What Do You Know About Capacitive Voltage Sensors?

Find out what
these inexpensive, pocket-sized
devices can and can’t do

Tick tracer. Glow meter. Sniffer. They go by many names, but capacitive voltage sensors are all designed to do one thing: detect the presence of voltage in a wire or piece of equipment without actually making direct contact with the conductor or energized part. These test tools are popular because they're inexpensive, easy to use, and small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. Recently, however, more

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Anonymous (not verified)
on Jun 28, 2012

This concept is technically unsound. I have a tic-tester that will operate on a wooden ladder . This is crazy.

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