Bought one of these & it comes with a set of probes and also 1 red & 1 black croc clip ends, that appear to be interchangeable with the probe tips BUT I can't work out how to swap the probe end for the croc clip end?!
The croc ends do have an outer thread that suggests the probes might unscrew, and the croc ends could be screwed of in their place -but I can't suss how to do so... :-(
The brief instructions are (naturally) silent on the matter.
TIA
Jim K
It looks to me like the probe flange and tip unscrew, and be replaced by the crock clip as the diameter of the clip below the screw thread would fit nicely inside the larger diameter probe body? Maybe only the tip and not the flange unscrews.
Normally the leads simply have (shrouded) 4mm banana plugs on both ends. At the probe/clip end, they just plug into the back of the probe.
lack croc clip ends, that appear to be interchangeable with the probe tips BUT I can't work out how to swap the probe end for the croc clip end?!
crew, and the croc ends could be screwed of in their place -but I can't sus s how to do so... :-(
hard to see I know but the tip, flange & handle etc of the probes are a 1 o ne piece moulding - back to each cable's strain relief. The strain relief i s a slightly different colour and flexible, and it slides along the wire a mm or so but the wire does not want to rotate in the probe - as I would exp ect if there was a banana plug or similar in there at some point...
I have tried reasonable force just pulling out on the strain relief but see ing these cost 45 just for the leads I don;t want to knack em before I've u sed em!! (nor can I see why they should cost 45 for such an obviously non-i ntuitive design)
Cheers Jim K
black croc clip ends, that appear to be interchangeable with the probe tip s BUT I can't work out how to swap the probe end for the croc clip end?!
nscrew, and the croc ends could be screwed of in their place -but I can't s uss how to do so... :-(
one piece moulding - back to each cable's strain relief. The strain relief is a slightly different colour and flexible, and it slides along the wire a mm or so but the wire does not want to rotate in the probe - as I would e xpect if there was a banana plug or similar in there at some point...
eeing these cost 45 just for the leads I don;t want to knack em before I've used em!! (nor can I see why they should cost 45 for such an obviously non
-intuitive design)
mmm just noticed the leads I have are not just the same as those on Martind ale www site or the product photo (bought from Rapid Online (Ebay))
Given the leads alone cost 50 odd is there a cunning fake/inferior substitu tion racket going on here?
Jim K
I have some quite similar that may have come with either Megger Earth Loop Tester or an Insulation Tester. I think they unscrew but can't check as they aren't immediately to hand
Why not ring them?
I've emailed them and the ebay seller.... sigh :>(
Jim K
lots of googling later & I believe I have ID'd them as KEWTECH ACC016E.
Pic here (in right colours)
My apologies to Dave W the probe IS NOT a 1 piece moulding and the tip and flange does in fact unscrew, revealing the fuse held in a tubular moulding (as on the croc clip adaptors). Croc clips (with fuses added) screw into the resultant hole.
Q1 do I hang out for the proper (as advertised) Martindale leads or accept the (cheaper?) Kewtechs?
Q2 should the leads be the modern colours rather than red and black?
Jim K
Depends on what was advertised, and who sold it etc.
Is its use restricted to single phase AC mains?
Er yerss single phase domestic is, I believe, it's intended usage....
Jim K
Nor can I, unless they're made by rolling silicone on the thighs of mountain virgins.
In article , Grimly Curmudgeon scribeth thus
Thats what goes on in the Russ Andrews cable factory;!)...
and flange does in fact unscrew, revealing the fuse held in a tubular moulding (as on the croc clip adaptors). Croc clips (with fuses added) screw into the resultant hole.
accept the (cheaper?) Kewtechs?
I couldn't see the difference on that page, so found the Kewtech site, where there's no adequate description, only the following picture:
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