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POWER_PIG

POWER_PIG

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zog said:
Never been in an attic (For work), or under a house. I do acceptance testing of power systems for mostly nuclear power plants, but also commercial power plants, steel mills, and heavy industrial.

Havent seen a simpson since the navy

I carry over a million dollars in test equipment in my truck to nearly every job.
Here is what is on my truck.
Doble M4000 (Pf test set, run by Panasonic toughbook laptop)
PD sensors and test set
VLF hipot
Tan Delta module
2 DLRO's
10kV megger
2 1000V meggers
Priamary injection test set, 50kA
About 10 seconday injection test sets
2 TTR's (Single and 3 phase)
Winding resistance test set
Manta relay test set
Arbittier 92A
Fluke 87
Fluke RMS PQ meters
EBITE battery impenance test set
AMEC fall of potential test set
Portable DGA analysier, sample bottles and syringes
40 Cal flash suit
HRC 2 kit
Class 0 and 2 gloves
2/0 Groud cables (3 sets, bus, cable, and ball stud clamps)
Generators, light stands, cords, etc. ..
Some other stuff I cant think of right now

I have a trailer that I pull to rebuild jobs, 40 FT, Air conditioned with
480 Generator
Bead blaster
Parts cleaner
Tumbler
BPS
Metal fab tools
Stocked with breaker parts
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O wow!!
Very impressive,,,,,,,,Im just an electrician, not a breaker tech.
that expalins our difference in opinions considering tools,,,,,, bless ya brother and be safe (im still keeping my crappy meters :smile: )
 
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steveng

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zog said:
Never been in an attic (For work), or under a house. I do acceptance testing of power systems for mostly nuclear power plants, but also commercial power plants, steel mills, and heavy industrial.

Havent seen a simpson since the navy

I carry over a million dollars in test equipment in my truck to nearly every job.
Here is what is on my truck.
Doble M4000 (Pf test set, run by Panasonic toughbook laptop)
PD sensors and test set
VLF hipot
Tan Delta module
2 DLRO's
10kV megger
2 1000V meggers
Priamary injection test set, 50kA
About 10 seconday injection test sets
2 TTR's (Single and 3 phase)
Winding resistance test set
Manta relay test set
Arbittier 92A
Fluke 87
Fluke RMS PQ meters
EBITE battery impenance test set
AMEC fall of potential test set
Portable DGA analysier, sample bottles and syringes
40 Cal flash suit
HRC 2 kit
Class 0 and 2 gloves
2/0 Groud cables (3 sets, bus, cable, and ball stud clamps)
Generators, light stands, cords, etc. ..
Some other stuff I cant think of right now

I have a trailer that I pull to rebuild jobs, 40 FT, Air conditioned with
480 Generator
Bead blaster
Parts cleaner
Tumbler
BPS
Metal fab tools
Stocked with breaker parts
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Hmmmnn..
lets, see, with all this equipment, I bet you can pay your helpers well, hmmm... :D jk:wink:

thanks for trying to keep us safe Zog's you da man!
 
zog

zog

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Charlotte, NC
coulter said:
I suspect you have to pick an appliction outside of the meter limitations to get that to happen.

carl
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Well sure but they also may not work below 100V and OSHA requires ESWP's and shock protection to be used>50V.
 
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jim dungar

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PE (Retired) - Power Systems
zog said:
I dont care what you use but the wiggy type meters are not allowed anymore by many companies, most dont meet the IEC CAt III requirements, NONE of them meet the CAT IV requirements, they can give false readings and SQ-D stopped making them because of these safety concerns.

This topic has already been discussed at length in this forum. Do a search, and be safe.
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According to the press release I read, Square D claims that it is due to manufacturing costs and redesign issues. Have some people been injured with them of course, just as some people have been hurt with digital multi-meters.

Wigginton, Square D, and Klein "Wiggys" are all the same device (based on age). Square D bought the rights to the Wiggington name 40-50yrs ago.

Used incorrectly/inappropriately every meter can be dangerous.
 
K8MHZ

K8MHZ

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Michigan. It's a beautiful peninsula, I've looked
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Electrician
zog said:
You are wrong and you have been lucky.

From training thousands of electrician over the past 2 decades I have found that most electricians carry one of these and less than 1% understand how they work. Most do not usderstand the dangers of the false negatives they can give.

Everyone who has one of these needs to read this attachment.
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I don't think the author understands how they work, either.

According to the text, our body is being used in some way to form a capacitive coupling with the tracer. I disagree. I use my Greenlee tracer to trace circuits by turning it on and sticking it in a receptacle. It keeps beeping when I let go and walk away.

Inductive, perhaps?
 
iaov

iaov

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Rhinelander WI
zog said:
Never been in an attic (For work), or under a house. I do acceptance testing of power systems for mostly nuclear power plants, but also commercial power plants, steel mills, and heavy industrial.

Havent seen a simpson since the navy

I carry over a million dollars in test equipment in my truck to nearly every job.
Here is what is on my truck.
Doble M4000 (Pf test set, run by Panasonic toughbook laptop)
PD sensors and test set
VLF hipot
Tan Delta module
2 DLRO's
10kV megger
2 1000V meggers
Priamary injection test set, 50kA
About 10 seconday injection test sets
2 TTR's (Single and 3 phase)
Winding resistance test set
Manta relay test set
Arbittier 92A
Fluke 87
Fluke RMS PQ meters
EBITE battery impenance test set
AMEC fall of potential test set
Portable DGA analysier, sample bottles and syringes
40 Cal flash suit
HRC 2 kit
Class 0 and 2 gloves
2/0 Groud cables (3 sets, bus, cable, and ball stud clamps)
Generators, light stands, cords, etc. ..
Some other stuff I cant think of right now

I have a trailer that I pull to rebuild jobs, 40 FT, Air conditioned with
480 Generator
Bead blaster
Parts cleaner
Tumbler
BPS
Metal fab tools
Stocked with breaker parts
Click to expand...
You've got almost as much stuff as mdshunk!!:D
 
jrannis

jrannis

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Location
Fort Lauderdale/ Miami
zog said:
You should toss that wiggy, not allowed on CATIII systems anymore.
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Really?? Who wold use a wiggy on a CAT anything system?

I think we can all agree that they are a nice troublshooting tool to tell if the power is ON, not to tell if the circuit is de-energized.
 
zog

zog

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Charlotte, NC
jrannis said:
Really?? Who wold use a wiggy on a CAT anything system?

I think we can all agree that they are a nice troublshooting tool to tell if the power is ON, not to tell if the circuit is de-energized.
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I have seen them used on CATIII systems many, many time in industrial plants. Many of those same plants have at least 1 incident involving a wiggy.
 
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