What's up everyone? Welcome to The Durbin Compound! If we're meeting for the first time, my name is
Devin Durbin. I'm here to bring you the tools, tips, and tricks to make you more self-sufficient.
So on today's episode, we're going over an Awesome Tool Under $30.
This Klein Tools LCD display tester is pretty much awesome in every single way. I'm going to show you
all the features that I possibly can today. And I'm going to give
you an in-depth review of this product and just why it's worth your money. Stay tuned.
All right guys, let's get down to the real reason why we're here. So the
best thing about this tool is that it is 100% standalone with two AAA batteries.
So you're not requiring any power from the outlet for this thing to work. So you go ahead and power it up
and you have to hold the button. It powers up and if there's no power whatsoever it will say OPEN HOT.
So if you are sticking it in the outlet and it still says OPEN HOT well that means you have no power.
So once inserted this thing tells you that you have 122 volts AC, 123, and your wiring is CORRECT.
So what I wanted to do today is show you guys exactly what this looks like when problems
start to arise and what you will see on the LCD display. So we're going to go ahead and take off
our ground here. And it shows us OPEN GRD, but we still have our 123 volts AC. So it shows our fault here.
Let's go ahead and hook our ground back up and take our neutral off. So it says OPEN NEU >30 VAC.
Now, there is still voltage flowing through the power to ground.
So we are getting still some voltage, but it's probably only about 60 volts AC
coming through on the neutral leg here. So let's see what it looks like when we
reverse our neutral and ground. So now we have HOT/ NEU REV. She's still showing 123 volts AC,
showing our fault here. So the next best thing about this bad boy is that you can pull it out
and it does hold your reading for 10 seconds. So if you were oriented in a place where... well, now
that we have the ground up and you have to plug it in, you're not going to place your head on the
floor to look at it. You can simply plug it in, get your reading, flip it over, and bam! It's here on the screen.
Piece of cake! I love that hold feature. And if you were needing to go from outlet to outlet
very quickly, in a home inspection or something like that, you can simply press the power button
and it will reset, ready for your next outlet. So let's go ahead and get everything back here to normal.
And we will look at another problem that might arise where this thing will definitely shine.
So, you know if you've ever used these LED simple ones, with a little cheat sheet on the front, these are great.
But there are some situations where you can run into a problem. So let's just say that
somewhere along the line a neutral and a ground got severed. So now we take away our ground and
we take away our neutral. So now we have no LEDs on this thing. It just flat out doesn't work. But when
you come in with your non-contact voltage tester, you're showing voltage at this outlet. What's up with that?
So, you have voltage at the outlet, but this thing isn't working. So now you assume that
maybe this is a bad tool all around. I don't know. So that's where this standalone Klein tester comes
in great because now it shows we have an OPEN GRD NEU. So we only have a hot wire
and it's coming in greater than 30 volts, but it's showing exactly what our fault is.
Unlike our tester that requires its power from the outlet. So, the greatest thing about this thing is that
it is standalone. So, boom! Now let's go inside. I'll show you guys exactly how this thing tests a GFCI outlet.
All right guys, now we're in the bathroom. I'm going to show you exactly how this works on a GFCI outlet.
We're going to go ahead and hit test. And it shows us the exact time that it took to
trip the GFCI, .01 seconds. So this is great for any kind of inspection and testing these GFCI outlets.
And I love that hold feature which just in case it is oriented in a different way you can't see it,
well guess what? You can pull it out and see it right here on the screen. So, there's that feature.
All right guys, last thing I wanted to test was the accuracy of this tool. So, of course, when you
get anything, you want to be able to rely on them. And accuracy is something that's nice to have,
so you're not guessing. Right? So let's go ahead and test our outlet here. It says 122.7 and
our outlet tester says 122. I'm happy with that accuracy right there. And for a prosumer,
or a DIYer, a beginner, an apartment owner, really just pretty much anybody that would ever want to
test an outlet, this will suffice for 99% of the things that you want to do. If you're trying to
do anything more and you need a multimeter, well, guess what? You should own a multimeter.
But, if you're just testing outlets, this is a great option. So, let's go ahead and wrap this video up.
All right guys, I hope you enjoyed that video. At a $20
price tag on this Klein tester, I think it is absolutely 100% worth your money.
It really doesn't matter who you are. Twenty dollars is a steal for the product that gives
you this much flexibility when testing outlets. So I highly recommend this tool. That's why it's
on an Awesome Tools Under $30 playlist. If you like my video, well, guess what? Give me a thumbs up. Or a thumbs down.
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