I have an inspector that is requiring a megger test on a house that got sheetrocked before it got inspected.
I just need to know if I'm doing this correctly. Here is the tester I'm using
I am disconnecting the hot and neutral from the service panel and connecting the neutral to the black lead and the hot wire to the red lead. The entire circuit is tied through using wirenuts and no devices are installed. When I turn the megger to 500v and push the test button I get a result of >2000 with no change in value no matter how long I hold down the test button. Is this an expected result? Even if I don't have any wires hooked up to the tester and push the test button I get the exact same results. I don't have the instructions for this tester but from what I can gather from Google searches this is the only way I can find to do the test. Is this correct or am I way off on this one?
I just need to know if I'm doing this correctly. Here is the tester I'm using
I am disconnecting the hot and neutral from the service panel and connecting the neutral to the black lead and the hot wire to the red lead. The entire circuit is tied through using wirenuts and no devices are installed. When I turn the megger to 500v and push the test button I get a result of >2000 with no change in value no matter how long I hold down the test button. Is this an expected result? Even if I don't have any wires hooked up to the tester and push the test button I get the exact same results. I don't have the instructions for this tester but from what I can gather from Google searches this is the only way I can find to do the test. Is this correct or am I way off on this one?