What is happening with these electrics?

How do you know there is power there? Do those sockets work with other appliances? If so, what type?

I keep these in my mobile toolboxes:

which is a cheap, quick, and dirty socket tester that shows all the possible connection faults (but of course not the clever stuff that a proper electrician would test).

Perhaps these two don't have the earth wire fitted? Best have a look.

Or they're on another circuit?

Actually they are quite a handy tool to have. It will not show a NE reversal but an RCD powering the socket will!

I have the Kewteck Kewcheck103 (about £13) and use it a lot. It's main advantage for me is that it bleeps. Brilliant for identifying a circuit on an unlabelled CU without having to keep running and looking at the display.

Does anything else run in those sockets? Brian

Yes I think I'd be in there and looking for carbonised socket parts myself. Brian

Quite right about NE reversal, my mistake. I have PME so I need a screwdriver to check that!

I have the kewcheck 107, it can check reversal (by using a finger as a capacitive earth reference) also gives a R/A/G check of the earth loop, and a basic RCD functionality check.

Clever. If I was starting over, I'd be tempted, but mine probably only comes out once a year now.

Fluke have recalled their range of this type of tester.

Yes, I noticed this 'voluntary' recall

Probably less painful than a cattle prod though :-)

Interesting, I can't quite decide whether the cheap type that I posted might behave the same.

The final Socket'n'See type that he tested, looks identical to the Kewcheck107

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You can buy things called energy meters which you plug in then plug an a= ppliance into that. They're intended to work out how much an appliance = costs to run, but would also be handy to sense a voltage drop when you p= lug in a heater.

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Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?

I cannot find any reference that it can do a NE reversal check.

You're right, it checks for upstream (e.g at meter) L/N reversal, not N/E reversal.

So it's a piece of s*it then?

The technical term for a piece of s*it is "apprentice".

They cannot perform the simplest tasks you ask them to do (parents need shooting).

There is nothing wrong with a 107 tester.

Were you ever an apprentice, or did you miss that stage of maturity?

Why would that change the fact he stated?