Loading…
11
I thought tool checks were pointless until my meter lied
For a long time, I felt verifying my gear before a job just slowed me down. Then my voltage reader showed safe on a circuit that was actually hot. I nearly touched it and could have been hurt bad. Now I always double-check every tool, no matter what. That close call taught me a valuable lesson.
5 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In5 Comments
evan_burns6mo ago
Is double checking every tool actually necessary though? Modern gear is pretty reliable and that kind of false reading has to be rare. Spending all that extra time adds up over months, and most of the time you're just confirming what you already know. Sure, your scare was real, but making it a strict rule for every job seems like overkill to me.
8
drew9346mo ago
That voltage reader story is exactly why you check. Your gear might be reliable 99 times out of 100, but that one time it fails is the time you get hurt. The extra thirty seconds it takes to test on a known source or use a second tester is nothing compared to a hospital trip. Calling it overkill just means you haven't had your close call yet.
1