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1. Safety Rules
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This tester has been designed with your safety in mind. However,
no design can completely protect against incorrect use. Electrical
circuits can be dangerous and/or lethal when lack of caution or poor
safety practices are used.
Do not carry out field measurements on either the power system
grounding, during periods of forecast lightning activity, in areas that
encompass the station being measured or of the power network
connected to the station being measured. In the event that lightning
occurs, stop all testing and isolate any temporarily installed test
spikes.
Preparations for testing of power system grounding can leave
personnel vulnerable to exposure caused by faults at or fed from the
system under test, transferred potentials from remote test grounds,
and inadvertent line energisations.
While the probability of the occurrence of one of these events is low,
personnel safety will, nevertheless, be enhanced by the following:
When working near high tension systems rubber gloves and shoes
should be worn.
Work on clean, dry crushed rock or an insulating blanket.
Avoid bare hand to hand contact between the tester and extended
test leads.
When using the tester with test leads, ensure that they are safe and
properly authorized
Disconnect the tester from any external circuit when changing the
batteries.
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