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philthespark · 3rd Feb 2018, 10:40 pm

Very true, though I bet they didn't change as often as they do today, lol. I remember when I first started out, you had a megger if you were lucky, nowadays I have so many meters it's untrue. back in the day you proved earth with a test lamp, stick one side on live and the other on the thing you wanted to know was earthed, if it lit it was earthed! Now it's loop testing and measuring down to 0.0? of an ohm, personally I was much happier with the test lamp, life was certainly easier, and you had less gear to get pinched!

3rd Feb 2018, 10:40 pm	#17
philthespark Pentode Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK. Posts: 158	Re: 'Megger' Circuit Testing Ohmmeter (early 1960s) Very true, though I bet they didn't change as often as they do today, lol. I remember when I first started out, you had a megger if you were lucky, nowadays I have so many meters it's untrue. back in the day you proved earth with a test lamp, stick one side on live and the other on the thing you wanted to know was earthed, if it lit it was earthed! Now it's loop testing and measuring down to 0.0? of an ohm, personally I was much happier with the test lamp, life was certainly easier, and you had less gear to get pinched!