Bob Engelhardt wrote:


The plugs are fully enclosed once they are plugged into the meter.

** Well yeah, but the shock hazard occurs when handling a plug - trying to put into the meter - when the tip end is attached to a source of high voltage.

I can't imagine myself attaching a lead to a high voltage source before
it is attached to a meter. Or switching the meter connection after it's
attached.


** But you can imagine the plug coming out of the meter unintentionally, then being replaced while "hot" or touching ground/chassis and causing a massive short.


Maybe it's something one starts doing when the plugs are fully enclosed.


** Shrouded plugs make it safe to leave probes attached to a high voltage or high current source.

Been a standard feature of any decent DMM for decades now.


..... Phil