In the past, you may have seen me doing electrical connections for equipment using the Cliff Quick Test The Cliff Quick Test is a device that's designed for workshops and it's got Live Earth and neutral and two knife switches effectively blade connectors with a fuse, a new indicator and when you open it up, it isolates the power completely. Let you plug something into this. here is a set of lovely fairy lights. The idea of this device is that if you work in a maintenance department of a factory or perhaps in a test Workshop then you can connect means equipment that doesn't come with a plug as standard and when you lure the lid down, it safely connects your device without major risk of electric shock.

Not really designed for home users because people, if they get used to plug into these, can stick the wires in their own place and end up sticking Earth into the live and that's not good. However, you may also have noticed I Occasionally feature Let me grab the Hoppy the Hoppy an electrical tester that I frequently use that monitors voltage and current and it also has electrical test points. Uh, in the form of these four to eight volt speaker connectors being operated directly at 240 volts. Let me shove these wires in such that there is bare copper sticking out the top and note that if you ever use something like this, literally recommend it.

Uh, don't ever connect wires while it's live because if you disconnect wire like say, for instance, I'm disconnecting this one now that will pass current through the load and you could get an electric shock off that wire. Just be aware of that. Also, you shouldn't really be putting your fingers near a 48 volt connector connected to 240 volts. But while looking for a complete different product, I came across some great Chinese electrical test equipment.

The first thing I found was the luxury version which I featured in a previous video which has the mains, voltage speaker terminals plus also the lamp holders. Reasonable enough that you can just push a lamp into and it test them. but I also had these test points that you could plug probes into. However, I was really looking for the simpler one and I did finally find it.

and here it is. This turns out to be a really common piece of factory test equipment. It comes with a non-polarized plug and a single pole switch which does not board well for safety at all because it means that if you plug this in and it is actually because I've tested them, you turned the correct part. It means that even with off one of these connections could be live as it is, their live is the black connection and neutral is The Red Connection that doesn't work in many other countries have which have a red live and a black neutral.

However, if I stick my theory lights into this now and I really do recommend using these things I Just find them quite amusing because they basically show how electrical standards the difference between different between countries. It means that you can now test your fair light just by stuffing them in here. But what if you want to connect more fairy lights? Well, you go for the luxury version which has the double speaker terminal in it so you can connect two circuits or more if you twist the wires. I Guess like no standards apply here again if you were to ever use one of these and I don't recommend it.

unplug it before I'm disconnecting wires just like I didn't do. Yeah. Anyway, let's get these out the way and open it. Where is the spudger and we'll see what the construction is like.

It's not going to be that complicated because ultimately it is just a speaker terminal and a switch. It does find me an indicator we have live coming onto the switch uh, and we have the neutral going on to the neon contact and the output in the middle and these components are just basically satin loose. The wire does not look good quality. This is also not a surprise and that is held in place by little supports here that just when you clip it together, it just pushes against those.

That kind of makes sense because when you're pushing down to push wires in or press the spring-loaded connections, it puts all the way against the bottom plate and means it's not theoretically going to pop off. Intriguing. Uh, the other version? let's pop this off. I Was also hoping to find a three-phase version.

the 380 volt version I did not find it. Um, they have the neutral passing through on the noon connection. they've got the live green, the switch connection, then the other connection come out here, so that's reasonable enough. Uh, what connection do they have live going out to? They have live going to the red this time, so it's kind of random.

red or black. It's just going to be one of those two. Uh, that's quite neat in a way. These pillars the same size, so they just optimize the base plate for the particular connector.

They look pretty much the same size, but there we go. Interesting. and these do seem to be widely used in factories for connections. temporary connections.

I Guess Ultimately, well, hopefully they give them proper training also. Uh, in China They don't seem to really have much of a ground. it's just basically two phases, and often you see people in Chinese demonstration videos messing around the wires and at some points their bodies are alive at full their full mean Supply which is 220 volts. but because there's no reference to ground, they don't get a shock.

Well, until one day they touch something grounded, so that's it. Quite interesting. Quite cute in a way. I Find these quite pleasing just because they are really not up to our standards, but that makes them quite a fun thing indeed.