Sperry Instruments GFI6302 GFCI Outlet / Receptacle Tester, Standard 120V AC Outlets, 7 Visual Indication / Wiring Legend, Home & Professional Use, Yellow & Black

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Sperry Instruments GFI6302 GFCI Outlet / Receptacle Tester, Standard 120V AC Outlets, 7 Visual Indication / Wiring Legend, Home & Professional Use, Yellow & Black

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DURABLE: Hi-Impact Resistant ABS housing with soft over-molded rubber grips with a compact ergonomic design (GFI6302 and VD6504)
QUICKLY READ: Bright color-coded neon lights for easy visual indication (GFI6302)
TESTING CAPABILITY: Standard 3-Wire and GFCI protected 120Volt AC Outlets. Frequency (Hertz) 60Hz (GFI6302)
GFCI FUNCTION: Tests GFI Outlets and standard outlets that are wired in series with GFCI outlets (multiple outlets in kitchen or bath)
RATED: 10 ft Drop and 250 lb Crush, CAT Rating III 300V, C-UL US, CE-Marking and recognized by Occupational Safety Hazards Association (OSHA) as an National Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). 10 ft Drop and 250 lb Crush
WARRANTY: Sperry Instruments Backed Limited Lifetime Warranty

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A great tool with a useful GFCI test button Great compact tester. I wanted something small that would allow me to quickly test that all the outlets in a new house were correctly wired as the previous owner did some basement finishing work on their own that had not been done under the proper permits. This tool gives me the piece of mind that every outlet is setup correctly and that I won't have any surprises in the future.Since it doesn't have it's own power there's not much it can tell you if the hot is missing, as the unit won't be able to turn on at all... but if that's the case you're going to be fixing the outlet anyways so to me this isn't a big deal.I also really like that it has the GFCI test button. Some people may think that this isn't useful since GFCI outlets always have a test button on the outlet itself, but the beauty of this tester is you can use it on outlets further down the circuit that are protected by the same GFCI. For instance, if you have a GFCI on your kitchen counter you can plug this into a different outlet on your kitchen counter and verify that when you press the button on the tester the GFCI on the other outlet trips.This is also useful as a quick way to determine which breaker turns of a particular circuit. Test it on a known good circuit, plug it in to your target outlet, make sure it lights up, then verify that it turns off with the breaker you expect.At this price everybody should throw this useful tool into their bag. 5Receptacle TesterAfter being an electrician for over 39 years & being an electrical inspector for over 15 years I have found that this tester is the best I have ever used, & I have used them all!5Badly placed GFI test buttonThis is a review of the GFI6302 GFCI Outlet / Receptacle Tester, not of the non-contact voltage detector that was once sold in combination with the receptacle tester.The GFI test button on the tester is poorly place. It is easy to accidentally depress it with your thumb when you plug-in or remove the tester from a receptacle. The button doesn't click or give any tactile feedback to indicate that you pressed it.The large lenses over the LEDs reflect other light sources and can make it difficult to know whether the result is from the LED or from a reflection Sometimes readings are ambiguous. There are situations where an LED lights dimly and it's uncertain whether to interpret it as on or off.3Very Hard to Tell Which Lights are on. It turned out to be.....I have been using this little checker for the past two years around the house. It's a tough-built device but so confusing and hard to tell which lights are on. I thought it was because those light bulbs are dim and also the light bulb compartments are connected internally which let light escape to the next compartment and lights up slightly. After struggled so many occasions, I finally decided to saw the light compartment off so that I can see the bare light bulbs. It would make the checker vulnerable for dropping or hitting against other tools inside my toolbox but I thought it s better this way because at least I can see the lights well. It turned out that it wasn t only because the lights were dim and the compartments were separated by transparent plastic, but actually all light bulbs turn on when there is power. Yes, of course, some of the light is brighter than others to try to indicate the status but no wonder it was hard to tell which lights were on. See the picture. This supposed to indicate open ground so only the middle orange light should be on, but as you can tell other two lights on each side are also on slightly. This is bad! Remember I had already sawed off the cover so what you see is the bare light bulbs. No wonder I struggled so much and I now feel very stupid trying to make use of this poorly designed checker.This has Amazon s Choice label and we tend to think it s a good product but not necessary!Dear Sperry Instruments, if you have a better product now. Send it over. I will test it for you for a review. That s if only you are confident to satisfy my high standard!1Cheap and functional tester... This is a well built and functional tester. Not only does it feel rugged, but it is also half of the cost as one from the local hardware store. Looking through the reviews here, I am actually shocked that many reviewers here are complaining about the "ambiguous lights." While it can be better documented, the weak lights themselves convey important information about the outlets you are testing.In many old houses, the ground connection is either disconnected or connected to a poor ground source, like a screw that may not be truly grounded. These lights allow you to visually see how good the ground connection is when compared to the normal L-N (Line to Neutral) connection, so if the third light is dimmer, then the L-G (Line to Ground) connection is most likely faulty (it probably will not be able to carry the same amount of current that would be required to trip a device or to carry power surges to ground).In the pictures I have attached, you can see I have two weak ground outlets, each with a different 3rd light