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Help needed with a safe electrical isolation check please
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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 462118" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>It can be helpful to approach any electrical task with the assumption that everything is dangerous and faulty until you have proved otherwise. An appliance wired with no earth and reverse polarity may have been 'working' before you arrived or opened the cover. So until you have proved polarity, earth continuity and safe isolation there can be potential danger lurking. Get it wrong and it could kill you in less than half a second. Don't assume anything and don't take anyone else's word that something is safe for you to put your screwdrivers and fingers into.</p><p></p><p>Doc H. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 462118, member: 1607"] It can be helpful to approach any electrical task with the assumption that everything is dangerous and faulty until you have proved otherwise. An appliance wired with no earth and reverse polarity may have been 'working' before you arrived or opened the cover. So until you have proved polarity, earth continuity and safe isolation there can be potential danger lurking. Get it wrong and it could kill you in less than half a second. Don't assume anything and don't take anyone else's word that something is safe for you to put your screwdrivers and fingers into. Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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