On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:51:53 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article . com, "volts500"
wrote:

Bottom line, the first rule to
doing electrical work is to TEST ALL WIRES, even equipment grounding
wires, for voltage with a known to be good tester.

The most important part of this sentence is the last five words: "known to be
good tester".

Before using the tester to verify that a wire is dead, test it on something
that's supposed to be *live* to make sure it lights up / reads voltage /
whatever. EVERY TIME.

Yes. How about testing THAT CIRCUIT both before and after turning it
off. I do that. Plug an outlet tester into that outlet, make sure it
works, and leave it there while turning it off (and make sure it goes
off).
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