intensity. On the first one where the third light is almost extinguished, the AC voltage between L-G is 46.66V AC. The other outlet tested had a more lit third light that is still dim, but you can see that it registered a slightly higher L-G voltage of 97.1V AC. This is still not up to par with the normal L-N voltage, which should come around 120V (standard US AC voltage). As you can see, the lights allow you to quickly visualize any ground faults without busting out a multimeter and sticking multimeter probes into live outlets.If you are testing outlets often, a non-contact voltage pen tester may also be a worthy investment. Although you are not able to test L-G using this method, it offers a quick and easy way to test which side is live without even plugging anything in. The one I have allows for an intensity reading and reads red on the right side (hot), while the neutral side reads green. This corresponds to the reading of the outlet tester (short side = hot, long side = neutral).The GFCI test button works well, and you can see that it was able to trip my built-in GFCI just fine. I find that this type of testing to be more practical rather than just relying on the Test button on the GFCI itself. You can also see that that outlet (which is properly wired), has the same light intensity for both the 2nd and 3rd light.I am very happy with this purchase. No complaints about it so far.5Defective JunkWell, you get what you pay for. It's cheap but useless. It showed every single outlet in my house as having an open ground. It also tripped every GFCI outlet as soon as I inserted it - i.e., before I pushed the GCFI Test button. For curiosity's sake, I gave it to a friend and asked her to try it at her house. Guess what? Every single outlet in her house shows as "open ground' as well, and it tripped every GFCI outlet just by being inserted into the outlet.Do ourself a favor and do like I did - take the helpful advice offered in other reviews and pay a little more for the Sperry Instruments HGT6520,, which is a one-LED-per-condition product. I bought one after asking Amazon for a refund on this cheaper model The Sperry Instruments HGT6520 accurately indicated that my outlets were wired correctly, and the GFCI tester works as intended.1Nice Tester but Care Must be Exercised in Understanding LightsOut of the package, with minimal understanding of operation, this one isn't a good choice, here's why. After buying this (and it's a lovely, practical, pleasing design), the very first use I experienced a receptacle similar to one that another reviewer claimed he failed a Home Inspector Test because of, he thought the receptacle wiring was good, the instructor's receptacle tester showed an open ground.With this tester, a receptacle, with an open ground, lights one light brightly, one slightly less bright, and one dim. I bought this tester to replace one that I thought I lost but has since shown up. It only lights one light for an open ground. As we're working to get a contractor to rewire a house, I mentioned this effect to several electricians, and their socket testers, different models, only lit one light too. I purchased another receptacle tester on Amazon, it has 5 lights, but only one lights for each defect, and a green light for good. It's a keeper. Big, but I love it.My new one, the "Sperry Instruments HGT6520, Stop Shock II - Single LED Indicator, GFCI Outlet Tester" available on Amazon, has multiple LEDs, only one lights for any one condition, the LEDs are red to denote a defect and green for correct wiring. In addition, the tester requires less than 10 ohms resistance to denote a normal ground, so poor ground conditions are flagged too, not just missing grounds.Mind you, some reviewers here are fond of this model (the one this review is about) but careful attention needs to be given to the brightness of the lights. One article online said not to use any receptacle testers, but I disagree. As an industrial electrician, we have these, but we usually use a voltage tester, but you have to know what to expect, and exposed voltage tester lead ends are hot when plugged in. Receptacle testers work just like using a plug, so it's safer. There's one site online that has an extended chart of conditions, and what to expect from the lights, including dim lights. It's worth the effort to find, it would make this tester easier to use and understand.2Simple But Excellent Tool Sperry Instruments GFI6302 GFCI Outlet / Receptacle TesterTo use this tool just plug it into a wall receptacle. LED's will light up on the end of the tool letting you know if the receptacle is properly wired. Key codes are written on both sides of the tool to let you know what the lights mean.I installed additional electric wall receptacles in my 1945 townhouse and found multiple ground wires in the walls, some of which were useless although they showed a 'ghost current' on my multimeter. This tool allowed me to quickly find the proper wires, making the job so much easier. Testing existing receptacles around the house showed that some of them had been improperly grounded for many years - likely dating back to the 70's when the TH was renovated. Excellent tool, and highly recommended. 5Very useful and handy, but troubling lack of certain indicator possibilitiesI really do like this device, now that I've figured it out, i know what to expect of it. I took off a star for the lack of clarification on the device about odd readings (readings that are not described)So, I've seen some reviews about light bleeding from one light to another, giving a somewhat confusing reading. This isn't light just bleeding through plastic, the bulbs in there are indeed lighting up but very faintly. I rewired a bunch of outlets, and in the process learned a few things about this device:-It's made very nice, feels good-It Cannot diagnose every problem-The chart does Not describe every possible indication you may see-It Does let you know overall if something is wrong.So, what i mean is that on the device it shows you a list of all possible light configurations. However, two situations are notably missing: all lights on, lights partially on. I've encountered situations where all lights illuminate, but the chart doesn't show this situation. I've also seen variations of lights being on, but only slightly. This is where i think some