And run the risk of tickle time if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing lol. Those plug testers are an easy means for a layman to check it. They make ones as cheap as $5, that’s just the one I always have in my pocket as a professional electrician.
Right, I was making a joke and using that as an excuse to link to ElectroBOOM. I didn’t think anyone would take it seriously, but added a /s to my comment.
Way less expensive to get a 10kΩ resistor and put that between earth and live to make sure the GFCI trips. Source
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\s, don’t do this.And run the risk of tickle time if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing lol. Those plug testers are an easy means for a layman to check it. They make ones as cheap as $5, that’s just the one I always have in my pocket as a professional electrician.
I carry a fork that way I can use it for lunch as well
Good idea. It takes forever to clean the scorch marks off of my belly/Prince Albert chain.
What a terrible day to have eyes and imagination
Right, I was making a joke and using that as an excuse to link to ElectroBOOM. I didn’t think anyone would take it seriously, but added a
/sto my comment.