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The answer should be no.
However, if you make a patch cord that has no connection to the EGC pin in the plug and bring out an EGC on the socket end of the cord so that the EGC pin to the tester can be connected to a ground point somewhere, then you can make it work for testing the reversal of neutral and hot.
However, I can use my Fluke 27 to test if hot is connected to the correct terminal where there is no EGC as follows:
Fluke in AC volts. One meter lead goes into the wall socket. The other lead is in free space or I touch the probe tip.
In my basement hot to lead in free space reads about 18 V. When I touch the free space probe about 60 V. Difference is because of the difference in capacitance to earth. The neutral side is about 0.8 to free space, and to me about 1.5 V. The EGC to free space is about 0.3 V, and to me about 0.8 V.
In my living room, wood floor,
hot 18 and 37 V,
neutral 0.2 and 1.5,
EGC 0.8 and 3.5.
If the measurement is made to a good EGC that goes directly to the main panel, then:
neutral to a good separate EGC is 0.25 V,
and EGC at living room outlet to good separate EGC is 0.1 V.
It should be noted that I have an oscillation on these small signals resulting from the carrier signal from my TED energy monitoring system. i also have numerous other noise sources producing signals on the EGC lines.
The living room voltage being higher on the EGC is a little surprising, but my EGCs are about #15 wire vs #12 for neutral. That was standard in the early 60s. I do not have a real good explanation, and I do not plan to look for one currently.
However, this technique should be adequate to test for the hot lead, but it is better to use a reference wire to a known good ground reference.
Functionally this does about the same thing as a pencil type voltage tester that works on capacitive coupling.
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