite of me telling him how to turn it off at it's local switch AND at the consumer unit, and telling him how to remove the fuse from the FCU and offering to show him with my meter that it is dead. He would only service the boiler when I replaced the FCU for a 13A socket, and put a plug on the flex so he could then unplug the boiler to service it. Complete madness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 461993, member: 6969"] First I don't believe ANY electrician would rely on a non contact "pen" type tester to prove dead. Second, what relevance is a socket tester when the boiler is hard wired to a switched FCU? I have had this argument before and it might be worth discussing but I actually had an "engineer" refuse to service the boiler because it was hard wired into an FCU in spite of me telling him how to turn it off at it's local switch AND at the consumer unit, and telling him how to remove the fuse from the FCU and offering to show him with my meter that it is dead. He would only service the boiler when I replaced the FCU for a 13A socket, and put a plug on the flex so he could then unplug the boiler to service it. Complete madness. [/QUOTE]
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