kamps
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What device do you use to test 13,000 volts with? megger? hot stick?
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A voltmeter...
I think a megger works with DC voltage and doesn't measure voltage but I admit I never used one.
A hot stick is worthless to measure voltage since it doesn't measure anything except the presence of voltage and it is often incorrect.
iceworm
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I've used:
Chance phasing set (I've only used the analog - but I've seen a digital). The handles are 6 feet long - really combersome in switchgear
Linemen's Testing Lab
the 15 KV unit is only 30 inches long. Really handy. I like it. If it doesn't flash, the voltage is less than 110V. Pre-test, post-test are a 120v receptacleThis is one of the useless ones that Dennis doesnt't like.
AMEC Non-Contact High Voltage Detector
This is another beeper. 240V up to 275KV. Add your own stick so you can get a short one for the 15kv stuff. I got this one for the substations where we take the service at 69kv. Works great. This is another one of the useless one.
ice
Chance phasing set (I've only used the analog - but I've seen a digital). The handles are 6 feet long - really combersome in switchgear
Linemen's Testing Lab
the 15 KV unit is only 30 inches long. Really handy. I like it. If it doesn't flash, the voltage is less than 110V. Pre-test, post-test are a 120v receptacleThis is one of the useless ones that Dennis doesnt't like.
AMEC Non-Contact High Voltage Detector
This is another beeper. 240V up to 275KV. Add your own stick so you can get a short one for the 15kv stuff. I got this one for the substations where we take the service at 69kv. Works great. This is another one of the useless one.
ice
76nemo
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- Ogdensburg, NY
13KV?C, CAT level what??????????????:huh:
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
Electric fence tester:thumbsup::lol:
iceworm
Curmudgeon still using printed IEEE Color Books
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- North of the 65 parallel
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- EE (Field - as little design as possible)
I'm with ice here. I have a chance phasing set, which is essentially a voltmeter. It will give you approximate voltage according to the instructions. I have used one for over 20 years, and can say they are pretty close. Of course, with voltages this high, a couple hundred off isn't a big deal, unless you are zeroing regulators...( we used to use a 600 volt meter for these..)
I have a MRVD also, with a setting to test capacitance points on elbows. (analog)
I can stick this into a PMT, a switch cabinet, an overhead line, and have even used it in a 480 panel to test for voltage, not measure it accurately. Hubbell C403-0979 http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com/...4lib/operating-instructions/P403-2229revB.pdf
Not really wild about the digital, I like to see the needle move.
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
Just so I am clear. Your thinking of peeing on it
ice
No, I tried that test years ago. I don't think my dielectric strength is as good now, and I lost my Cat III rating!:weeping::lol:
kwired
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What are you trying to check. Your suggestions are two different types of tests.
kwired
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Long time - no reply from OP.
Hopefully reason isn't because he used wrong tool to test this voltage.
Hopefully reason isn't because he used wrong tool to test this voltage.
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