folks thought it was due to one bright light bleeding into the next light making it seem like it might be on, but it's really an indicator of some other issue. Either way, unless you get two solid orange lights, something isn't right.You might think that they would mention this in the manual. Nope. Nothing. That's really unacceptable for a device intended for electrical work.Overall, this device indicates two things reliably: Everything is OK, or something is Wrong. If you get anything but two solid orange lights, something to some extent is wrong. Even if i get solid light indications, i check everything again with a multimeter. You can get decent ones for around $25, and they will tell you exactly what's going on with the outlet. Why not just get a multimeter? That's certainly an option, but my preference is to have the little tester for blanket sweep checks of everything, marking the bad outlets, then going back and checking the bad ones with the multimeter to see exactly what's going on.Bonus round:Testing an outlet with a multimeter is easy: set it to voltage reading and: red probe to the (hot)small outlet slit, black to the (neutral)big slit. should be 120(ish) volts, then do red to small slit, black to ground (bottom outlet hole), should also be 120v. Then one probe to big slit, the other to ground, should be zero or near zero reading.4Waste of money.I first saw how many reviews it had and the stars it had and thought this would be a good item to get. I mean how can all these 1k reviews be wrong? When I first received the 3 sperry testers I was super excited. The size was perfect, compact and it doesn't block the outlet either above or below of the one you plug it into. They felt solid and the rubber molding on the sides was a nice feature. I go to plug it into an outlet and Major disapointment. It was so difficult to tell which lights were on. The small bulbs in there are not bright so they are hard to see during the day time and worse of all the light of one bulb will bleed into the compartment of the bulb next to it making it seem like the other bulb is on also on. I believe a tool should help you solve problems, not add the problem of then trying to decipher what code its throwing with the lights. So I start plugging in the other 2 sperry testers and find out one of the testers has a bulb that won't light. Bummer but hey it happens things get dropped during shipping etc. But what was really concerning to me was the bad reading for open ground. I plug the tester into an outlet that has no ground hooked up to it and it would read as correctly wired. I was already going to return because of how difficult it was to read it due to the bad lighs but this was really reassuring I was doing the right thing sending it back. Trust me, I am not the type of person to send back items for something minor things but this just adds problems. I recommend you go for a different tester.1GFCI tester, a must have for home owners Inexpensive, simple, compact, and easy to use. I like that it has the status light legend printed on both sides and is shown in the reverse orientation on the bottom so if your outlet is mounted upside down you can easily determine what the status lights mean.The one issue I had, and why I marked it down by one star, is that they don t provide instructions in the packaging. Instead they included a note that says go to their web site to download the instructions which means you have to get online and search their site to find instructions for this model tester. What really annoyed me was that the instructions make no mention of how to use the GFIC test button and if pressing it on a non-GFCI protected circuit is dangerous to me, the tester or the circuit. I had to go online to research this to give myself a warm fuzzy about how that works.So, how to use the GFCI test button Plug in the tester and push its test button. If the power goes off, the outlet is protected by a GFCI breaker or outlet and is working. Press the reset button on the outlet or breaker to restore power. If the power doesn't go off, replace the GFCI or the outlet you are testing is not protected by a GFCI.How does the test button work and will it harm a non-GFCI circuit?When the test button is pressed a small ground fault (current flow) is created between the hot and ground conductor. If the GFCI is performing properly it notes the differential in current flow between the neutral and hot conductor and break the circuit. The ground fault current is low enough the it won t harm or trip the circuity breaker on a non-GFCI protected circuit. 4If you look both ways crossing a one way street. Then you'll want to check your receptacles.It's never a bad idea to check.Homeowners often bite off more than they can chew. Not knowing what they are doing is not an obstacle.It is easy to get one's wires crossed.Wiring is supposed to be color coded. White goes to the larger slot. Black goes to the smaller slot. Bare copper goes to that third prong. It's supposed to be foolproof.Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently motivated fool with power tools.I checked an extension cord my wife was about to use.The tester indicated that the black and white (large slot and small slot) were crossedI assumed that the former owner had miss wired the receptacle.The wall receptacle was fine.It was the 30 year old power strip. I had used it for years, never know that I had dodged a bulletIt's always nice to be able to test the ground fault receptacles too.4Saved me from potential electrical nightmares!My wife and I were recently shopping for a new house (our first home, no less), and I brought this product along to make sure that the "updated" electrical systems in the 90-100 year houses were truly updated and not just grounded outlets slapped onto non-grounded wiring. This device quickly and accurately let me know which houses had major problems which potentially saved us tons of money in the long run. Would recommend to anybody who needs to test outlets that they have installed, or to test outlets in potential future homes.P.S., I understand that testing the outlets in somebody else's home is probably borderline unethical, but I think that selling a home on the pretense that the electrical is updated when it actually isn't is far worse!5

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